There is only one argument in support of Franken
That the allegations are not credible. PERIOD. Any other argument does not work or is hypocritical.
I am hearing the same people who told Moore supporters that this is politics and not a court of law now say Franken deserves due process. If Franken wants due process he will get it, by the way.
I am hearing people say that Republicans get away with it. That's the worse argument yet; should we speed the degradation of politics along it's way?
I am hearing that the bigger progressive goals are too important to hold an individual responsible for harrassing behavior. Really? The end justify the means? If we don't hold to our principles, how are we better?
Almost everyone pointing out that the taking the moral high ground isn't helping us. Don't people understand that if we don't hold onto the very best we can, than those who don't will only drag us down more easily? I believe we are in the middle of a huge political backlash right now. Moore, Trump and company are the result of those who have held privilege acting out of fear of losing it. But the arc of progressivism is still climbing over the long haul. In fits and starts, sure. There will be backsliding, but how far back actually depends on how hard we hold on to those principles that move us upward.
So for me, the only argument I will only listen to is that the allegations are not credible. Everything else is hypocracy.
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I will always vote a straight Dem ticket - unless they go completely bat-shit crazy but I refuse to give any more of my hard earned money to help support them ever again. They are not ALL working for us. Already their actions on calling for Senator Franken to resign shows they have either been bought out or are just too gutless or worse case scenario they are just completely stupid and too ignorant to see when a GOP funded propaganda stunt like this is targeting their own. Instead of fighting it just caving in thinking they are taking a high moral road.
See how far that will get them in 2018 if they keep eating their own.
We wouldn't be in this mess if they grew a backbone and stood up and defended their party and positions more. Instead we have Nazis in the White House and soon to be Pedo in the Senate. A Sexual Predator for a damn President and no where is anyone holding them accountable for their sex crimes! But yeah, sure, lets throw Franken under the bus. Why not? 
for an Ethics Committee investigation. He knows perfectly well that when all the evidence is presented, he will be cleared. Not only that, he may well be able to sue Tweeden for slander.
From all I can see from watching and listening to Franken, my take is that he is naturally affectionate with people -- both male and female. I have a friend who he reminds me of, about the same height (5'6"
, who always greets me with a hug and sometimes even pats my bum. That IS NOT groping. A cousin says she encountered him when taking her class on a trip to Washington, and she claims he gave her a "creepy massage". What she really meant was that he casually rubbed her back when the group photo was taken. I'm betting Franken would be horrified to know that an affectionate gesture on his part was mistaken for a "creepy massage". Herding a big class of youngsters in a strange place deserved a casual back rub, I suspect he was thinking.
Overtures of a sexual nature (either verbal or physical) are out of place in today's society, so I suggest that any male over the age of 55 need to adjust their behaviour. On the other hand, we females do ourselves no favours when we make mountains out of molehills (such as has happened in our own Canadian Parliament where a female MP had the figurative vapours and made a huge fuss over sexually explicit joke made by a male MP -- hey, get a grip, lady!).
What's the rush to get a good senator to resign? 
This is exactly what they wanted! We saw Moore’s accusers on TV make statements of serious poaching of young girls. Franken has some anonymous women saying he squeezed their waist in a picture. Wow, now Franken has to go and Moore gets in. Hook. Line. Sinker.
I think that we can agree that the allegations are credible and worthy of concern without also saying that we think he needs to resign. There is a palpable difference between what Franken has been accused of doing and what Moore has been alleged to have done (with a lot more substantiating evidence) and Franken has made some apologies and voluntarily agreed to submit himself to an ethics investigations. The two cases are simply not the same. In our desire to confront this problem, do we now remove consideration of severity from consideration and treat everything as equally bad, wrong, worthy of resignation, etc?
"Everything else is hypocracy (sic)..."
If one denies the relevant differences of degrees and applies only a foolish consistency, it could certainly be perceived as duplicity and sanctimony.
However, if one allows for difference of degrees, and forgoes the rhetorical pretense of a rigid dogma, then its stands to reason we're forced to entertain additional possibilities... but as you won't listen or allow that, oh well...
