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If You Refuse to Condemn Predators because of Politics, You’re Disgusting
National Review ^ | November 10, 2017 | by KATHERINE TIMPF

Posted on 11/10/2017 11:47:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The allegations against Roy Moore are disgusting — and if you find yourself reluctant to say so because of your politics, then you’re pretty gross, too.

The Leigh Corfman story, reported by the Washington Post, is about so much more than just some older guy having a relationship with some younger girl. That, of course, would be bad enough — many girls haven’t even had their f***ing periods at age 14 — but this is also about a man who abuses his power to prey on the powerless. It’s about a respected district attorney finding a girl in a vulnerable position (waiting with her mother outside of a child-support hearing) and relishing in the opportunity to take advantage of it. It’s a sick story that is all too common, and one that will continue to be common if we refuse to speak out against it.

I believe that Roy Moore was a predator with a penchant for teenage girls. No, not because I’m some p***y-hat-wearing snowflake (as eloquent as that argument is) but because of logic. As my colleague David French notes, there are a lot of reasons to believe these allegations: There are multiple accusers. These women didn’t come to the press seeking attention, they simply answered the questions when the press came to them. They have witnesses corroborating their stories. Finally, the woman with the most serious allegations, Leigh Corfman, voted for Donald Trump in 2016 — making the political-hit-job storyline laughable at best.

If you think there’s no way you know anyone personally who has been through something like this; you’re wrong again, and it’s time for people on all political sides to recognize reality: These men are everywhere, so are their victims, and those victims aren’t talking points for your partisan-hack gotcha tweets. They’re people.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: katherinetimpf; liberalloon; nationalreview; nevertrumpers; radicalleft; roymoore
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just a note: an “allegation” may be “disgusting” but that is meaningless.

An “allegation” is just that. It cannot be “disqualifying” as McTurd says because anyone can “allege” anything at any time.

So the real question is, “are the allegations-—regardless of what they are-—true or proveable?” If not, all else is spittle.


101 posted on 11/10/2017 12:43:20 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: All
"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.”
―James Carville
102 posted on 11/10/2017 12:43:30 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: All

If 32/14 thing nearly 40 years ago is so despicable, then why do they still play Stray Cat Blues on the radio? I’m guessing that 50% of senators and congressmen over age 60 once made out with an underaged girl.


103 posted on 11/10/2017 12:43:52 PM PST by Chengdu54
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They would rather elect a pro-abortionist!


104 posted on 11/10/2017 12:44:08 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: goldstategop
This is why I don't believe Madame Corfman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Dotson
At the time, sixteen-year-old Cathleen Crowell Webb made up a rape allegation to explain to her foster parents her pregnancy concerns after having had consensual sex with her boyfriend the previous day. After her 1985 recantation, she described herself as an “emotionally disturbed” foster child and revealed that she had been sexually active since the age of 12.[8] Crowell later admitted her fabrication was based on a scene from a 1974 best-selling bodice ripper romance novel, Sweet Savage Love.[4][9]

Most of Illinois believed this lying bitch. Gary Dotson went to prison. Much later she recanted. Then we have the Duke incident. Then we have the Virginian U. incident. Then we have the Herman Cain allegations. Then we have the Clarence Thomas allegations.

Lastly we have the Jack Ryan incident that led to Obama becoming POTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(politician)

This Moore/Corfman allegation reeks of orchestration by The Deep State of which McConnell is part of as are the Democrats.

105 posted on 11/10/2017 12:44:55 PM PST by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you accuse innocent men of crimes you’re more disgusting.

Someone told me this author molests little boys.

McConnell too. And McCain. They all molested little boys.

I don’t know if it true but they should step down.


106 posted on 11/10/2017 12:45:35 PM PST by Mr. K (NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article is worthy of HuffPo or Salon, down to use of 4-letter words and unsubstantiated attacks. William F. Buckley must be rolling in his grave.


107 posted on 11/10/2017 12:45:38 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: goldstategop
Now people have to quit their jobs because YOU suspect stuff. Really?
108 posted on 11/10/2017 12:45:49 PM PST by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: goldstategop

I would agree if there was proof that it was true.

This strikes me as similar to the “golden shower” allegations against Trump, and Reid’s allegations against Romney that he hadn’t paid any taxes in 10 years. Luckily the American people didn’t buy the allegation against Trump, but enough bought the allegations against Romney.

I hope the people of Alabama stick with Moore... unless the allegations are convincingly proven. If so he can be forced to resign then, but until then I would not reward the Rats’s despicable tactics with a senate seat of a very conservative state.


109 posted on 11/10/2017 12:45:52 PM PST by aquila48
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To: goldstategop

Keep dreaming!


110 posted on 11/10/2017 12:47:18 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: goldstategop
If a 32 year old man doesn’t know what’s appropriate behavior, that’s exactly why he’s in trouble. We shouldn’t be even having this discussion in the first place.

It's individuals like you that have helped to perpetrate and keep alive the Nigerian scam to this day.

111 posted on 11/10/2017 12:49:29 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Chgogal

Why would they lie? When you’re up against a powerful man with lots of money and influence, its very difficult to come out and say things against him.

Look what happened to Bill Clinton’s accusers. And the notion because Moore is a Republican, our political goals are more important than our values, I can’t sign up with the crowd that advises us we should ignore a person’s character for the sake of mere expediency.

Moore is one man. There will be others to carry on the cause in which we believe.


112 posted on 11/10/2017 12:51:23 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: heights

She is a Fox News sleazeball.

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113 posted on 11/10/2017 12:51:25 PM PST by Mears
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To: aquila48

This oppo research was paid for and conducted by Republicans.

And they’re using it very effectively - to get rid of a candidate the establishment deeply detests.

Looks like they will get it their way.


114 posted on 11/10/2017 12:55:20 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If every time a male makes a pass at a female his future is in jeopardy then the nation’s future is in peril for there will be no more babies.


115 posted on 11/10/2017 12:55:31 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No. It’s about allegations that are 38 years old and were never mentioned until a few weeks before an election. That sounds more like yet another lie than it sounds like a predator. We’ve seen this script before, far too many times. We can afford to impeach and remove US Senator Moore if there is substance behind these charges, and then have another special election. We cannot afford to give this seat to a far-left freak based on unsubstantiated claims.


116 posted on 11/10/2017 12:56:17 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Skywise

And when I ask for Due Process, I am accused of ‘Blaming the Victim’.


117 posted on 11/10/2017 12:58:01 PM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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To: reasonisfaith

All they have is her word whom she voted for just like all we have is her word about what happened 40 years ago.

No witnesses to what supposaly happened in private we don’t even have any evidence that she had ever even met Moore.

As for the other girls their claims are so unprovable and subjective in nature even if the girls are telling the truth it doesn’t mean they we’re right about Moores intention.

Personally I think this is all made up hit pease that you get from fishing.


118 posted on 11/10/2017 12:58:47 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: papertyger

I don’t think it looks real either.


119 posted on 11/10/2017 12:59:31 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

“They have witnesses corroborating their stories.”

I have not seen this. Does anyone know if there are witnesses who saw Roy Moore with even one of these girls? I heard some moms allowed it, did any of them come forward?

If there’s even ONE contemporaneous witness who says, or knows indisputably, that Roy Moore was with a teenage girl when he was in his 30’s, he’s too stupid to be a Senator, the moral question notwithstanding.

If not, he needs to hang on and get elected.

If so, he’s not fit.


120 posted on 11/10/2017 12:59:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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