I Just Noticed That Larry Craig's Three Kids Are All Adopted

At least, according to Wikipedia (which isn't one of the most reliable sources):

Craig is married and has adopted the three children that his wife, Suzanne, had from her previous marriage.^[5] Through his adopted children, Craig has nine grandchildren.^[6]

I see quite a bit of stuff indicating that Craig has a strong interest in adoption issues. I mentioned a few days back the Idaho Statesman's coverage of the nasty rumors about Craig, and that report included this:

Craig and the then-Suzanne Scott had their first date on Valentine's Day 1980, when Craig was making his first run for Congress. Craig proposed six months after the scandal, on Suzanne's birthday, Dec. 28, 1982. They married in July 1983.

What's interesting is that Craig specifically responded to a question of whether theirs was a "marriage of convenience." (I recently read an interview with former New Jersey Governor McGreevey's ex-wife. It was a marriage of convenience for McGreevey, to make himself electable as governor--she just wasn't brought in on this detail.)

I think very highly of people that adopt. There are a lot of children out there that need a home. But the more I connect the dots on this, the more it really does look like a marriage of convenience. Maybe Craig has some sterility problem. Maybe his wife decided that she had three kids and didn't want anymore. But in the same way that all the individual actions in that men's room don't mean much by themselves, when you put them all together--it does make you wonder, doesn't it?

A politician has to wear a mask that hides who he is really is--to be different people to different interest groups--in order to get elected. For a lot of homosexuals, unless they choose to be open about it, they also have to wear a mask that hides who they really are. Perhaps all these gay politicians are the consequence of people who get used to wearing a mask about their sexuality--and find it very easy to then leapfrog into politics, a career that does not require, but certainly encourages equivocation, shading the truth, and flat-out lies.

None of this would matter if Craig had either been discreet, or intelligent. But he managed to fail on both counts with this stunt in Minneapolis, and made all of this relevant.