Democrats face hot-potato politics of sexual predation, too

Both parties have devolved into something equally disgusting and corrupt. I think more and more Americans are figuring this out. Americans have been brainwashed for more than a century that "their party" can do no wrong or represents something better than the other. The fact of the matter is that chicanery knows no political boundaries. The political parties in the U.S. are more alike than most Americans want to admit.

Who was gonna “drain the swamp” again?

If you're trying to turn sexual harassment or assault into an issue of party affiliation, you are a disgusting person. Period. Sexual assault doesn't become okay when it's someone on your team doing it.

It's undeniable however, that news stories of right-wingers committing sexual crimes will generally "have legs" much more than stories involving left-wingers. Right-wing politicians are known for their morality politics. When Someone like Moore spends decades preaching that the LGBT community are collectively a threat to children despite the fact that he himself has openly been a threat to children for decades, that resonates much more with audiences than a comedian-turned-politician who grabbed a boob as a gag. That doesn't make what Franken did okay, but if you can't see the difference between what Franken did and what Moore did in the context of their careers, the vastly different levels of hypocrisy in their condemnation of others, and their different responses to these actions, you aren't honestly looking at the situation.

The left does need to be honest about its candidates' wrongdoing, it's true. But there are no movements out right now to defend left-wing candidates who have committed decades of sexual predation. There are no people responding to comments about Franken with tabloid goon squads spreading lies about his accusers, as Breitbart did for Moore. The POTUS isn't endorsing Franken in an election. People aren't considering voting for Franken at the moment.

Which leads to the second difference between the right and the left here: this is not a matter of collective guilt. The right is not collectively guilty of pedophilia just because one of their candidates is a pedophiliac. And yet from the moment this story broke even up to now, the usual shrill voices are still actively defending Moore as if his guilt was a smear on them as well. That's not necessary. No one is saying you're a pedo just because Moore is.

What you have to face though is that if you choose to support Moore, knowing the allegations against him, you've made a choice to do something pretty horrible. Franken isn't up for re-election this December, so the two are hardly comparable - his wrongdoing doesn't have nearly the same urgency. Likewise, most of the allegations against Clinton came out after his election, so supporting Moore's election campaign is not a remotely comparable ethics violation to the left's response to Clinton. Bill Clinton is politically irrelevant now. Moore isn't.

Clinton, Franken, and other democrats who commit sexual wrong-doing certainly need scrutiny and condemnation. But anyone who tries to use them as an excuse to spread a fallacy of false equivalency is being dishonest.

Regarding President Clinton, I agree that it would have been better if he had resigned. On the other hand, I still feel that impeachment was improper, since it was motivated purely by politics, and not by moral concerns. If Republicans cared about morality, Trump would never have gotten enough votes to win the Electoral College.