herpseeker1978 wrote:... Anyway, my point is don't make a judgement unless you have all the evidence, unfortunately, our media has a hard time with that, on both sides of the aisle.
I agree with you on the importance of avoiding a rush to judgment (I doubt you can ever get anywhere near
all of the evidence, though
), amigo, but politics is an awfully tough environment in which to survive even a simple bit of honest misspeaking. Whatever this guy actually said and whatever his actual intent in saying it, I suspect he's headed out of office.
Even if unfair, it is at least somewhat understandable that folk's minds go there so readily these days. There
are a lot of... well, "sexual predators" is really too kind to the people involved and too harmful by association to predatory animals... out there. Did you ever watch any of those Chris Hansen/Dateline shows where they baited these deviants to a camera-equipped home via internet trolling for them? What really gets to me isn't the fact that such sickos exist, which is certainly bad enough, but that they're apparently so dang abundant. I'm pretty progressive in most respects, but I'm a firm believer in castration as a condition for release from prison for sex crime perpetrators.
Gerry