Jezebel: “A Republican compares himself to a falsely accused rapist to… defend himself??”

Glad to see Jezebel back at it again with great journalism:

With every election cycle comes the inevitable, unsettling competition over which Republican candidate will casually make the craziest comment. It’s only July, but here’s an early entry: Meeting Tim Sheehy, a military veteran and super-rich founder of a drone technology company, And anti-abortion activists, who is running to oust three-term Democratic Senator Jon Tester.

On a Monday Campaign eventSheehy addressed some of the perfectly valid criticisms he had received from Tester’s camp, including comments that Sheehy was trying to “buy” Montana to make it a “playground for the rich.” In an audio recording from the event obtained by Jezebel, Sheehy appeared to compare himself to a wrongfully accused rapist who had been the victim of Tester’s “attacks” on him:

“His ads, you’ll find his campaign is based on one thing: character assassination. He can’t talk about what he did, he just has to take me down. It’s all lies. People ask me how I fight back. First of all, I can’t, because it’s like if you’re not a rapist, how do you prove you’re not a rapist? I can’t prove it, that’s impossible.”

“He’s banking on spreading enough lies about me that people will have questions about me,” Sheehy concluded. “And he also wants me to come out and spend all my time defending myself against his lies, because then I’m not on the right side.”

Yes, that’s not a good comparison. Here are a few reminders of what a true public servant looks like:

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