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In reply to the discussion: Al Franken still hasn't denied grabbing women [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,356 posts)I voted for him before and I'll vote for him again. All this piling on has made me start to wonder whether there really is some GOP ratfucking going on, as Richard Painter has suggested. A couple of anonymous women have claimed that, in public in front of hundreds of people and cameras, he actually touched their rear ends! OMG, off with his head! So let's take this great opportunity to ruin one of the most effective progressive senators on the basis of a couple of unsourced accusations of butt-patting. Let's throw him under the Bus of Liberal Righteousness so the GOP can proceed with their destructive agenda, but unlike them we're pure and virtuous because we Believed The Women, and now we can at least feel good about ourselves while the GOP is fucking us.
Sorry, no. I will not only vote for Franken again in 2020; I will work especially hard to get him re-elected by volunteering for his campaign and donating as much as I can afford, because now we'll have to fight the damage done by the GOP and by those pure and virtuous "liberals" who apparently can't identify GOP sabotage when it's staring them in the face.