A Last Scott Jensen Take-Hopefully

From Wisconsin's own The American Mind:

(My comments are in bold.)

State Rep. Scott Jensen will go to jail for campaigning using taxpayers' funds. Granted, he broke the law, but doing so was par for the course. (Let me act like your mother: "So if everyone else went out and punched a cop, that makes it all right?) Former Assembly Democratic Party Leader Shirley Krug or current Gov. Doyle campaign staffer Rich Judge were never dragged before a court. (Your point being?) Jensen wasn't even allowed to mention to jurors Democratic activities were the same as his. ( I suggest you take this up with the authors of the Magna Carta, the foundation for the English common law, upon which this ordinary ruling is based. This was Scott's trial, not the Dems. Just the way Scott wanted it.) Is that fair? (Damn certain it is.) Shouldn't jurors be allowed important information to understand the environment of the state capitol at that time? (Don't you just love this defense? 'All my neighbors are rapists, so what's wrong if I get a little, once in a while?')

There's no way Jensen's case should have ever gone to court. (Yup.  No argument there. Scooter should have copped a plea like the others and saved some jail time, some anguish for his family, and embarrassment for the Republican Party.)

But the real point is this:  Any Democrats or so-called Progressives who start showing this kind of fuzzy thinking, it's time to throw them out of the Democratic Party, or find another political party.

Comments

[Craig]

I don't take issue with the trial of or the verdict against Scott Jensen, I take issue with how this was portrayed by the media. Both sides are guilty of using state resources for campaigning, there's no question of that. But because Chvala cops a plea, his case is barely mentioned. He soliticed donations in exchange for specific actions, which is about as bad as it gets. Jensen is a moron for going to trial, but this is not a "Republican" scandal - it's a systematic problem. Lets not lose sight of that.

Also, the other's doing it too defense was quite prominently by Bill Cinton and his defenders after the Monica Lewinsky story broke. I completely agree the other guy's doing it too defense is crap, but it's been used by Democrats as well.

[Tim Rock]

No one said using this defense wasn't crap. And no one said that Dems have not used it either. The point remains, so what. And I don't recall what defense Clinton defenders were using ... others had blowjobs too?