[DoughtyOne]

One should also not forget Tom Delay the Republican Whip in the House, who had trumped up charges leveled against him in Texas by the same guy that had done it once before.

Delay had to step down, and eventually cleared himself of all the (trumped up) charges. Of course then the damage had been done.

I wish there were a way to convict people for bringing false charges like this, to protect the innocent, but it would be a difficult thing to manage.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, that is a ploy that the Democrats use, bring phony indictments and then win the election.

[papertyger]

I am firmly in “THE WOMEN ARE LIARS” camp, and not in the least shy about saying so.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I wish there were a way to convict people for bringing false charges like this, to protect the innocent, but it would be a difficult thing to manage.”

There is. It is called fighting fire with fire. But because we are good and moral human beings, we don’t stoop down to that level. It’s why Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals is so important to us. It lets us see the left’s playbook. From what I have seen over the last 375 days, it appears Trump keeps a pocket copy right next to his pocket copy of the Constitution.

[Political Junkie Too]

In 2002, Bill Simon was running against incumbent Gray Davis for Governor of California. In August, Simon's company was on trial for defrauding a pay phone company owned by a convicted drug dealer (funny, the timing of that). A jury awarded the defendant a $79 million verdict. The press went wild and tanked Simon's campaign.

In September, the trial judge reversed the jury verdict and decided for Simon, saying that it was Simon's company that was defrauded, not the plaintiff who sued him.

Simon went on to lose to Davis 47.3% to 42.4%. In 2006, a California appeals court upheld the trial judge's reversal, but the damage was done.

-PJ