(09-17-2018, 09:01 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(09-17-2018, 08:55 AM)jj82284 Wrote: I loved video games as a kid.  I wasn't really all that good at them, but hey it was a way to pass the time.  Sometimes, I go on YouTube to watch walkthroughs and actually see someone beat the levels that frustrated me so much.  It's really sad most of the time as the gamer explains that the boss/enemy launched at the same time the same way every time.  My 11 year old self never made the connection.  

Fast forward to adult life and politics....  Any serious male conservative comes forward and they're accused of sexual assault?  Like all of them?  The Catholic girls basketball coach?  Really?

I'm not saying he didn't do it, but innocent until proven guilty is all but gone in this day and age.

IMO, there is nothing more morally bankrupt than a politically driven sexual assault charge.

Mitt Romney was about as controversial as broccoli, he won the nomination and there was a story floating around that he beat up a gay student in high school.  There have been movies made about what happened to Clearance Thomas.  Herman Cain was in poll position to be the Republican nominee and u has 4 women make up stories for two seconds.  He dropped out and they went away.  I think Trump was up in the teens at one point.  All those went away on November 9th.  

This morning Conway is talking about having this woman who has 0 evidence of something that happened 4 decades ago testifying before Congress.  This is an unmitigated disaster.  They got sand bagged.  They should have gone with Barrett and we wouldn't have to deal with this scrap.  

We have tapes of people offering potential Trump accusers money to come forward.  That's a contribution that would not have existed but for the campaign...  But Michael Cohen gets arrested?  

#POED

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(09-17-2018, 09:05 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-17-2018, 08:39 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: So, what are everyone's thoughts on this woman coming forward with a sexual assault charge from high school the weekend before the confirmation vote?

If we take this woman at face value, he was under 18, he was drunk, and he was dared into it by an equally drunk friend.  It seems that grabbing at a girl through her clothes was their entire object; they wouldn't have let her get away if they actually wanted more. 
If her story is true, it is sad that she never told anyone, not even her friends afterwards.  She must have been very lonely deep down.  
But him? This is exactly the kind of thing that adult society should forgive in the young, assuming it didn't happen again.  It would have been better if he was held accountable when he was young, maybe suspended from school or something, and the girl got a chance to talk out what happened, but I guess that's happening now.
I think at this point we have to be patient.  If there is a more substantial sexual violation out there in his past, surely the victim will come forward in the coming days.  But if this is the only one, move forward but without calling the woman a liar.

It's not possible.  That's why this could be checkmate.  He'll probably be confirmed but we're already down 13 points with women ahead of the midterms.

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