Why is the Democratic Party...including Bernie

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Trying to get rid of All Franken?

Please someone answer this because I'm lost.

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1. franken privately said he's resigning first

giving everyone a chance to claim they "called on him to resign".

they didn't just randomly all get this epiphany at the same time.

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3. So they are helping him out the door

And giving Repubs ammunition.

Great plan.

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7. if they defend him on the way out, republicans gain even more

they get to look like somehow *they* have the moral high ground and *we* are the party-over-principles people.

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10. Calling for waiting until the Ethics Committee investigation...

...is concluded would have been the moral high ground in my opinion.

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11. Link??

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14. Inference.

I could be wrong, but I suspect there will be a story to that effect within a couple months, if not sooner.

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12. Maybe they pressured him.

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2. Hmmm...

Either they know something that we don't or they've fallen for Roger Stone's smear job.

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5. +1, if its the latter then we're fucked as a country because the opposition party is pretty stupid

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13. No, WE fell for the smear job

Or at least the people watching Wolf Blitzer’s breathless reporting of how an anonymous woman recalls a time when a man didn’t kiss her, repeating the anonymous woman’s paraphrase of Trump’s “If you’re famous” line.

The rest is just politics.

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4. The Democratic Party is attempting to show a standard

Because the republican have no standard for sexual abuse. Im a feminist, and I believe women. I have heard hundreds of stories from women in my life of rape and abuse and harassment.

That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in due process. Personally, I think any action should wait until an ethics committee has heard the evidence. I’m not sure why the sheer number of prominent Democrats are calling for his resignation.

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6. +1, and where does it stop knowing there are O'Keefe assholes out there willing to pay people to ...

... make false accusations against someone with a good record of women's rights.

WTF DNC ?!

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8. Political ambition. Franken would have been a formidable candidate in 2020

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9. Dems still think that "morals" matter, they don't matter

at all to the repugs.