NinevehDinha's Blog

Do you think his apology is sincere?

NO- A slight bit of Foresight will save you the trouble of getting someone to believe you later.

Do you think his alleged actions will ultimately end his political career?

YES- It is nearly impossible to "Regain" trust.

And if it does, is that fair?

YES- Once again... Foresight. Are The Effects of Actions really so hard to predict? Take an axe and chop your leg, what do you predict will happen? If you answered Cut my leg off than your foresight is working just fine...

Or do you think it was entrapment?

YES- By definition Entrapment is A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials. (For Example: If law enforcement officials dress up like hookers and run around trying to get someone to break the law. They are taking a pro-active step, they are setting the stage, they are initiating the crime...)

It just so "confidently" happens that the defining point of Entrapment is so far lost in ambiguity that it breeds misuse, abuse, uncertainty like mold growing on cheese out in the sun for two weeks! This sort of AMBIGUITY has no place in the Justice System!!!

First of all this is not entrapment. Sorry. No one goes after a hooker that does not want one. Second, no one tries to pick up a hooker at an airport unless they have experience doing so. This was not his first prostitute. Also, his decision to plead guilty was based SOLELY ON THE FACT THAT HE WAS GUILTY. I have heard that excuse from criminals before. He saved himself a very embarrassing trial and now he is trying to play it off as a mistake. The mistake he made is calling Bill Clinton a 'naughty boy' when in fact he craves 'naughty boys'. His political career belongs in the trash. This country has enough two faced politicians already. I am glad to see this one go bye-bye. This also shows how easy it is for him to lie in the face of the evidence to the contrary. He pulled a Bill Clinton in the act and in the lie. Let's hope he eventually finishes with the truth. It saved some of Bill's reputation. Maybe it will help Larry's rep as well.

I agree with Crossover on many of the points raised. The Senator's worst decision was to plead guilty to anything to save face or to sweep it under therug in the most expedient manner available.

There are two things I'd like to mention though ...
1) The Senator pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct - not lewd conduct.
2) If the officer felt confident about the offense the Senator was originally charged with, he never would have backed off from it.

Do I think it is fair ... no, but it is a situation of the Senator's own making.

Do I think it should cost him his career ... no, because he didn't plead guilty to a morally offensive crime or a felony.

Do I think it was entrapment or that his apology was sincere ... I wasn't there and I don't know the man. I will not judge him on matters I don't have direct knowledge of.

Skooby,
I see your point, but the DA (prosecutor) would have relied heavily on the officer's report. Senator Craig did not plead guilty to solicitation ... he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
I'm a little more forgiving on entrapment concerns because of something that happened to me. I was asked to be at a certain location for valid reasons and can prove this. The people who arranged for me to be at this location then called the police and told him to arrest me for criminal trespass; they knew my husband was supposed to have left for service in Afghanistan three days before and that we had no family who could take emergency custody of our disabled children. There would have been no way I could have accessed the proof I was innocent. My children would have been put into state custody and my husband's honored military career would have been over (we told them three weeks prior to that date what the exact result would be if they tried anything like what they had done once before - he had to come home from Kuwait after 9/11 because of something these people started, would you like to hear the tape); we would have no income and would lose our home! As soon as they found out my husband hadn't left, they claimed it was all a big mistake and released me.
With all due respect, what a person does or does not know to be the truth doesn't have anything to do with whether it is actually true or not. We weren't there ... we don't know.

Yes.

It sounded as if the police officer was trying to talk Craig into the 'official' version of what happened. And, was being very aggressive.

There is one detail that hasn't come out that would give me better information. To which side of the officer was Craig sitting?

I still think Craig's biggest mistake was pleading guilty to anything he didn't feel he was guilty of. Just to make it go away before anyone noticed? Yeah, that worked really well.

I knew this blog would get people talking...as you know, Senator Craig stepped down on Saturday.

Ninevah,

Great subject!

And just so you know, the matter that was brought against me based on lies ... it was dropped more than a year after the charges were filed due to 'lack of evidence'.

I don't think so - not after that length of time; the assistant DA and the party that had the charges filed found out I was going to present evidence that proved the charges never should have been brought in the first place.

Thank goodness I had the intelligence to stand up for my innocence against all odds.

Tricked, no ... entrapped or misinterpreted, quite possibly.

Political hit job, no ... wrong place at wrong time, probably.

He made a big mistake in pleading guilty to anything he wasn't guilty of ... these days, nobody wants to be around the mere appearance of impropriety.

Craig backed himself out of his senate seat.

I will give Larry one kudos though. He didn't go to rehab and find god. Rehab repentance is getting old.

That would be interesting. I don't think it would affect my vote. If someone does something in secret his friends can hardly be blamed for it. But I can also see Romney treading carefully being the first mormon candidate to have a real shot. Presenting a clean image is a top priority I imagine.