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Are We Sure About Roy Moore, Or Do You Just Hate Him?
The Resurgent ^

Posted on 11/13/2017 11:34:06 AM PST by TBP

The pile on against Roy Moore has been swift and fierce. But is it right? I ask because few want to admit what is definitely true: the timing is awfully politically convenient and the behavior described doesn't fit anything we know about him. The swiftest pile on over Roy Moore has come not from Democrats, but from a bunch of Republicans who have hated his guts for years. And now it's pay back time. Look, I know I'm going to get set on fire for this piece, but I think it needs to be said.

If the allegations are true, Roy Moore needs to step aside. But how do we know? I have to tell you that this seems like a political miracle for the Democrats with a most convenient timing and most convenient pile on. To listen to most, if Roy Moore is guilty he needs to step aside and if he is innocent he needs to step aside and clear his name. Moore's opponents have constructed the argument in such a way that the only way forward is for him to get out of the race. That's awfully convenient for a lot of people who hate him for political reasons.

Part of my character disposition is that when I see the whole herd running in one direction I tend to stop and wonder if I really should and I have reached that point with Roy Moore. I actually reached it a couple of days ago and it has taken me this long to decide it is worth saying anything given the undoubted blowback from a bunch of people whose opinions I really don't care about (and a few whose opinions I do) when it gets right down to it. I think it is.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: moore; roymoore; senate
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To: Nifster

When Lindsey Graham comes clean on his alternate lifestyle then I will start to pay attention to the Moore allegations—not one day before..


21 posted on 11/13/2017 12:41:49 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: NRx

If the charge is true, even allowing for the reasons why women don’t come forward for many years, why didn’t she come forward with this during the primary? That was only a couple of months ago.

Maybe if she had, it would have been Brooks-Strange instead of Moore-Strange. She says she’s a Republican who voted for Trump. Why wouldn’t you do this for the party, again ,IF true?


22 posted on 11/13/2017 12:46:50 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: catnipman
If this works against Roy, then the same claims will be fabricated against every other Republican to run for national office.

Essentially true, except that the claims will be kept in reserve for neutered RINO's so long as they continue to promote and enact the DNC's agenda.

23 posted on 11/13/2017 12:52:19 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: Nifster

Only a Republican would have a sex scandal with no one involved having sex.


24 posted on 11/13/2017 12:54:16 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: TBP

Thirty Nine and Holding

Jerry Lee Lewis

He’s out there somewhere every night
Where the music’s playing loud
Doing all the 50’s steps, in a 1980 crowd
The dim lights hide his millage lines
The Clairol hides the gray
And he won’t mention anything
That gives his age away
Lord, he’s thirty-nine and holding
Holding everything he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
He’ll prove he’s still a man
He’s holding to a candle
And it’s burning at both ends
He’s thirty-nine and holding
Holding everything he can
You can bet he’ll never see
Thirty-nine again
He should have turned loose long ago
But still he’s hangin’ it in
He still thinks that he is the man
That he used to be
He’s…


25 posted on 11/13/2017 12:55:26 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: TBP

None of Roy Moore’s girlfriends ever drowned in a car while he swam and walked away.


26 posted on 11/13/2017 1:22:51 PM PST by steve8714 (Primary ALL Republican senators. Yeah, all.)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Either lies, stupidity, or a naivety matched nowhere in modern science. And maybe an attention deficit problem mixed in.

rwood


27 posted on 11/13/2017 2:06:45 PM PST by Redwood71 (uality, they want better)
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To: buckalfa

Good post!


28 posted on 11/13/2017 2:12:03 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: El Cid

IF the allegations by the then 14 year old are true, then he should step aside. All the others don’t bother me at all.


29 posted on 11/13/2017 2:25:52 PM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Paradox

Is it illegal to kiss a 17-year-old now and/or at that time 40 years ago? I don’t think “age of consent” laws have anything to do with dating, just physical activity. So you could date someone underage as long as it was non-sexual. I have no idea if “kissing” is an activity that would violate an “age of consent” law. None of these articles are even asking these basic questions.

He emphatically denied anything involving the 14-year-old, which is activity that would almost certainly be illegal now or then if it was true. But conflating the other alleged activity with it is invalid. They are not comparable incidents at all.


30 posted on 11/13/2017 2:32:17 PM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Fraxinus

Nicely played


31 posted on 11/13/2017 2:55:06 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: NRx
the large number of corroborating witnesses

Are the witnesses anyone that anyone has ever heard of before? What makes them more credible than the alleged victims themselves--who are speaking up only now to save the Republic after keeping silent during Moore's 40-year career in law and electoral politics?

32 posted on 11/13/2017 2:57:56 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: TBP

People who dislike Trump believe the stories. People who support Moore believe Moore.


34 posted on 11/13/2017 3:26:32 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Nifster

And besides that, don’t we believe in redemption anymore?


35 posted on 11/13/2017 6:54:07 PM PST by tinamina
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To: DoodleDawg

A good point from a friend:

“Notice none of the people in either party calling on Moore to get off the #ALSen ballot are calling on Menendez to resign, even though he’s under indictment for bribery and is alleged to have traveled overseas to have sex with 13 YEAR OLDS!”

We’re waiting.


36 posted on 11/13/2017 7:04:34 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: tinamina

I have said that Moire has been married thirty plus years and with no hint of scandal


37 posted on 11/13/2017 7:51:26 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Until it reaches a court of law, where he can be judged by a judge or jury of his peers....

.... It totally means nothing.

But the whole story is what gets to “meaning something”. The full story is that so many people are coming out, and many even report that he hung around places that young people hung around in / at.

So there could be something to this - BUT, and I’ve been screaming about this - This is a court thing. If charges are pressed on someone then they are innocent until proven - proven - guilty. So not evidence, not people saying things, but proof that he committed crimes.

They do this crap at strategic times because cheating and crime is the ONLY way a communist gets power in the US. They have to steal it.

Without this, they would never win and the whole party would be out within 6 years.

We need to fight this not because of the content of the charges - because only a judge and jury can do that - we need to fight this because if we do then we can finally get rid of the communists !


38 posted on 11/14/2017 1:53:14 PM PST by Celerity
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