They can't seriously expect to be able to run a pedo with the same degree of success as the RNC. Even if they are complete idiots, they know *that*.
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Things are changing though. Clinton was a rapist. I don't think Bill could get away with rape today. I just don't think experienced politicians are a positive slice of humanity for the most part.
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Depends on your standard of "get away with", I think.
I don't see any of the abundant criminal politicians in the US suffer more than a quiet end to their careers at worst, and only really in cases where they lack much influence.
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Oh no, I don't mean that! I just think people would call him out on it. He is definitely untouchable. Criminal justice wise.
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It's always curious to me, in a country with so many psychos and so many guns, how rarely a politician gets bopped.
You'd think people would attempt that more often. The secret service aren't *that* potent.
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Sure, granted, but I mean that the ones that aren't have a strange tendency to target schools, religious gatherings and strip malls.
Though cowardice is as ever a plausible explanation for that...
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But Norwegians are also incredibly passive, and our one murderous loon literally tried to blow up parliament, so...
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He did then go and shoot a bunch of defenseless, completely unrelated kids, so the other half of the pattern fits.
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