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Craig's Toughest Fight

“I don’t just walk away from a fight,” Mr. Craig told Mr. Lauer. “This is the toughest fight of my political life.”

Senator Craig is still in the news, this time for trashing Mitt Romney. At first I thought he was, perhaps, trying to give Romney a boost in the polls. What better publicity is there for your campaign than to find out Senator Craig doesn’t like you?

However, it appears that Romney and Craig have two different views of Craig’s exit from a prominent place in the Romney campaign.

A spokesman for Mr. Romney, Kevin Madden, said in an e-mail message that Mr. Craig had left the campaign “because he did not want to be a distraction.”

That certainly sounds like it was Craig’s decision to leave. Craig’s memory is different.

“I was very proud of my association with Mitt Romney. I’d worked hard for him here in the state. I was a co-chair of his campaign on Capitol Hill. And he not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again.”

It’s OK, Mitt — we still believe your side of the story!

Back to Craig, he calls his current predicament “the toughest fight of his political life.” I want to hear about the toughest fight of his life, if this fight is only the toughest of his political life.

But I think he’s chosen a flattering way to portray his shenanigans and subsequent mistakes as a “fight” and expect to wring some sympathy out of us.

Senator Craig, if you came out as gay and appealed to the public about the difficulty of your double life, then you’d be in a difficult political fight which would challenge Americans and your Republican supporters to search their souls. You would also have to justify your stance (no humor intended) on gay rights issues.

What you have now is not so much a fight as a struggle resulting from your screwups.

Posted by James at October 16, 2007 9:55 AM
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