Uh-oh! Is Mitt Romney another Larry Craig?

Is Larry Craig a political genius?

Josh Marshall says he is.

Closeted gay Republicans unite!

Frank Rich says Larry Craig should be spared an unjust execution -- and he's right.

Bad year ahead for GOP

The 2008 election season starts in earnest next week with the passing of Labor Day, and the year poses grim prospects for the Republican Party.

Yeah, Larry Craig's announcement today that he'll resign from the Senate means that his scandal soon will be off the front pages, but the GOP's problems still loom large.

Joe Sudbay surveys the situation here.

Another GOP rightist busted

Another "family values" Republican has been arrested on a morals charge.

This time it's U.S. Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho. He pleaded guilty to making lewd advances to an undercover cop in an airport bathroom in Minneapolis.

Here are the details.

UPDATE: Twenty-five years ago, Craig denied having anything to do with a sex scandal involving young House pages. He's shown in this video of an ABC News report from back then:

UPDATE II: Daily Kos has lots more about Craig and about a story on his private life that apparently was spiked by a paper in Boise.