I don’t think the judge did very well on Hannity. The little I listened to seemed lawyeresque. Then again the allegations timing is as suspicious. I don’t believe the 14 year old’s story very credible, but there is no law for a 32 year old man woo’ing an 18 year old woman and there is wear he seemed to be having problems.
Judge Moore graduates West Point, goes to Vietnam, completes his Army service, attends law school, and begins practicing law. At that point, he is in his early 30s and ready to find a mate. In the late 70s, women are still marrying in their teens or early 20s, particularly in the South (where I’m from). Women his age are already married with families. The pool of available, child-bearing age women are young. When Judge Moore does marry in 1985, he is 38, his wife Kyla is 24.
The now 53 y/o woman who claims Judge Moore molested her at 14 is from a broken home, thrice divorced, attempted suicide at 16, and has had financial and legal problems. Also reports she has made similar allegations against other men. She is not believable.
The three other women that the Washington Compost dug up were at the age of consent when (or if) they encountered Judge Moore.
Older men marrying younger women is/was common in the South. Female relatives in my family, including my mother, married in their teens to older men and became housewives, mothers to healthy children, and the backbone of their families. My father and mother, both from Gadsden, Alabama, Judge Moore’s hometown, met when he was 16 and she was 9. They lived two houses apart, and my maternal grandmother asked my father to tutor my mother in math. My father completed high school, graduated college, fought in WWII, and returned to marry my mother shortly after her 18th birthday. He was 24 and a very young Army major (battlefield promotions). They wanted to marry when my mother was 16, but decided to wait until after my father’s return from war was ensured. Like Judge Moore & Kyla, they raised four children to honorable adulthood, and after 66+ years of marriage and a passel of grandchildren & great grandchildren, they rest together at Arlington cemetery.
Bottom line: Judge Moore has done nothing wrong.
Jonathan Turley said the same yesterday evening on Fox Report. By and by, the truth shall be known.
I agree. He lost me on that interview...Sean asked questions several ways to narrow it down and gave hime every opportunity to cLear himself..but I found him evasive and it touched a nerve. He didn’t convince me... it’s going to be up to Alabamans to make the choice
Hopefully no one in Alabama takes offense, but since I was raised there and have family there, I will say this. Those not from Alabama have as much difficulty with style of delivery in Alabama as I have with many northerns. His style on a phone was not as well presented as it might have been in person.