Payne: Godbee, Clinton, and The War on Women

Posted by hpayne on October 8, 2012

This week Democratic Mayor Dave Bing pressured Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee to step down after the police chief was discoed to be in an unethical affair with a subordinate. This, just one month after Bing’s Democratic Party celebrated its commitment to women by inviting ex-President Bill Clinton – who famously had sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky – as its Charlotte convention keynote speaker.

How to resolve the glaring hypocrisy of these two affairs?

Politics. SImply put, Godbeee (and Bing) are not in jeopardy of losing their jobs to Republicans. But Bill Clinton was – and thus the entire Democratic Party abandoned principle in order to engage in an extraordinary War on Women in order to preserve a man as president.

Lewinsky was belittled as psychologically unbalanced. As a liar. A groupie. Only when she revealed that she had kept a semen-stained dress did the president of the United States admit he had lies about their affair. Then, the story changed. Then the MSM allowed that his unethical sex with a subordinate was “his private life.” Feminist icon Gloria Steinem famously wrote that Clinton deserved “one free grope” in a New York Times op-ed. Other victims – Paul Jones, Kathleen Willey – claimed sexual harassment. One Juanita Broaddrick claimed rape. The press ignored Broaddrick. Jones’ suit was settled for $850,000.

And Democrats have the nerve to declare themselves the Party of Women.

Godbee joins dozens of other executives – including Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and two newspapermen that I knew of during the Clinton scandal – who have been dismissed for improper executive conduct with subordinates because its is not their private life. It is Management 101.

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