This meets every definition of rape. An underage girl (powerless in the situation), a middle aged man (powerful in the situation), resistance lowering drugs, she said no, he did it anyway. Like I said, if you can't even condemn child rape in generic terms...
Except, she choose to be there, she choose to get naked with him in the hottub, she chose to take the drugs, and she had had sex before that. Oh yeah, and she shook him down for $600,000.
So we can both selectively quote facts.
But it does a disservice to call this bad judgement on both sides "rape", because it diminishes women who have actually been raped.
Your partisanship had led you into a very bad position.
This shouldn't be a partisan issue. Either we have constitutional protections or we don't. Either 13 year olds are responsible for their actions or they aren't. (Which means we need to stop prosecuting teens as adults, which we still do when we are horrified enough by their crimes.)
This is a bullshit prosecution over a non-crime. It's the kind of state abuse we should all be outraged about, not because Polanski is a wonderful man (he isn't. He isn't even a good director, IMO).
When the state is pushing a prosecution 40 years later that even the victims doesn't want (because she got her payoff), because some politician (a liberal democrat, no less) looks bad because he bungled the case, that should concern all of us.