There is only one argument in support of Franken

[ancianita]

48. We're not in a backlash because moral high ground isn't right. Our problem is to make sure it WINS.

To paraphrase boston bean's ideas:

Endorsing false equivalency is not taking a moral high ground.

Forcing any punishment to fit some "crime" is.

This party of "we" know the obvious difference between leaving a trail of emotional embarrassment and leaving a legally actionable legal trail of psychic and physical damage.

If no woman makes this distinction, no man -- whether in comedy or in politics -- will survive this bar.

Men and women who make these distinctions will not have to forgive the wrong of a child molester and/or send him to congress.

Women and men who make these distinctions will not have to forgive an obnoxious senator and/or drive him out of congress.

Please understand that this senator is not exchangeable like a car part. He is needed to keep these distinctions clear before Congress and America -- early, often and loudly.

Overall, when we make the above distinctions, we see that this senator is not the problem. He is the solution. We don't need to allow ourselves to be played by confounders who don't play by legal rules.

Any Democratic senator who faces anonymous accusers must first forgive him/herself, then allow any ethics investigation to present the sources of these accusations and their evidence. Evidence that wouldn't be laughed out of a courtroom.

Remember that the accused are not the ones who have to prove anything. Accusers do. We have to make them. We have to stand by those who have to fight confounders and law breakers.

We cannot stand for echoing false equivalencies in the name of some misguided "higher ground."

When voters see that, they won't trust us and we won't WIN.