Is Gov. Whitmer open to being Biden's running mate (despite his reputation) because she believes that it would be the ideal path to become president in short order?
-NW

So Joe Biden wants a female sexual assault survivor as his running mate. Why on Earth does he think that might be helpful?
James O'Toole | SOTT.net
May 20, 2020

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Whitmer bravely shared her survivor's story during a keynote address at a 'Let's End Campus Sexual Assault Summit' at Eastern Michigan University back in December 2019, revealing how she was sexually assaulted in 1989, when she was a freshman at university: "The statistics don't show what pain (survivors) carry. It took me two decades to find the courage to tell my story ... The timing of a survivor's report doesn't make it any less valid ... When we speak up and share our truth, people listen," she said.

Concluding her address, Whitmer offered a powerful and personal message to other sex assault survivors: "I see you, I hear you, I believe you... I carry you in my heart every day, and I'll never stop fighting for you."

Except, it seems, if you're a victim called Tara Reade - a woman who also took 20-odd years to find inner strength to tell her story.

Rather than fighting for her fellow victim, Whitmer jumped in and went in to bat for Biden earlier this month. "We need to give people an opportunity to tell their story - then we have a duty to vet it," she told CNN.

Yes, there is a duty to 'vet'. The only problem is the Democrats want to bury the 'vet' - and their heads - in the sand rather than do the decent moral thing and properly investigate the claims. The fact that the party's chairman Tom Perez quickly "dismissed calls" for its national committee to launch an investigation into the sordid allegation makes it clear that the Dems have sadly lost their moral compass in their desperate bid to beat Trump at all costs.