Topic: Newt Gengrich

Craig’s embarassing flip-flop just another example of hypocrisy

By David W. Shelton | September 5, 2007 |

In what might be the ultimate flip-flop, Senator Larry Craig has announced that he is “reconsidering” his resignation from the US Senate after his arrest and guilty plea for “disorderly conduct” in a Minneapolis airport.
 
Craig is yet another of a long list of Republicans who have had their hand caught in the cookie jar of hypocrisy. What amazes me is that in recent days the only thing that the Republican Party has to say about itself is to attack former President Bill Clinton who got that blowjob in the Oval Office back in 1995. When that didn’t stick, they went after US Senator Ted Edward Kennedy’s drunken driving manslaughter incident back in 1970.
 
Of course, the party line from conservatives and Republicans is that the Democratic Party is “corrupt” and “immoral.” If this were true, why do they have to go back twelve years and nearly forty years to find their examples of just how “immoral” Democrats are?

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