CNN's front column this morning jumps into the Comey/FBI fray by saying Hillary brought this one upon herself - if she'd just used proper State Department servers, none of this witchhunt would have ever happened. As Bill Cosby used to say, "Riiiggghtttt". Even now, the Bill & Hillary "Body Bags" count has been extended to 4 more lame ties to "suspicious" deaths of somehow DNC-related people - pimped on by Wikileaks, of course. And the Wikileaks hack of Podesta's email is her fault because she didn't release her transcripts (though they for some reason didn't hack Trump or Sanders' email for not releasing their tax returns - go figger).

Coming across some rightwing column who wondered "why is Bill Cosby is disgraced but Bill Clinton is admired", I was faced with the odd growth of Bill's accusers to 15, including the famous Eileen Wellstone of England who you've no doubt never heard of. Supposedly her assault resulted in Clinton leaving Oxford in 1969 persona-non-grata. Except he returned the following year, and there of course were no charges pressed and apparently she doesn't want to be talked to and has even hired a lawyer to keep reporters off her lawn (if they knew which lawn). And all of this was "reported" by a now defunct Capitol Hill rag as a 2-line throway piece - but kept in business ad infinitum by Roger Stone, Breitbart, and other sundry scandal stokers of the right. Except the one key point - every time Roger Stone talks about this, the "facts" change, contradict themselves, disappear - yet the story never dies. These are the Vampires stalking the Clintons for 25 years - there are no penalties for exaggerating or fabricating. In fact it's a lucrative career if you have the stomach for it.

It should be noted that the Paula Jones case hinged around a "distinguishing characteristic" of Bill's penis - a characteristic that upon examining in the course of court proceedings DIDN'T EXIST. Considering the main, ahem, thrust of Paula's suit was that Bill had dropped his pants and told her to suck it, with lights on, that's a pretty big hole in her case. That he paid her $850K to shut the fuck up only proves that after nearly losing the presidency and his marriage, Clinton knew that anything to put this behind him was money well spent. And it was - he left office with about 65% popularity (and of course has solved his money problems).

Kathleen Willey? Also interviewed during Ken Starr's fishing expedition of a witch hunt - and even desperate Ken didn't find her believable enough to pursue, almost charging her with perjury.

And that's the crux of the matter - we have women who no one's ever heard of, many who won't even give a statement now, or women who have been through the judicial process and lost, which is what we presumably mean when we say taking women's charges seriously. And then we have the opportunistic, like the woman who showed up suddenly 3 weeks ago in the midst of Trump's PussyGate to claim Bill had followed her around the radio facility multiple (20?) times in 1980, masturbating on her back and showing up at her house uninvited. Must have been slow times at the governor's mansion.

Compare this to the 2 known cases of Bill's indiscretion - the first a rather private consensual affair that was only found out by Monica bragging a bit to what she thought a close friend and then dragged out under threat of court, and then some specific unknown one-time consensual sexual encounter with Gennifer Flowers, which she then lied to claim it lasted 10 years along with her loony list of Clinton murders.

Presumably with Bill's "sex addiction" and "predatory behavior", and a $30 million+ budget, Starr could have found an actual 2nd case to confirm Paula's contention, since the way it went down was supposedly standard M.O. for troopers to line up poontang for Bill like JFK's famous chorus line of girls down to his boat moored by the Watergate. But even the famous Juanita Brodderick was shy at the time, contending nothing happened, only to renew her claims once a courtroom performance was out of the question. How convenient.

And unlike Trump, Bill's only legal predicament was caused by lying that he *didn't* have sex with anyone, not going on a national radio show for skanks and various reality shows to talk about how much illegal and outrageous activity he *did* do.

Let's compare all this with Bill Cosby, who had a prescription for Quaaludes and admitted giving one of the victims 'luudes, and settled a case in 2005 over it. Not just 15 women of various circumstance - over 50 women who described similar predatory behavior over the course of decades, many spoken out at the time. And partly around Cosby's favorite hangout over the years, the Playboy Mansion. Including one woman who successfully sued to get her case accepted and then dropped it to prove she wasn't doing it for the money. Sure, some of the claims might be false - but at least 2 are pretty much documented true, and the same routine fits for most of the cases.

As for Trump, aside from suits for sexual misbehavior and outrageous speech and actions throughout the years, he also has his business malpractice and various transgressions against tax and zoning and other legal authorities. He's always played fast and loose with the rules, relying on his checkbook to get around basics such as limits on his tax-exempt foundation, donation limits for campaigns, direct bribing of officials such as in Florida, his many self-serving bankruptcies, failure to deliver services, fail to pay contractors, etc. The "above the law" behavior and mentality registers even in advocating torture as an executive order for the troops that he'd make, or demanding the Attorney General go after his political opponent. Trump's own-it-all behavior walking into a room of girls dressing at his pageant are public and well-documented, as have numerous cases of humiliating talk, sexual denigration and other loutish behavior - the sexual assaults were also largely discussed by the victims at the time with their intimates.

So the reason that charges against Clintons are easily dismissed is because they've been bruited about so many times, including many legal examinations, only to come out wanting.

The reason that charges against Trump and Bill Cosby stick is because the accusations fit the known circumstances, witness testimony, the perpetrators themselves, and legal decisions based around these.

In short, the "both sides do it" falls short. Even Bill's supposed "locker room talk" on the golf links with Donald is unlikely - he's just not the same kind of sexual and general braggart that Donald is. He spends his free time digging up donations for charity, with actual tax records and audits to prove it. If he is having affairs, they're probably quiet, unaudacious encounters. If it doesn't walk like a duck, doesn't talk like a duck, it probably isn't a duck.

Okay, back to getting Hillary elected and shaming that asshole Comey.