A few days ago, we briefly discussed the endemic Republican problem of taking things that aren't theirs. They seem to believe that membership in the GOP is a teflon license to steal everything that isn't welded in place.

But I was wrong. They also appear to be universally sexual reprobates. If they're not serial adulterers, or self-loathing homosexuals, they seem to be child molesters.

The latest bit of proof of the above thesis involves Carey Lee Cramer. According to the McAllen, Texas Monitor,

EDINBURG — Political consultant and ad producer Carey Lee Cramer is expected to testify today defending himself against charges he sexually molested two young girls.

Cramer, 44, took the stand shortly before court recessed at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. He will likely continue today before Visiting Judge Homer Salinas in Auxiliary Court A, where his trial began June 7.

Cramer, who gained national notoriety with an anti-Al Gore commercial in 2000, is facing several counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

He is the second witness defense attorney Charles Banker called to rebut the testimony of the two 15-year-old girls who testified Cramer sexually molested them when they were younger.

How fascinating. Well, maybe it isn't so surprising. Mr Cramer's anti-Gore ad was a string of lies from beginning to end. I guess if you have the type of mind that believes screwing with the truth is all right, it's onlt a small step to figuring screwing with children must also be allowable.

Cramer’s commercial showed a young girl picking daisy petals and ends with a nuclear blast, a remake of a 1964 ad by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign against Republican Barry Goldwater. Cramer’s ad made national news, though he refused to identify who financed the commercial. One of the girls in the ad stands as his accuser now.

One of the girls lived with Cramer and his ex-wife Samara Whittaker for eight years in Mercedes, McAllen and Tucson, Ariz., and claimed he began to inappropriately touch her beginning when she was 8 years old. She testified the abuse included pornography, sex toys and escalated from touching to sexual intercourse.

Another 15-year-old testified that Cramer touched her genital area one time when she was visiting the family in Mercedes. Cramer’s alleged victims are relatives.

I know, I know, the golden rule of American Law: You're innocent until proven guilty. Have you ever talked with a prosecutor? They have too much crime to waste their time pursuing cases that are murky or not reasonably solid. As much as I love the backbone of American criminal law, I have to go with the state on this one.