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In reply to the discussion: Kirsten Gillibrand, two words as to why you went nowhere [View all]FrankTC
(210 posts)Agreed. Over and over Democrats turn on good people and shun or defund them because they appear to be morally suspect. It's not a rational reaction. It doesn't arise from a careful review of the evidence. It's emotional. It's some kind of antibody attack apparently designed to protect the moral integrity of the party as a whole. Republicans, on the other hand, gleefully support rapists and pedophiles and conmen and thieves. You're in your 30's and you troll the malls for susceptible teenage girls? Well, that's no problem if you praise the Lord and kick the libs -- you'll have the Republican vote. Republicans are in it to win it, and hypocrisy in the service of their long-term goals of despoiling the planet and immiserating the masses is just fine. Republicans are eager to take down Dems on flimsy or concocted evidence, and sometimes it seems that Democrats are eager too.