The Patriot Post® · Monday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Ryan Anderson: The Christian Baker Need Not Have Ended Up at the Supreme Court
• John Goodman: Why Liberal Democrats Ignored Sexual Harassment for So Many Years
• Kathryn Jean Lopez: Love, Motherhood and Tragedy
• Richard D. Kocur: Just What the Doctor Ordered
• Burt Prelutsky: Denzel Washington Speaks Out

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Opinion in Brief

John Goodman: “You might think that sexual harassment would be a rather straightforward issue for the party that claims to be the party of women. In the 1990s, liberal activist groups used the issue to almost derail the appointment of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and to force the resignation of Sen. Bob Packwood. But the allegations against Thomas and Packwood seem almost trivial by today’s standards. Later, when Bill Clinton was accused of these far more serious transgressions, women’s groups associated with the Democratic Party defended him. Republicans called them ‘hypocrites.’ But that misses the point. We now know that sexual harassment has been rampant for years in all the places where liberals congregated — on Capitol Hill, in the state legislatures, in Hollywood, in the mainstream media, at liberal opinion magazines, etc. If they cared about this behavior they could have said something. But they didn’t. I hope it is now clear to all that sexual harassment to the Democratic establishment was always about elections and achieving political goals. It was never about anything else.”