Republican Senator Larry Craig: Focus on The Family's Perfect Presidential CandidateBy Richard A. StittJames Dobson, Focus on The Family founder and a strong proponent of what he calls "traditional Christian values," has said that he and his evangelical following will not endorse any candidate for president unless he is pro life. There should be little doubt that Idaho U.S. Senator Larry Craig fits their qualifications perfectly. American citizens can learn much from the votes of pious, sanctimonious Republican legislators like Senator Larry Craig, Congressman Mark Foley and Congressman David Vitter, all of whom presented themselves to the voters as paragons of virtue and practitioners of Christian moral values while simultaneously voting to strip away rights of American citizens and condemning them for the very lifestyles in which they themselves were engaged.
As long as the list of these self-righteous congressmen is, Republicans who took over our government for over twelve years gained the rock-solid support of the evangelicals, but now they act appalled that anyone is questioning their probity and exposing their tableau of lies and hypocrisy on which they used to worm their way into every governmental agency and institution, the primary purpose of which has been to dismantle programs which were put in place to serve the public needs.
Here is a partial list which I excerpted from Project Vote Smart - Senator Craig - Voting Record revealing some of the most recent issues voted on by Idaho Senator Larry Craig, issues which are near and dear to the hearts of James Dobson's religious sect who wish to impose their punitive, theocratic policies on every citizen in the United States:
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the NARAL Pro-Choice America 0 percent in 2006.2005-2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the National Right to Life Committee 100 percent in 2005-2006. 2004 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Christian Coalition 100 percent in 2004.
2004 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Eagle Forum 100 percent in 2004.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Republicans for Environmental Protection 0 percent in
2006. 2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Family Research Council 100 percent in 2006.
2005-2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the American Family Association 100 percent in 2005-2006.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 100 percent in 2006.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 0 percent in 2006.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 0 percent in 2006.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Parkinsons Action Network 0 percent in 2006.
2005-2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 2005-2006.
2006 Senator Craig supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 20 percent in 2006.
2006 In 2006 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Senator Craig a grade of D-.
An Internet search reveals Republican scandals breathtaking in scope, yet they are only the tip of the iceberg when you consider the mountain of criminal activity conducted by the entire G. W. Bush administration whose modus operandi over the last six years has been to ignore laws they don't like and make up their own -- just like a dictator or totalitarian government would.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales decided that Bush has the right make up new laws with vague interpretations which he uses as his Constitutional authority to wage war, spy on American citizens, negate habeas corpus, torture with impunity, pass new laws like the Military Commissions Act, denying detainees and those named by Bush to be "enemy combatants" access to U.S. courts.
These acts are totally repugnant to everything our U.S. Constitution stands for. Abominable as they are, they represent the core values that James Dobson supported and still seeks to impose on the rest of America. Larry Craig should stick around at least until November 2008 just so the public gets a clear picture of what this depraved Republican Party truly represents. But, the rest of the (cognizant) country needs to observe this odious, repulsive vermin over the next 14 months as he tries to insulate himself in his little cocoon of self-righteousness. Watch his charade as he tries to foist himself off as a man of superior spiritual and moral values, traits which are nothing but a veneer and a cloak of lies which reflect the dishonesty of the entire Republican Party and their sordid hypocritical characters like Idaho Senator Larry Craig.
Lies and deceit were the catalysts that prompted Bush to bomb, invade and occupy Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Lies prompted former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to usher in a new era of totalitarian government when he said that Bush has unbridled powers to torture with impunity, murder tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, put 3,810 U.S. military in body bags and send over 27,000 wounded U.S. Marines and soldiers home, many with lifetime disabilities.
Lies were told to the American people that mushroom clouds would appear over U.S. cities unless we forfeited our civil liberties and freedoms and authorize Bush to spy on, arrest without cause, deny access to our courts or legal representation, any person, including American citizens.
So, why should Larry Craig, one of Bush's most loyal anti-U.S. Constitution enablers, be drummed out of the U.S. Senate for acting in a manner any different from his corrosive, corrupt Republican colleagues who never saw a miasma too noxious or a toilet stall too putrid for any of them to drink their swill from?
Focus On The Family founder, James Dobson, has drunk from that ladle of swill so often in the past that his dream of Armageddon can only be hastened by a presidential candidate like Republican Senator Larry Craig who precisely radiates the values of that political party's depravity. Larry Craig is James Dobson's perfect candidate.
