BTRTN: Cuomo Next Step... Investigation, Resignation, or Just Be Judged Like a Republican?
Born To Run The Numbers on the Cuomo debate and the vast gulf between Republicans and Democrats on holding their elected officials to standards of sexual conduct. It is a case of situational ethics, and the situation is that Republicans don't have ethics. Democrats care more about the higher moral ground than winning, Republicans act on precisely the opposite notion. BTRTN thinks the Cuomo situation has Democrats debating the virtue of virtue:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/03/btrtn-cuomo-next-step-investigation.html
Excerpts: "So here’s the lesson in morality and ethics that we teach our children.We have on the one hand, Al Franken, who, in the face of an accusation, expressed remorse for unintended hurt, apologized for any and all inappropriate action, and who only sought to clear his name through an investigation into incidents remembered differently. We demanded his resignation without any investigation.On the other, we have any number of Republican leaders, people who label their accusers as liars, announce that they will sue them, deny any wrongdoing, even in the face of repeated incidents, and who refuse to even consider resigning, certain that the opposing party lacks the will or mechanism to do anything about it.
The issue is this: Democrats still believe that we must hold their elected officials accountable for inappropriate sexual conduct, even as that risks weakening our political might to accomplish the things we believe in. Republicans believe that preserving their political power in order to implement their agenda is vastly more important than punishing or even acknowledging corruption, deceit, or sexually inappropriate behavior. And the real issue for Democrats is that today, the most accurate descriptor of Andrew Cuomo is 'Republican.'”
