“Love the biased article: he apologized.”
We all know that apologies don’t unblacken eyes, or un-abuse people.
He did it. He admits he did it. The truth of this is, as always, that he did not do this once. This is what this guy does. He just got caught doing it once.
Somehow he continues to win elections though.
He keeps winning because the GOPe continually nominates designated losers and nobody wants a wife beater in their neighborhood.
The problem we have right now, is that common sense is gone.. the anger and hatred on both sides of the political aisle is leading to pure insanity.
The fundamental question, we are really discussing here, isn’t whether this happened or that happened... That’s just cover.
The real underlying question, and probably the far more important one, is... is the sum of a man (and by man I mean any member of the human race) simply his worst action??
This attempt by folks across the spectrum to declare that those they disagree with are nothing more than their worse action, is stupid. We are all failed creatures, NONE OF US, are remotely perfect, we have all fallen fall short of perfection.
Did a drunken 17 year old, try to take things too far with a (likely) drunken 15 year old 37 years ago? While another person was in the room? At BEST 3 people know the answer to this, and like it or not, their words are all we have to go on... 1 says it did, 2 say it never happened.... Short of any of those 3 people changing their story, we are never going to know anything more than that about the incident in question.
No amount of digging is going to change that reality. The accuser says she never told anyone.... the accused and the other named both deny anything of the sort occurred.
So the real question is, even if the allegations are true, is the accused a bad man?
The simple reality is, if you have a particular political bent, you will say yes... and if you don’t you will say no.... and if you invert the politics, you will find a different set will say yes, and the set now saying yes, would say no...
So, if you have a person who has 1 allegation against them 37 years ago, when both were teenagers, of this nature... are they a bad and unfit person, even if the allegation is true???? NO evidence, no witnesses to corroborate the accusers story.. nothing more than a sole claim against the person, of behavior that is improper.
Most sane people, would probably conclude no... only those with political axes to grind will claim otherwise.
Both sides need to back off this notion that a man can be fully judged by their worst behavior, let alone alleged behavior.... its a garbage claim.