A gay person who lives in a Idaho (or other conservative thinking states) would have to appear straight to be elected. Once elected the person he has to vote for his constituents preference. I don’t think it’s being a hypocrite, rather its being a pragmatist which all politicians are. The best commentary I’ve seen is located at (you may have to copy this address and paste it into your browser.)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/doc/clt/459032955.html

Well worth the effort. The publicized reality right now is in Idaho though.

The comment is an example of not addressing the post but instead addressing posts that reference the topic of what the commenter wants to parlay his message regarding, in this case Larry Craig — and the claims of “hypocrisy” — something I did not say there, and for all I know never expressly said.

The comment is a sad one, though it does parallel my sentence about “only electable in a handful of zip codes”.   Saying what? Regarding Larry Craig, though, his situation gets even worse: he is not gay — so he says — and does not believe himself to be gay, and there is a part of himself that believes he never trafficed bathroom stalls like that.

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