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

[crosinski]

58. I'm a woman, and I've had my share of harrassment through the years.

I'm now 63. Please consider my point of view. It might surprise you. The values you seem to be assigning to us all here at DU aren't really equally valued. In other words, your fight right now is clearly against sexual harassment. However, other people here value the Democratic Party as their primary value. That's because they know it encompasses the fight against sexual harassment.

I'm one of the DU'ers who value the Democratic Party and have faith that it will work to stop sexual harassment because I've seen it happen throughout my life. Whenever a democrat is president, not only are laws passed to help level the playing field between women and men, the culture changes for the better too. And I've seen it go the other way too. Don't even get me started on the Ronnie Ray-gun years ... and they were nothing compared to now!

So, knowing what I know, Franken's accuser is either being used, or doing this for money, or both. The repuglicans are shoving our own outrage over their Alabama pervert in our faces, and I'm pissed about that. I think we should have questioned the accuser right away, and we did. Franken apologized right away, and she accepted that apology.

I don't think the right response is to accuse each other of not honoring 'our' values, because we are honoring our values. We're just not honoring them they way you want us to.