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Another exception to social norms for Republicans: It's perfectly acceptable to beat your wife, be convicted, and still be eligible to run for office.
Why are so many conservatives odious people? It's a rhetorical question, don't answer. But the latest one to catch my attention is a doozy.
Erick Bennett is Susan Collins' conservative primary challenger for her Senate seat. He's also a nasty wife-beater.
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Worse yet, Bennett is running on a platform of eroding existing laws against wife-beating:
Bennett claims that one reason he's running for office is to try to change domestic-violence laws that he contends enable fraud. "Anything can be considered domestic assault in Maine," he says. Bennett adds: "All I would have to do is go to the police station and write down something. Then, once I get on the stand, I just need to recite that
And that is enough to get you convicted of domestic assault
I never saw it coming."
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/gop-wife-beater-running-against-susan
And the beat goes on... ...so to speak.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)A few more morons like this, and the GOP will cease to be.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They'll claim it's because they're "The Big Tent Party".
mackerel
(4,412 posts)BainsBane
(53,072 posts)If you had posted about this man, the charges against him, and his efforts to change the law without identifying him as a Republican, some would turn up to argue for his case and insist his wife should have been the one in jail.