Democrats Show Zero Tolerance; Republicans, Eh, Not So Much

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Democrats Show Zero Tolerance; Republicans, Eh, Not So Much
Democrat Schneiderman was out of his job as attorney general in three hours. Republican Greitens? Three months later, he’s still governor.
Margaret Carlson
05.09.18 5:14 AM ET


The #MeToo movement is a dramatic awakening, with moral victories to be celebrated and inevitable misjudgments to be corrected, but with one thing becoming clear: Democrats have zero tolerance for alleged sexual misconduct among its members. Republicans, not so much.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the response to the alleged misconduct of two of its rising political stars: Democratic New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who was accused in a well-documented New Yorker article by four women he dated of choking and slapping them to the point of requiring medical help, one silenced with the declaration “I am the law.” He initially denied the allegations, claiming consensual role-playing out of Fifty Shades of Grey. Within three hours, when he saw he would get no support from the governor or other Democrats, he resigned.
Contrast that with the ongoing saga of GOP supernova Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, who sees support no matter what. Republicans have protected him for months amid grisly revelations about an affair with his hairdresser who accused him of binding her arms, coercing her into sex, and threatening to release a nude photo if she told anyone. You would think the party would be too ashamed to keep backing him after a damning report last month by a state House committee with sworn testimony from the victim. You would be wrong.

This is not an aberration for the party of family values. The party’s leaders, evangelical Christians included, are open about countenancing behavior that once sickened them. A dozen office holders have hung on well beyond proof positive that they’d engaged in sexual misconduct, some having their settlements paid for by the taxpayer.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders blithely plows on from the White House podium in the face of an admission by President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani that, contrary to what the president swore on Air Force One, he did know of Michael Cohen’s payment to Stephanie Clifford to stay quiet and reimbursed Cohen for it. What’s more, Giuliani revealed, the president could have paid off other women as well, and, well, doesn’t everybody. It’s a strange trickle-out strategy. Still the party repeats the mantra “No one cares about Stormy Daniels” in the same way they said it was only “locker room talk” when Trump bragged he was so famous he could do anything to women he wanted.

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1. republicans sit back and laugh at democrats as we eat our own.....

morals and ethics are of no use any more

mere allegations and we democrats jumping off of bridges....losing franken was the start of this bullshit

[FakeNoose]

2. Schneiderman wasn't "mere allegations"

... and I believe that morals and ethics are the point, not the window dressing.
Don't worry, we'll survive this.

[Hortensis]

3. A need to criticize DEMOCRATS is what you got out of this?

WHO are these Democrats who are eating their own? Go eat Republicans.

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[loyalsister]

4. Not so much

That report of Greitens actions exists only because all of the republcans who were on the committee believed the woman who accused him. They did call on Greitens to resign. He won't. The MO general assembly, with it's GOP super majority, called themselves into a special session to impeach Greitens. His impeachment begins on the 18th.

I have no love for the republicans, and I think this abandonment is likely to be related to other political dynamics within the party. Still, this kind of special session has never happened in MO. Getting these facts right is important because these actions should set a tone for holding all men accountable..... One that was defined by a precedent set by Democrats.