Dems Should Blame THEMSELVES For Graham Platner MESS

The Graham Platner implosion has been nothing short of epic, epic. I mean, this guy, he had red flags all over him from the beginning. And I get why the Democrats wanted to look past them. They finally found somebody who seemed like a real man, not like the Tim Walz fake man with the camo, like man's man. And they thought, okay, this is it. This is what the right wing has been saying we need to do if we want to win in places like Maine. And they just had willful blindness about the fact that it should be somebody who can wear camo credibly, but also doesn't have 25 other problematic allegations around him. And only when they had a leftist come out and say, I love his politics. My adherence to them is the reason it took me this long to come out and tell the world he allegedly raped me. Did they finally jump ship? And we are now hearing as we are sit here at 123 p.m. Eastern that it's a matter of moments before we get the pre-taped video from Graham Platner dropping out of this Senate race. So what do you make of how we got here and where we are? So I have two thoughts. The first is that look, after a while, as you said, Megan, once the allegations and different red flags start to pile up, the totality of them becomes hard to resist. Right. In terms of how to deal with with this. Right. So like if it were just this allegation, if it were just the other one, if it were just the kind of questionable tattoo, if it were just the fact that he described himself as a communist on on Reddit forums, if it were just the fact that he said that he likes, he likes to think of himself as raping, you know, home intruders, not to enjoy it, but as an act of dominance, like any one of those things that you could sort of contextualize and deal with. But the totality, you know, makes it you begin to think, look, this is this is the higher chamber of our legislative branch. And it could be a problem. Could be a problem. That said, I will say I'm as I when we discussed that the last time I was on with Sean and Plattner was on the agenda. I am deeply troubled by the larger sort of sexual culture of which I would argue both he and his partners are victims in various ways where there are no guardrails except after the fact, accusations that are very hard to refute. There was no police report at the time. I think it's worth watching Mika Brzezinski's questioning on Morning Joe of the political reporter. She does a very forensic job. And yes, lots of people said that they wish she had done the same thing with Christine Blasey Ford. And that's a fair point. Nevertheless, it's worth watching because it's a it's a rare case where she like puts on her journalist hat and becomes very aggressive and questioning. And it's worth watching that because even this set of allegations, it look, it's bad, but it's not there are issues. You know, there's there's talk of Instagram messages in which she reportedly confronted him, the new accuser or the more recent one about like his behavior that night. And then the journalist is pressed like, did you see these? And she's and the journalist says, no, you know, she couldn't find a record of them. She said she deleted them all. Right. Again, perfectly possible. But, you know, when you're talking about a an allegation that can not only derail someone's campaign, but essentially ruin their life, I think the evidentiary standard has to be high. And so I have my discomfort with the kind of larger sexual and sort of evidentiary culture that's leading to this. However, to go back to my initial point again, if it were just the one thing, I would be a Graham Plattner bitter ender. But because it's not and because there are so many other character red flags and this is the United States Senate, you know, I say I think his candidacy becomes unsustainable. I got you. I totally understand. I think you're in a very reasonable place. I mean, I confess that I saw Lindsey Fifield, who is the woman who they did feature who the three of us discussed when this hit in The New York Times. She's a conservative and she dated Graham Plattner. Obviously, you know, her politics didn't make her not want to date him. So clearly they're not making her want to sink him now. But many of the critics of that New York Times article that first espoused some of his female problems when I dismissed her because she's a conservative. Oh, she's a conservative operative. But she's out there with with Jake Tapper now. And she's talking about Graham Plattner. I don't know if we actually have this one, but she's she's talking about how he allegedly would take off the condom. Forgive the graphic descriptions here, but like right before and like surreptitiously removed the condom. And I'm thinking to my and then I'm like, well, that's that's not great. I mean, that's you know, you do need consent. But then she says repeatedly, maybe six times. OK, if if this is important to you, after your partner does this to you once, you're either out or, you know, like it's very strange to come back all this time later, years later. And for the three of us, you know, Sean Davis of The Federalist, Saurabh Amari of Unheard and Megyn Kelly of the MK Show to be litigating whether he took the condom off or not and how many times it was and was there implied consent because you'd let him get away with it times one, two, three, four and five. So on six, like, where are we that we're now get, you know, evaluating that stuff and assessing who belongs in the U.S. Senate? And I know it's not my turn, but again, how is he supposed to refute that? Like it's the kind of thing where it's so he said, she said years later. Right. And they both are based on they both say these are based on recollections or compilations of memories. And so it's impossible to refute. And so, again, as a father of a boy, I want to hold him accountable. And it certainly clearly doesn't belong in the Senate. Right. The totality of the accusations is too much. But at the same time, the entire sort of culture we built in which this sort of accusation can derail a life and a career needs to be reconsidered. It won't be in the context of Graham Platner, but it's a larger like national and cultural project we need to have. It involves parents, it involves government, involves pastors and so on. It just as you can tell, I get kind of angry about this kind of where it's like he's he's supposed to refute the condom allegations 12 years later. Come on. Come on. How? I know. Like how? And even with this woman, this latest accuser who's come forward to say that he went into her home, you know, she says she talks about it. She doesn't say he raped me. I told him no. And he forced me. She says something like he's he's violated the language of consent repeatedly. It's like consensually careless. What is the language? Yeah, consensually care. Like, what does that mean? I you know, I get it. He seems like a scumbag. I'm not going to lie. I have no problem with him getting booted as the Democratic nominee for Senate. None whatsoever. But I share some of your same concerns. John, what do you make of it? Yeah, to me, it's just like a story that's a clown car of terrible judgment involving every single person. And I'm going to apologize for coming across is the prude here. But we actually have this amazing institution in America. I call it marriage. And within marriage, sex is normal. It's that's what it's designed for. You can you can do things and you don't have to worry about being accused of rape or non-consent. And I think when people go down this path, when they're being promiscuous, when they're with a guy like Graham Platner, who's obviously a dirtbag that they've had a longtime sexual relationship with, bad things happen there. OK, so I'm not trying to be judgmental. I'm trying to tell people that when you go down that road, you are setting yourself up for bad outcomes. Graham Platner, you're going to be accused of rape later. The women who are now talking about this stuff publicly, you had to go through that. Number one. Now you're deciding to talk about it publicly. So like your husband's get to learn all about it now. I bet that's super fun for them. It's in the news. So your kids are going to read about it one day. Does anyone think that everything that happened here has been good for anyone involved? No. They all made terrible decisions. OK. Sleeping with Graham Platner. Bad decision. Being promiscuous before marriage or ever. Bad decision. Talking in great detail about your sex life to The New York Times. Bad decision. Telling Jake Tapper about condom use in your sex life. That's a bad decision. It's just terrible judgment all the way around. And by the way, Democrat voters, you voted for this guy knowing what was going on, that he had a Nazi tattoo and that he got a little handsy and maybe kind of rapey and you voted for him anyway. I hate everyone in this story. Everyone is an idiot. Everyone has terrible judgment. And can we just go back to all making good decisions that we all know were good? Is that so hard? Apparently it is. All I can think about is Eric Swalwell and the women who came forward against him who were like, and he date rape drugged me and then raped me. And then I called him a year later and asked him if he wanted to get drinks. But I'm I'm definitely a victim. I'm really sad about my victimhood. 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