Al Franken is a boor not a criminal

"...A sad day indeed! This whole sexual harassment thing is devolving into McCarthyism I fear." "Does sexual harassment exist? Of course it does - we've seen a number of perpetrators fall. In my 84 year old opinion I don't think Senator Franken is guilty of harassment, and I suspect the female senators who have asked for his resignation are guilty of grandstanding for political reasons. Sad day!" 

That's (the first part of) the top-rated comment — with 1963 votes — on the NYT article "Al Franken Announces He Will Resign from Senate Amid Harassment Allegations."

writes AnneAlthouse. and notes this comment on a WAPO article:

What a sorry column. Yes, Franken is being denied an ethics probe and impeachment [sic] and conviction in the Senate. To tap dance around the established procedures to placate a Twitter Mob and a devious, grandstanding Senator whose doing a hell of a Joe McCarthy impression in a dress. And the spineless Senators that lined up behind her are a disgrace to the rules and procedures of the U.S. Senate.

Al Franken is a comedian and a boorish guy who stole the election fair and square (via a close recount that counted illegal ballots from felons etc).

But his boorish behavior is not the same as Hollywood's casting couch.

In the old days, a quick slap was the answer to borish behavior, but now any woman who had the vapors now can have her revenge against any man she is mad at, and collect her pound of flesh years later.

As the Klingon Proverb goes: revenge is a dish best served cold.

Boorish behavior, having a quick "feel" or pinch or even stealing a kiss at the office party, flirting or joking with a woman, propositioning women (or just asking them if they are willing), seducing a woman (who changes her mind the next day) or making a dirty joke is being equated to forcible rape.

Let them write on the blackboard "I will respect women in the future" 100 times, and then let them off.

 There are real crimes in Congress: and a lot of them have to do with the question of how so many Congress people got rich on their Congressional salary.

I'm sure Trumpie boy did a lot of financial shennanigans as a businessman, but at least he did it openly, not by accepting gifts bribes accepting donations to their re election campaign from friends lobbyists to pass a bill just because they liked them.

As for Judge Moore:
I was a small town doctor, and in small towns everyone knows everyone else's business, so the two most "serious" charges against Judge Moore don't meet the smell test.