Gingrich, Ingraham: Dems speaking out against Franken a lynch mob

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Fox News's Laura Ingraham and former Speaker Newt Gingrich late Wednesday referred to the Democrats speaking out against Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) as a "lynch mob."

Ingraham said on her Fox News show that Democrats who are calling on Franken to step down amid sexual misconduct allegations have come down with a "sudden case of feverish morality."

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363707-gingrich-ingraham-dems-speaking-out-against-franken-a-lynch-mob


*I would've thought they'd celebrate it.*

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1. They are. They hope to use it to divide Democrats

[LisaL]

2. Democrats made it easy.

[still_one]

5. They sure did Lisa, and by all appearances it looks like Al is going to come out after leaving the

Senate defending himself against his accusers, and if he makes his case compelling enough, those Democrats will look like fools

[BigmanPigman]

3. Sounds like they are trying to sow seeds of division in the Dem base.

[JHan]

4. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahaa

supporters of pussygrabber have no standing to comment on anything.

[femmedem]

6. They are going to use it to claim the moral high ground the Democratic senators sought

when piling on Franken.

Worse, they are going to use this to make themselves look superior when they fail to condemn Moore and Trump for alleged behavior far more serious than Franken's.

We gave them this opening.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. How does one look superior countenancing child rape ?

[femmedem]

11. By saying the accused deserves a hearing before being forced to resign.

I abhor Moore and Trump. There is no equivalence between them and Franken. But their best defense is to attack Dems for forcing Franken's resignation without an investigation.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. They are sad they lost their whataboutism argument.

If the best they can do is to argue Democratic senators pressured a Democratic senator to resign over inappropriate touching while they countenance the seating of a Republican child rapist that's an argument I'm willing to have.


BTW where was the due process for

Russell Simmons
Ben Affleck
Dustin Hoffman
Kevin Spacey
Harold Ford
John Conyers
Trent Franks
et cetera

Due process means the government can't deprive you of your liberty or take away your property without following Constitutionally mandated procedure. It doesn't mean you can't mean lose your job or status for bad acts ,real or perceived.

[Egnever]

13. by pointing to the willingness to ignore due process and run with a lynch mob mentality.

Lets set up a scenario where this was a republican hit job from the beginning. I don't know if it was or wasn't and now we never will.

For arguments sake lets say it was.

If it was they can now expose those accusations as false because they set them up. They don't need to admit to setting them up they can just expose them as fake.

This would give credibility to all the accusations that Trump and Moore are just victims of political opportunity. Look the democrats fell for a bunch of made up charges lets not be as stupid.

Set em up and knock em down.

Because Dems once again eschewed the hard fight for the easy platitudes we have ensured there will be no justice either for the accused or the accusers and have left the door wide open for all sorts of speculation instead.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. How did we

How did we leap from the argument which is the topic of this thread, that Republican voters will be sending a child rapist to the Senate and Republican senators will countenance it to a discussion of due process ?

[Kber]

7. Signaling to GOP

When the shit hit the fan for GOP members, don’t be a “ lynch mob” like those crazy Dems.

That’s how we lose Franken and they keep Moore and trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. They are sad they lost their whataboutism argument.

When we go after Moore after he is elected next week they were going to say what about Franken. Now we can say a Democratic senator resigned over inappropriate touching of an adult (s) while a Republican child rapist resfues to resign.

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17. But Franken did the very LEAST of anyone else involved, D or R

And the supposed "worst" offense was dealt with at the very beginning.
I just think franked should have stuck to his guns and stayed put. If they kept pressuring him, he could bring up those who have done far worse than he did & ask why no one is calling for THEM to resign.
I think it may very well be a calculated call on the part of the leading Dems, knowing that Minn has a Dem governor to pick his replacement. But that doesn't guarantee a win in 18, and Franken wasn't even up till '20
I just think its ridiculous

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. We are where we are.

Whether or not Franken's resignation was justified he resigned. The Republicans are stuck with a child rapist in their caucus.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Comparing Franken to Pedo Moore...

Comparing Franken to Pedo Moore is like comparing a kid who shoplifts a bag of potato chips from 7-11 with a man who uses a gun to rob a liquor store. We all get that. However that wasn't going to stop the Deplorables from using him to muddy the waters.

Senator Pedo Moore is a " big f--king deal" the GOP now has to deal with no place to hide.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Raising their force fields to protect Dear Leader

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. They are scared to death we cleared the field to go after Moore.

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We are going to make Roy Moore every Republican candidate's running mate in 2018.

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18. Thats the only thing that makes any sense at all. A chess move. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. It was similar to a lynch mob.

Although I hate to admit it.