[Chickensoup]

child sex abuse allegations have been used by lefties for years to discredit their opponents. Nazis, Stalinists, you name it.

[Nowhere Man]

child sex abuse allegations have been used by lefties for years to discredit their opponents. Nazis, Stalinists, you name it.

That's why I don't jump on people accused of it until they are proven guilty beyond a doubt. My high school buddy was charged with child abuse, physical, not sexual, by his then girlfriend because she wanted to get back at him. Her father fessed up and told the truth and charges were dropped before it got legs, thank God. The thing that bugs me about child abuse cases is even if you are deemed innocent after dropped charges or in a court of law, the stigma still follows you. He went through all sorts of Hell, especially his mother who was on kidney dialysis at the time because he spent a night in county lockup.

[lentulusgracchus]

child sex abuse allegations have been used by lefties for years to discredit their opponents. Nazis, Stalinists, you name it.

Lyndon Johnson used a lie like that against his senatorial campaign opponent, in his first Senate run.

The charge was a blatant lie and everybody knew it, so he circulated it as a whispering campaign. Asked why he bothered circulating something so palpably false which the opponent would deny, he narrowed his nasty, pig eyes (typical DemonRat) and said, "I just want to hear him say it." He knew the power of a charge of pedophilia to unstarch voters' commitment to any candidate made the target of such a charge.

Robert Caro told that story in The Path to Power.