Cliff's Notes for DU today: "I believe her... unless he is a liberal Democrat"

[Bucky]

12. You'll excuse me if I hold myself to a higher moral standard than Trump supporters

Yes, Republicans pretty consistently put party ahead of country, truth, justice, and American values. It's disgusting. It's tribalistic. It's unamerican. To have Stone & Hannity involved is equally appalling and hypocritical--as they've both supported abusers in the past accused of things far more onorous than what Franken is accused of (and Hannity has been accused of harassment personally, tho apparently of things far less frequent & horrible than his ex boss and colleagues).

I think Franken is handling this perfectly. He's gonna end up taking a censure for this, if the accusation bears out; this is my guess. And he should. I have no complaints about him.

But DUers who are announcing it must be fake are insulting this site's longstanding feminist imperatives. Women generally don't just make up fake accusations. We say this around here all the time. When the accusations point at one of our heroes, it's not right to drop our values to back our man.