I’m not a fan of his ultra liberal leanings. I do recognize he’s done a good job as Senator. He’s built a solid reputation for working hard.
Yeah he screwed up. Dumb, stupid and idiotic thing to do.
The Dems sacrificed Al in order to position themselves to challenge Roy Moore’s anticipated seating in Congress. Hey! We kicked out one of our own for touching women! Giving them the moral high ground to challenge Moore.
Good strategy, until it became completely unnecessary. D’oh, Roy lost.
Can Al still say, I’m not leaving?
I’d prefer letting the voters decide in the next election. Whether Al comes back.
Sometimes the right thing is also politically advantageous. Whatever the motives, doing the right thing is better than not doing so, and pushing out abusers is the right thing to do. So the Democrats do deserve credit for doing the right thing, even if they did so for political advantageous reasons. That’s part of politics, anyway – pressuring people to do the right thing, even if they don’t do it because they’re good people.
Having standards that include “no groping” is right, not wrong. It’s pretty damn reasonable to draw a line for very high office that means gropers don’t get to be included.
And you and I are doing things today, that our social mores tell us are fine and acceptable. But your children will call you out for it in twenty years and expect you to apologize.
Kick them all out sounds good to me. That’s what’s happening right now, as far as I can tell – secrets are being revealed, and perpetrators are being forced out. This is a good thing, even if it’s happening gradually rather than slowly.
The problem comes, though, if it’s only the perpetrators from one party who get forced out. That’s an even worse situation than all of them staying in.
But perpetrators of what? I worry that what was once viewed a being a cad is now a fire-able offense. I’m not talking sexual assult, but lesser issues.
Social mores did say that a comedian could act like they were grabbing someones breasts when they were sleeping. And the good people of Minnesota did know they were electing a comedian from SNL.