How a Republican would have handled the "Cuomo situation"? He would have gone silent

[Atticus]

for 48 hours and then gone on Fox for an "interview".

He would have solemnly---with brimming eyes, perhaps---announced that he had just spent two days fasting and praying and---"Praise the Lord!"---early that morning God had forgiven him for his "mistakes".

Of course, for several days after that, every Republican asked to comment about the "situation" would piously intone that "If God has forgiven him, who am I to disagree with God?" If reminded that not everyone was ready to just "forgive and forget", the Republican would indignantly walk away muttering about "Godless Democrats".

Wash, rinse, repeat until another event dominates the news cycle. Easy-peezy; page 47 of the GOP handbook.

[UnderThisLaw]

1. By nominating him for President?

[Phoenix61]

2. Or this, nt

[sop]

3. We don't have to wonder how a Republican would have reacted, we saw what Trump did.

[tritsofme]

4. So do you think our strategy should have mirrored that with Cuomo?

[Atticus]

5. Absolutely not! nt

[tritsofme]

6. You never know lately...it seems.

[Locutusofborg]

7. Recent Republican resignations

from Congress due to sexual harassment/abuse allegations.
1) Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) resigned from Congress in connection with reports he paid a secret settlement to a staffer to whom he allegedly professed his love.
2) Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX): resigned due to accusations from staffers — male and female — of sexual harassment and verbal abuse.
3) Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) resigned after news broke that he had offered a female staffer $5 million to carry his child.
4) Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) announced that he would retire in 2018 after a nude photo of him circulated on the Internet. The publication of the photo, it turned out, revealed a secret relationship with a woman. Barton was separated but still legally married when his consensual relationship with the woman began.
5) Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) Strong anti-abortion advocate Murphy, resigned amid reports he asked a woman with whom he was having an affair to have an abortion.