Comments on: Right-wing Mormon Senator busted for DUI

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:43:57 +0000

Must admit I am curious about the ‘circumstances’.

There’s a difference between coming to a deserted intersection, looking both ways and slowly creeping through before the lights change*, and barrelling straight through a clearly red light in a high-traffic zone, complete with screeching tires and honking.

There’s also ‘slipping through on a late yellow while not noticing the cop hiding out behind the 7-11 sign’, which I suspect is the most likely.

As far as dragging his religion in, well, if you talk the talk, you’re expected to walk the walk, too. As E. Hillman pointed out, it’s not the ‘sin’, really, it’s the lying about it that is really the more pernicious crime.

I read his response as ‘yah yah, whatever, I’ll just throw my lawyer at them and get a sweet deal while collecting sympathy by acting terribly repentant, besides, God loves me and He’ll forgive anything’, and his swearing to make sure ‘this circumstance never happens again’ as ‘I am learning to try a lot harder not to get caught’.

Alternately, he drove perfectly lawfully, and a cop needed to make his quota, followed him around for awhile, cooked up something to pull him over for, and doctored the measuring instrument to ensure his bosses were happy.

He’s innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And we all know the law doesn’t treat anyone unequally *barf* *sorry*

I’ll shut up again.

* As a teenager, in an overbuilt yet deserted suburb of Denver, late one night a friend and I sat in the middle of a brightly lit two four-lane roads intersection and ate a pizza while the lights regularly changed over us. Probably not the best place, but it was amusing, and the only car we saw for half an hour was his, parked over there. J.

By: Evan Hillman

Evan Hillman — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:36:29 +0000

It isn’t about his faith, but rather his hypocrisy. In that sense, it wouldn’t be any different if he said “I don’t ever eat chocolate because it is fattening,” and is seen munching a Hershey’s bar. What concerns me is that if he is lying about drinking, what else is he lying about? As I recall, Bill Clinton wasn’t impeached because of what he did, but because he lied about doing it.

By: Pondering It All

Pondering It All — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:22:17 +0000

I wonder how that license suspension works if his license is from Idaho? People who work in D.C. can live in D.C., Virginia, or Maryland. If you are a renter and get your license suspended where you live, does it work to just move to one of the others and get a new license there?

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:27:36 +0000

Why is it the man’s faith, or his lack of living it, had to be mentioned? Has this medium ever mentioned someone else’s faith for similar charges? Any Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim congressman/congresswoman ever been busted where their faith is mentioned?

By: John W. Farley

John W. Farley — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:13:43 +0000

In the text, Mr. Crapo is a Senator, but in the headline he’s a Congressman. Which is it?

Awww, really, who cares? If you’ve seen one Idaho politician, you’ve seen them all.

By: Willie Buck Merle

Willie Buck Merle — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:09 +0000

Prob tied one on because of the “wear pants on Sunday” movement that their women do now.

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:38:56 +0000

The LDS Church forbids the consumption of any stimulant or depressant. What ever caused the DUI must have been a terrible shock when it was determined to be booze that caused it. My mother tried that excuse for 60 years. Smoking was also on the no fly list but mother denied that cigarettes neither stimulated nor depressed her in the least. We took my mother and all 4 of her brothers to AA meetings but none of them believed they had a drinking problem.