Liberal P. Democrat is calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Republican Party until Americans can figure out, ‘what the hell is going on.’ Republicans who were appalled that Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not soothe her palette with Mushroom Risotto, prepared by the chef at the Red Hen Restaurant, seemingly have no qualms about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford being driven from her home in fear. The simple-minded assertion that Judge Kavanaugh is no guiltier than any other young man of seventeen is absurd and insulting to those of us who have spent our lives comporting ourselves like humans and not rutting animals.
I am not denying that I or lots of young men have not engaged in consensual teenage behavior that would make our parents blush. I spent many dimly lit evenings with my high school girlfriend sitting on the sofa sneaking kisses. Never once did I pin her down with my hand covering her mouth while reaching for the stereo volume knob, to drown out her screams if she said no. Despite a CNN panel of female Republican toadies or the fossilized thinking of men like Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, and John Cornyn, all young men are not on the verge of rape every waking moment of their lives. If you listen to Republicans who tell us the danger is undocumented immigrants, it seems they believe the real fears are marauding, uncontrolled bands of privileged young teenage white males.
Oh sure, lots of young strapping teens have a mindset, that if as large as their egos, could accomplish world peace in 24 hours. This is not an excuse that should absolve any man, young or old, from his personal culpability or character. Attempted rape is a crime of the mind and heart and deserves the most diligent scrutiny and punishment the law allows. Republicans still think they are living out an episode of Madmen where you pinch your buxom secretary on the rump before you send her out to pick up your dry cleaning—and do not forget the coffee before you leave.
The string seems endless when it comes to excuses for conservative indiscretions. Liberals have a long and sordid history as well, but as a liberal, I can admit misdeeds and misjudgments, even those I once questioned; Proudly the Democratic mantra is now ‘believe the women.’
The malfunctioning excuse machine is dragged out front and center when the behavior of Republicans is brought out for inspection. Roy Moore is innocent because girls and women lie; Donald Trump is innocent because women lie; Rob Porter is innocent because (two) women lied; Jason Miller, Paris Dennard and Clarence Thomas are all innocent because women lie. Holding on to these clinging strands of innocence are getting as threadbare and as obvious as the hole in the moral majority’s cloak of hypocrisy.
Using the excuse that men are just mindless drones of pent-up sexual aggression that cannot be controlled is silly buck-passing. I am a man of limited talents and limited skills, but I am a man who knows and respects that life has limits as well. The biggest limit stops at a woman’s absolute right to say NO!
Vote in ’18 for Change.