About 30 years ago, film director Roman Polanski plied a 13 year old girl with champagne and drugs, stripped her down for a “photo shoot” in a hot tub, and then proceeded to rape and sodomize her.  He pled guilty to the entire thing in hopes of a plea bargain, but felt that the judge would throw him in jail for 100 years, so he fled the country.  Last weekend, he was arrested in Zurich, and he now faces extradition to the United States. He was not arrested sooner because he’s been living in France all this time, and apparently the French government doesn’t mind if confessing pedophiles roam the streets.  In fact, they celebrate it, and are ticked off that he was arrested.

The ladies of The View discussed the situation on Monday, debating whether or not it was really rape-rape.  After all, it happened a very long time ago, and Polanski is a very gifted filmmaker.  And the girl’s mom was in the building at the time (doesn’t this fact make it even more gross?).  And even though she was drunk and drugged, and even though she said no, she was aware of what was happening-so was it really rape-rape?  Whoopie Goldberg said, “He was not charged … I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else … but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”

I didn’t know that there was such a thing as fake-rape.  Anytime a 44 year old inebriates a 13 year old with alcohol and drugs, and then has sex with that 13 year old-it’s rape.  Oh ok.  Drugs and alcohol don’t even have to be involved.  It’s still rape.  Real rape.  Rape-rape.  I can’t stand that there are people like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese calling for Polanski’s release.  Seriously?  The dude RAPED a child!  That’s not something to just brush under the rug.

It seems that there is finally a subject to unite conservatives and liberals.  Aside from a few of the Liberal Elite, almost every American is outraged by the reverence for Polanski.  Even the super liberal National Organization for Women has slammed him and his defenders.  “He’s a criminal. He is a convicted criminal pedophile,” said Terry O’Neill, president of NOW. “How dare Roman Polanski think he could get away with this. I believe he has banked on men — powerful decision-makers — who are more intent on protecting rapists than children. This is the world Polanski is exploiting. It’s outrageous.”  Who knew that the vast majority of Americans were against rape?

All of my liberal friends (yes, I do have them) are upset.  One friend in particular sometimes refers to herself as Bizaro-Jenny since our political views are pretty much as opposite from each other as you can get.  Here’s what she had to say about Polanski:

I am shocked at the number of people that are supporting Polanski. It isn’t like he is coming back for a trial and could still be innocent. He pled guilty to raping a 13 year old girl. He has had an active arrest warrant for 30 years. When you pled guilty you know that the judge doesn’t have to go along with the plea agreement. There have been allegations that their was judicial misconduct but the solution to that isn’t to flee the country.

Polanksi disgusts me and I won’t watch any of his films.

Whoopie, Martin, Woody, and all the rest of you that think that it’s acceptable for a grown man to rape a half grown child, simply because he happens to be rich and famous- please pull your heads out of your hineys.  The only thing your dismissal of Polanski’s heinous crime does is make us wonder what skeletons you must have hidden in your closets.  What misdeeds have you covered up in your past, if the rape of a child is an excusable crime?

If conservatives and liberals can unite over the Polanski rape case, what’s next?  Agreement on health care?  Gun rights? Drilling for oil?  Well, one step at a time.