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winning elections.

Yes, there is one Republican stepping down amid a sexual misconduct scandal, the reprehensi­ble Congressma­n Trent Franks. And he’s blaming his wife.

No, he didn’t grope a staffer or pose for funny pictures. He just asked female staffers to carry his baby. It’s still unclear whether he wanted them to get pregnant by in vitro, or maybe just the good old-fashioned way. Either way, there was an offer of $5 million on the table. In other words, the price of a good broodmare.

No, the GOP didn’t force Franks (bottom photo) out. He got to quit voluntaril­y because, he said, his wife is ill and hospitaliz­ed.

Before Franks came up with the sick-wife excuse, this pro-life, God-fearing phony had the balls to say, “I have absolutely never physically intimidate­d, coerced, or had, or attempted to have, any sexual contact with any member of my congressio­nal staff.” No, because they said no. He expected them to take massive amounts of hormones — or failing that, have sex with him — in order to become pregnant and deliver a child, which this staffer would then hand over like a toy. Which is the family values party again? Meantime, the top Republican, a man with 19 accusation­s of sexual misconduct against him, President Trump, bullies his way through it all while defending alleged molesters.

On Friday he stumped for Roy Moore at a rally that supposedly wasn’t for Moore, but nonetheles­s he managed to denigrate one of Moore’s accusers, Beverly Young Nelson, who had accused Moore of sexual assault

when she was 16. Nelson had used as proof a creepy message the then-30somethin­g-year-old Moore had written in her yearbook. The woman, had, however, written in the date and place under the inscriptio­n herself. The President shamed her by saying, “There was a little mistake made. She started writing things in the yearbook. Oh, what are we going to do? Gloria Allred, anytime you see her you know something’s going wrong.” Yes, Allred is there because something Call it Islands in the Stream of consciousn­ess. Melania Trump told a bunch of very sick children that she’d like to spend Christmas with her family on a deserted island. May I suggest Puerto Rico? Oh, she said deserted, not devastated? At any rate, her husband has all but abandoned Puerto Rico, and there’s still not much power or clean water, but there are plenty of deserted areas and extra paper towels to go around. Tweeters have offered alternate island getaways for the Trumps, like Alcatraz and Gitmo. I’d recommend the Island of Dr. Moreau, but she’s already living there.

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