The Democrat Utopia

This is the kind of throw-away tribalist comment we don't need in American politics today.  There's no proof, there's no way to object to it, it's just the same as saying, "I'm Republican/Conservative and I hate seeing my team bashed." 

I disagree with you on a lot of our political views but I'm pretty confident in saying that you are better than this. Please rethink this comment. I can disagree with you while respecting your opinion. This is not a respectable stance.
  I only meant to point out that when the accusations went the other way, the same arguments were being used, people just switched sides as to whom they believed.  Not to defend Hannity, but to show he's no better now than the other side was then.  And not to defend the other side, as they were not better then, than Hannity is now.

 
Maybe it would be helpful if you gave specific examples of the same arguments being used.  Then we can figure out who you're talking about with this "same people" thing. 

 
So, big picture, when should allegations be enough to force someone to drop out of a race; or resign office if already elected?

To me, these allegations against Moore just "feel true."   But I sure wouldn't like that standard used against me if I were accused of something like this.
I think any time there are multiple, unrelated folks reporting the same behavior it should be taken very seriously as well.

 
Getting back to the original post in the thread.

The "Republican Utopia" thread is basically a collecting place of loony toon things Republicans are doing or supporting.  Many of them fly in the face of the moral superiority they try to display.

I'm more than willing to read or discuss the same type of things in this thread if you have some.

 
Getting back to the original post in the thread.

The "Republican Utopia" thread is basically a collecting place of loony toon things Republicans are doing or supporting.  Many of them fly in the face of the moral superiority they try to display.

I'm more than willing to read or discuss the same type of things in this thread if you have some.


Well, a good place to start would be Bob Mendendez, D Senator from NJ, currently embroiled in a corruption trial.

I know I've seen a lot of right-leaning people on TV whine that this isn't getting more play. Personally, I think the guy is getting pretty fair coverage for what is going on. The jury is currently deadlocked & deliberating. They had to expel one of the jurors who got out and immediately spoke to the press about how they felt Menendez didn't do anything wrong & most of the jurors felt that way.

Isn't that a good way to get a mistrial? Are dismissed jurors no longer supposed to sequester themselves?

 
First thing I thought of with that Menendez trial is that someone got to the jury.  That doesn't seem right - or, it seems a little too convenient that the jury in THIS case just happens to be deadlocked when it's dealing with criminal activity by a Senator.

I'm always more than a little suspicious of that kind of convenience.

 
First thing I thought of with that Menendez trial is that someone got to the jury.  That doesn't seem right - or, it seems a little too convenient that the jury in THIS case just happens to be deadlocked when it's dealing with criminal activity by a Senator.

I'm always more than a little suspicious of that kind of convenience.


One of the few constants of litigation, juries are unpredictable and sometimes crazy.

 
^^^ So now that he is a repub all is forgiven and he's clean as the driven snow.   

Here is Rush's transcript on Moore from today's radio show.  He is doubting the lady's diner charge because the cars back then didn't have child proof locks on them!!  He also ties this to the anti trump crowd. 

  https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/11/14/do-you-think-roy-moore-is-a-creep-who-did-the-deeds/




The Roy Moore Soap Opera Is Really About McConnell vs. Bannon


Nov 14, 2017
quotes from a couple of  sections:

RUSH: Let’s swerve into Roy Moore, and that will take us — I’ll make the transition seamless — into the Jeff Sessions testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee. ‘Cause some of it is quite comical. The first allegations, the first accusations did not make Roy Moore resign. So now new allegations are coming forward. They’re ratcheting up the charges, and now it used to be the guy just likes young girls. He likes to be in their company and he likes to smooch and this. But now the charges are matriculating, and they have become full-on sexual assault charges.

If that doesn’t work, I fully expect a charge of rape to eventually be forthcoming. “Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is denying that he ever met the woman who on Monday accused him of sexually assaulting her in a diner parking lot in 1977 when she was an underage teenager, calling her allegations ‘absolutely false,’ despite his apparent signature in her high school yearbook. ‘I can tell you without hesitation this is absolutely false. I never did what she said I did. I don’t even know the woman.

“‘I don’t know anything about her,’ Moore told reporters during a short press conference with his wife, Kayla Moore, standing by his side. His remarks come after a press conference with lawyer Gloria Allred earlier on Monday where Beverly Young Nelson became the fifth woman to publicly accuse Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a 16-year-old high school student.” What happened was that she was working at the diner. Her shift ended. It was late.

Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her up but he didn’t show or he was late and so Roy Moore said, “Hey, I’ll be happy to take you home.” So she got in the car, and he drove around the back of the restaurant, the back of the parking lot, parked it, locked the doors, and then made moves on her that equal sexual assault. She says she couldn’t get out. Now, you know, I don’t want to get into the nooks and crannies of every allegation here, but I’m gonna tell you:

This is 1977? Somebody tell me: In 1977, were there child locks on the door? In other words, could the driver push a button that would make sure all windows and doors could not be opened? Was that present in 1977, because she says she couldn’t get out. But did child locks…? Were they in 1977 vehicles. I’m trying to remember what I had in 1977. I had a Pontiac… Well, it was a pretty big Pontiac. The car I had didn’t have them in there. But I didn’t drive every car that’s out there. You know, the button on the driver’s side where you can flip it and nobody can open a door.

The latest is — believe this. Apparently if the Republican Party of Alabama, after the election, if Roy Moore wins it, they can essentially say, “You know what? We were not represened. This guy is not a Republican.” They can void the election outcome by simply claiming that he was not a Republican or that they don’t sanction the result because he’s not a Republican or he doesn’t represent, whatever. If the party pulls out and does not allow Moore the identification, then apparently they can void the election and start the whole process over.

So you’ve got McConnell responding to Bannon. There’s no question that’s a lot of what this is. But you’ve also got the swamp. Nobody in either party wanting this guy anywhere near Washington, DC. And it doesn’t matter what the voters want. It doesn’t matter. Just on the basis of allegations, it doesn’t matter, because there isn’t a conviction, there isn’t without-a-doubt proof or any of that. It’s just that they don’t want this guy anywhere near there. And that’s what they’re gonna make happen.

This is a microcosm of what they’re trying to do to Trump. They’re essentially trying to say Trump is not fit, Trump is not worthy, Trump is not justified. There’s a coup that’s been underway to essentially disregard the duly constituted presidential election of 2016.


 
That's amazingly crazy, but it'll probably work.

"This isn't a big deal, but it WAS a big deal when he was doing it because then he was a Democrat." 


In the era of Trump, one things I've learned if is if you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, people will begin to think it's not a lie. We see it on a daily basis.

I guess the same goes with associations. If you repeat heinous stuff often enough, loud enough in the same breath with "Democrats," people begin to create some pretty strong associations.

 
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