I may get banned for this, but

[hunter]

63. This perspective is bullshit.

Should we be like the Republicans, ignoring or silencing their victims?

I think not.

The Democratic Party has a deep bench of highly qualified and electable candidates who are not sex pests or abusers. We don't have to compromise. We don't have to shrug our shoulders, mutter "boys will be boys" and look away when shit like this is exposed. It's better to assume that "where there is smoke there is fire" than to dismiss the claims of credible women as some kind of hysterical morning-after regret.

It can't be all that difficult to find candidates who are not creepy and have never had the sort of sex that anyone regrets afterwards.