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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]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)because he allegedly patted a couple of anonymous women's rear ends seven years ago. Franken poses for photos and selfies with thousands of people at the state fair every year (I've seen the huge crowds that gather when he turns up there). If he were engaged in a regular pattern of butt-touching there would be a lot more than two complaints. More importantly, two incidents of alleged butt-patting along with juvenile behavior at a raunchy USO show (for which he has apologized) is not comparable in any respect with the repeated, predatory and illegal conduct of Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose and especially Donald Trump. The symbolic beheading of one of our best politicians for far less serious conduct would be just stupid. It's just as weapons-grade stupid as schools' zero-tolerance policies that cause the expulsion of small children who run around the playground with a stick as a pretend gun, because we can't have weapons in school and we can't even think about weapons in school, because what would people think?