WASHINGTON (FMLiveWire) -- Defiant Republican Senator Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing on Tuesday, asking, "What's wrong with a quickie now and then? All Republicans do it…even in Congress and the White House. George and Dick and Karl would agree with me."
This is despite his recent guilty plea in a men's room police sting.
The 3rd-term senator from Idaho said that he "wasn't really gay" as senior Republican gay leaders held an ethics review of his case. "I just have my own private Idaho," he added.
Craig was apprehended by an undercover cop in a men's room at the Minneapolis airport and later pleaded guilty.
The undercover officer said that Craig engaged in actions while in a stall in the men's room used by persons communicating a desire for sex.
He was charged, signed and dated his guilty plea to disorderly conduct, paid $575 in fines and fees and was put on probation for a year.
Craig also resigned from a key post running Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
"He's disappointed the American people," Romney said on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company."
"He reminds me of Mark Foley and Dennis and Rudy, and all those other gay Republicans, and believe me, there are a helluva lotta closet queers in our ranks," Romney added. "At least it wasn't normal hetero sex like Bill Clinton had."
Craig, 62, has faced queries about his sexuality for decades, and the Idaho Statesman, the state's largest newspaper, recently published a lengthy story about his perverse activities.
--Copyright Felix Minderbinder Live Wire
