The Nation: Larry Craig Swears By Mitt Romney

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BLOG | Posted 08/28/2007 @ 11:59pm
Larry Craig Swears By Mitt Romney
John Nichols


"Knowing Governor Mitt Romney is knowing somebody who first and foremost has very strong family values," says Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig ☼ as he makes the case for his man in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. "That's something I grew up with and believe in."

Craig mouths these words in a horribly hokey "man-on-the-street" style interview that was posted by the official YouTube channel of the former Massachusetts governor at a time when Craig was serving as a chairman of the Romney campaign.

Now that Craig has plead guilty to approaching men in a bathroom at the Minneapolis airport -- in a manner that, while certainly friendly, was termed "disorderly" by the officer who arrested the senator -- Romney's campaign has lost its appreciation of the Idahoan's warm endorsement. They don't seem to recognize the full political potency of having a solidly-conservative senator from cowboy country -- who has recently confirmed that he has never "been gay" -- testify to their candidate's "very strong family values."

So Craig has been relieved of his co-chairmaning duties.

And, even before Romney allowed as how all this bathroom talk is "disgusting" in a "Bill Clinton" kind of way, the former governor's camp blocked access to the video of Craig singing his man's praises.

"Once information about his stepping down from the campaign was imminent, we removed his prior testimonial from our site," Romney aide Matt Rhoades explained in response to media inquiries about the missing endorsement of a Republican presidential candidate but a suddenly very prominent advocate of family values.

Americans who feel they might be swayed by Craig's endorsement of Romney can still view it on the many YouTube sites that are graciously hosting this delicious reflection on what it means to be a "family values" conservative like Larry Craig or Mitt Romney.

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