Democrats decided they finally found a line in the sand they wouldn’t cross, and surprisingly enough, it brings us back to the MeToo movement.

Graham Platner, the freakishly flawed candidate chosen to unseat comfortably boring Susan Collins in the Maine Senate race, was yet again accused of being too handsy with the women in his life. This time, instead of being rude or pushy, an ex girlfriend claimed he raped her.

Rape became watered down with the MeToo movement, when even a lascivious gaze from your office mate became the basis of a possible sexual assault. But with Platner, the details matched the act.

The ex said he literally forced her to have sex with him while under the influence of some drug, and that is the classic definition of rape.

Democrats were aghast, as they should have been.

But the rest of us were aghast at the fact that it took an actual rape allegation to make them abandon Platner, a ship that was even more doomed than the USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor over a century ago.

From the very beginning, there was........

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