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By | Democrats don’t just have a Tara Reade problem, they have a women problem, and it won’t go away simply because Joe Biden denies touching Reade and chooses a female running mate. The women’s vote is not that cheap.Reade, like Christine Blasey-Ford, is credible because there aren’t enough reasons to conclude otherwise. People are entitled to the presumption of respect when they report violence.This is not an endorsement of the “believe all women” mantra. I would say the same thing about any person who reports a crime, speaks publicly and files a police report. Reade is risking criminal prosecution and a defamation suit if she’s lying.Reade named people in Biden’s office to whom she reported his misconduct, who deny she ever told them anything. But if Reade were lying, why would she identify witnesses by name, knowing they would probably not support her claims?And most offenders deny guilt. While some rape reports are false, false denials of guilt are exponentially more common.Reade does have credibility problems because she hasn’t been consistent. But several people corroborate her claim that she reported Biden’s misconduct back in 1993, and it’s not disputed that Reade lost her job afterwards. Plus Biden has an undisputed record of violating boundaries of women and girls.Some argue Biden is not the sex offender type, and had an excellent reputation with women in 1993, when Reade says she was assaulted. He was spearheading the Violence Against Women Act and holding himself out as a champion of women on Capitol Hill. But that would have also been the perfect opportunity to assault Reade, knowing full well that women’s groups would never support her over him because the VAWA was a huge funding bill for women’s rights groups. Only two years later, Bill Clinton began victimizing a young intern named Monica Lewinsky but suffered no ill consequences from women’s groups. As the National Organization for Women said at the time, the group “needed him on other issues” and did not mind being called hypocrites.NOW has never recovered from its support for an abusive male over a victimized woman.Many other women’s groups have the same corrupt mentality, as when Time’s Up’s legal advocacy group, housed at the National Women’s Law Center, refused to help Tara Reade claiming they couldn’t because they are a nonprofit and Biden is running for president. In fact, the law does not forbid them from helping Reade. Turns out the PR firm that represents Time’s Up’s legal advocacy group, SKDKnickerbocker, is headed by a woman who happens to be a top adviser to Biden’s presidential campaign.Women cannot morally vote for either Trump or Biden. I’m voting for Minnie Mouse unless one of the old white guys does something momentous to apologize and atone in the style of Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ embraced the Civil Rights Act after openly supporting racism for years.Our next president should follow suit and&nbsp;earn&nbsp;the women’s vote by apologizing for past transgressions, and declaring that establishment of women’s full constitutional&nbsp;equality through&nbsp;ratification of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Equal Rights Amendment will be&nbsp;his&nbsp;number one&nbsp;women’s rights&nbsp;priority during&nbsp;his administration.We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.Sign up for email newslettersFollow UsMost PopularClose

By | Democrats don’t just have a Tara Reade problem, they have a women problem, and it won’t go away simply because Joe Biden denies touching Reade and chooses a female running mate. The women’s vote is not that cheap.Reade, like Christine Blasey-Ford, is credible because there aren’t enough reasons to conclude otherwise. People are entitled to the presumption of respect when they report violence.This is not an endorsement of the “believe all women” mantra. I would say the same thing about any person who reports a crime, speaks publicly and files a police report. Reade is risking criminal...

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