Cuomo Is Just One More

 

USA Today

The Andrew Cuomo scandal seems another example of high-level Democratic politicians often being reprehensible people. And they seem able to rise high in the party without anyone noticing or, perhaps, caring. This in turn reinforces my growing impression that politics has become of late a moral choice: one cannot be a good person and attain and stay in leadership on the left.

Michael Avenatti was widely touted as a presidential possibility, as was Andrew Cuomo as of a year ago.  John Edwards came close. Elizabeth Warren faked her ethnicity to get ahead. Bill Clinton was a serial philanderer, if not a rapist. Ted Kennedy seems to have been responsible for a girl’s death. It looks as though Joe Biden is in the pay of China and others; his son certainly is.

 Really, are these the good guys?

When a Democrat who looks like a good, sincere human being comes along, they seem to be rejected by the party brass: Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Mike Gravel.

Sure, there are scandals on the Republican side too. But far fewer. There, it seems to be an individual matter, and good men and women can rise to the top: a John McCain, a Mitt Romney, a Rick Santorum, a Ben Carson.

I do not think it was always this way. I think this is another of the consequences of unrestricted abortion. Everyone knows in their conscience that it is wrong. A political party that supports it is in flight from morality.