Why It's So Easy To Destroy Republicans

If one examines the voting patterns over the last few decades it appears that Republican voters are particularly picky and principled about whom they vote for.

Democrats on the other hand are more interested in what's being promised to them than in a candidate's character. That may be a jaundiced view unless you look at what's happened to Herman Cain's presidency campaign. Just spread the idea that he may be an adulterer or sexual harasser and Cain's supporters run for the hills. By the time this column is published, Cain may have ended his campaign because that's what Republicans usually do. They quit because they know they've lost the support of GOP voters. Democrats hang on forever because their voters don't care as long as you promise them goodies or scare them with bogus horror stories.

There is no other explanation for the long careers of Ted Kennedy, (Chappaquiddick - Google it), Barney Frank, Chris Dodd (Countrywide - Google it) Charlie Rangel and last but certainly not least, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton. They elected and reelected a president that had more question marks on his character than all the GOP candidates combined and it made no difference at all.

Herman Cain's sexual harassment accusers all bore the dubious stamp of Chicago with a possible link to Obama's David Axelrod. Yet they were treated by the mainstream media as victims with iron clad allegations. Contrast that with the many different women who cropped up accusing Bill Clinton of much more nefarious deeds and with far more documentation than the Cain women came up with. Betsey Ross Wright, a Clinton associate, coined the phrase "bimbo eruptions" to describe the legion of women alleged to have been involved with then-Governor Clinton.

Before David Brock founded Media Matters, an anti-conservative website, allegedly with the support of George Soros, he was still considered to be sane. In 1993 he wrote a devastating article for The American Spectator that chronicled the lurid details provided by Arkansas State troopers about what went on during Bill Clinton's reign as governor. That article led to the Paul Jones lawsuit and "Troopergate," the first scandal of the Clinton presidency.

Brock later dismissed his article but Paula Jones was just one of many women with credible stories that were ignored by the MSM and the National Organization of Women (N.O.W.) which regarded Clinton as their pro-choice savior. Juanita Broadrick claimed that Governor Clinton had raped her in 1978 and left her with a bruised lip then told her, "better put some ice on that" before he left. Hillary Clinton wasn't about to let these women spoil her own ambitious political plans and went on TV saying that the stories told by Jones, Gennifer Flowers and other "bimbos" were part of "a vast right wing conspiracy." She has received a great deal of sympathy and support from progressives in her stellar career as senator and Secretary of State but had she been a Republican she would have been derided for riding on the coattails of her husband.

Remember Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fl) whose suggestive emails to a male page forced him to leave office and tarnished the entire GOP leading to the Dem takeover of Congress in 2006? Maybe he should have stood his ground with his colleagues' support and pointed out that those emails were no comparison to what Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass) did in 1983. Studds admitted to an affair with a 17-year old page whom he took to Europe but called it a consensual affair and while he was censured by Congress, he was reelected six times after the scandal.

Rep. Barney Frank's boyfriend operated a gay brothel from his home but voters didn't blame Barney. Nor did voters in Harlem blame Charlie Rangel for not paying his taxes on his Dominican Republic villa even though he served on the House Committee on Taxation. They reelected him last year when he was up against a superb candidate, Michel Faulkner, whose only flaw was that he is a black Republican as is Herman Cain which means he is dangerous to the Democrats.

In a way I hope that Herman Cain continues to fight on and uses this development to expose how the left fights any American black who ventures outside Uncle Sam's plantation. Star Parker used this term to describe how Big Government enslaves the poor and it was never more evident than by the recent Occupy Wall Street protesters who are addicted to government largesse.

The Democrat crushing machine will continue to eviscerate all Republicans in its wake because it knows that the media will assist in the destruction while ignoring any possible flaws in its own candidate. Consider how very little we knew about Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 and for that matter how little we know now.

The media via Politico has clued us into the women in Herman Cain's past but why haven't we heard from any of Obama's past girlfriends? Surely this charismatic man who had viewers fainting on his campaign trail and who sent tingles up and down Chris Matthews' leg must have enthralled females along the way to the White House.

Why hasn't he released transcripts of his Columbia University records? We know that Rick Perry was not such a great student. George W. Bush was crucified for his C average but we know nothing about how the "brilliant" Obama did in college.

After the successful harpooning of Herman Cain, we can expect the media to dissect the career and private life of Newt Gingrich since he is now the front runner for the GOP. When Rick Perry was in the lead, Hustler's Larry Flynt ran an ad offering one million to anybody who could prove he or she had a sexual relationship with the Texas governor. So far no takers but who knows who can be manufactured should Perry become the leader again?

Perhaps due diligence by the media is only applied to the pasts of Republican candidates because they are most vulnerable to the fickleness of the average GOP voter. Would it have made any difference to the voters if Bill Clinton's reason for leaving Oxford had made some headlines? Was he expelled or was he asked to withdraw following allegations of a sexual assault from an Ellen Wellstone?

Nope, it wouldn't have made a whit of difference. He is a well respected elder statesman and most important of all - he is a Democrat.

Alicia Colon resides in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com