Cuomo's seat getting warmer?

[Dill]

(08-10-2021, 04:16 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: A few flaws in your comparison with Gaetz.  Cuomo did not resign, nor where there many calls for him to do so, until after the AG's report came out substantiating the allegations.  As the investigation into Gaetz has not concluded your comparison is thus a poor one.  If that investigation is concluded and also substantiates the allegation, and Gaetz is not pressured to resign as Cuomo was, then you'll have a point.  As for Trump, you got it right, the allegations were from before his election.  I could counter with the woman who accused Clinton of raping her and how she wasn't believed at all, nor where there any serious calls from the Dems to investigate those claims.

In essence, you're trying to hold your side up as paragons of virtue when in reality they didn't do a damn thing until irrefutable proof was provided.  Both parties are corrupt opportunists who will protect their own.  But if it makes you feel better to be on the side of the "good guys" then who am I to shatter your illusionary comfort?

JJ was not holding up any side as "paragons of virtue." You are injecting this hyperbole yourself. 
He was speaking of the different parties standards of accountability for their politicians.

Paula Jones accused Clinton of harassment before his first election, but RWM payoffs to troopers "confirming" the story tainted it; Jennifer Flowers also claimed an affair with Bill. Not "harassment," but Hillary and Bill came on tv together to address the scandal, which almost tanked his candidacy. 

The Clinton rape allegation, like the Lewinsky affair, only became public AFTER Clinton was elected the second time. Given the difficulties created by Jones and Flowers, there is no reason to suppose he would have been elected, had the public known of these more serious stories.

In contrast, Trump's numerous allegations of harassment and rape, plus the Hollywood Access tape and his porn star scandal ALL came to light BEFORE his election. That supports JJ's "less accountability" thesis, since it didn't matter to Republicans then and still doesn't. While Bill is now a pariah, Trump still runs the Republican party. And who thinks Bill's reputation didn't hurt the Hillary among Democrats? So no, Clinton is no counter Trump. "Both sides" don't elect P-grabbers.

How many count as "many"? Cuomo, who has resigned, faced calls to resign from Schumer and Gillibrand and a mass of House Democrats as early as March this year, long before any investigation was concluded. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/nyregion/cuomo-resign-congress.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6s2IBhCnARIsAP8RfAhgNoOiaT28c4uy8sKplV7GZmRoZjiwFQ2f_9yzr0HuTa6OacAFRwIaAhzLEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

If the charges against Gaetz are substantiated, he'll be in jail on statutory rape, among other things. That will take care of his "resignation." 

The the contrast here is to Al Franken, who was out for far less and long before. 

Were the "opportunist" Dems "protecting their own" then?