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In reply to the discussion: Everyone Seems to Be in a Big Hurry to Write Off Sen. Franken. Why? [View all]Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Franken is a great voice for us, and appears to be a genuinely lovely guy.
What I'm desperate to avoid though is taking that at face value, entering into a full blooded defense and then something coming out that proves that we were wrong and that he actually did those things. Because then not only will our full blooded defense be used by repugs as attacks, but more importantly we'll have called a bunch of victims of sexual assault liars because their attacker was one of our own.
I'm certainly not in the 'throw him under the bus' group, and I don't want him to resign at the moment, but I think being careful is still very much the correct position until we know more. If its true that one of the anomymous women told a journalist at the time about the incident, then that changes things.