As I told you over the weekend the possibility was there. Now from his spokesman.

“BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.

“It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” said Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman in Idaho’s capital.

“We’re still preparing as if Senator Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we’re able to stay in the fight‚Äîand stay in the Senate.”

Craig, a Republican who has represented Idaho in Congress for 27 years, announced Saturday that he intends to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30. But since then, he’s hired a prominent lawyer to investigate the possibility of reversing his plea, his spokesman said.”

The word is that there may be a little more to this arrest than than was previously disclosed and that information was forwarded to the Senator’s people, which began the turnaround as he is reconsidering his guilty plea and fight the charge. If he does the case will get tossed, there is no doubt about it.

As you know I said that he shouldn’t have resigned, and the GOP should be freaking ashamed of itself for tossing the credibility of 27 years of faithful service based on what we now know to be a bad arrest.

UPDATE: Here’s a little more background. On Tuesay Senator Specter – a former prosecutor and all around pain in the ass to the Bush administration called Craig and told him to fight.

“A telephone call Craig received last week from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urging him to consider fighting for his seat is affecting Craig‚Äôs decision to reconsider his resignation, Smith said.

“It was a little more cut and dried a few days ago,” Smith said. “There weren’t many options. He was basically going to have to step aside. Now, there’s a little more to it.”

On Tuesday, Specter, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Craig’s GOP colleagues who pressured him last week to resign should re-examine the facts surrounding his arrest June 11.

‚ÄúThe more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts,‚Äù said Specter, a former prosecutor. If Craig had not pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, ‚ÄúI believe he would have been exonerated,‚Äù Specter said.”

Hot Air shows how some of the scenarios could work out.