Before we delve into the politics of Trump's potty mouth, a kind word
about Bill Clinton. I say kind, because I want to reassure you that
this is not the typical attempt at equivalence between Donald and Bill.
Bill is not the candidate. Hillary is.
Bill Clinton is the
Democrats' favorite president. You might get a "ho-hum" about Jimmy
Carter. Barack Obama can fill a room, but no one excites the hearts and
minds of Democrats like Bill Clinton, even if most of what they remember
of his presidency is obscured by too many bong hits and not enough
sleep. Whatever.
I heard one commentator on the
scandalous Trump hot mic tape say, that it wasn't the locker room talk
so much as the idea that Trump was projecting, that someone famous
enough, rich enough, powerful enough could commit a sexual assault on a
woman and get away with it. Much like, say, a former President. But,
then, this isn't about Bill!
Instead, imagine if you
will, that Trump had gone a little farther than what he said on the hot
mic, and been even more disgusting. What if he'd told Billy Bush that
he'd actually raped a 12 year old girl. That he "raped her so hard, he
put her in a coma!" Billy Bush would no doubt stop laughing. As would we
all.
But let's say Trump hires an attorney to get him
off. Specifically a female attorney, who might be able to attack his
accuser with more impunity. One who believed he was guilty, and said
that when her client passed a lie detector test, she "stopped believing
in lie detectors after that." In Trump's defense, she attacks the
teenage rape victim as a slut who pursued older men. That's right! She
wanted it! And after managing to get the physical evidence thrown out,
her client goes free after only time served.
Now, before you get your habeas corpus
in a uproar, yes, I believe that every person, even the guilty ones are
entitled to a defense under the law. That's not the problem here. It's
that in an interview years later, the attorney laughed about it.
Can
you please tell me what could possibly be funny about the brutal rape
of a twelve year old girl, browbeating her over supposed prior sexual
activity, blaming the victim, and getting a child rapist set free,
perhaps to rape again? Are any of you laughing now?
Now
tell me how that attorney, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is supposed to be
more respectful to women than a man who made a crude and childish remark
not to a woman, but about a woman, over ten years ago? We'll wait.
"Goes to character?" Yes. Doesn't it?
