Craig's Going To Stay

Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, has decided not to resign after all.

Apparently, the decision doesn't surprise many of his Republican colleagues in the Senate. Although word has it that Craig is causing "frustration" and "fatigue" for members of his party.

But, as District Judge Charles Porter wrote in an order that declared that it was too late for Craig to withdraw his plea of guilty to disorderly conduct charges, "The defendant, a career politician with a college education, is of at least above-average intelligence. He knew what he was saying, reading and signing."

Indeed.

In fact, anyone who heard the audio tape of his interrogation after being arrested in June had to reach one inescapable conclusion. The senator repeatedly denied he was gay before anyone accused him of it.

He knew what the signals were and he knew he'd been using them.