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Columnist: Craig Should Switch Parts, Move To Mass.

Now Sen. Larry Craig is refusing to resign just because he pleaded guilty in a mens room gay-sex undercover sting. Who does this Idaho Republican think he is, a Massachusetts Democrat? Actually, there is a way for Sen. Wide Stance to salvage his squalid career. It would require a two-step program. No. 1, switch parties and become a Democrat. No. 2, move to Massachusetts. Problem solved, Sen. Craig will be welcomed with a brass band at Logan Airport. Yes, U.S. senators have been arrested at Logan in the past - a Republican solon from Minnesota, oddly enough, but that was for cutting a line at a cabstand and then demanding of a state cop, “Do you know who I am?”/Howie Carr, Spokesman-Review.

Full column here

Question: Would this have played out differently if Craig'd been a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.