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Response to a similar issue here, reposting to save time: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4131366/posts?page=104#35 There’s some serious concern whether DeSantis is a pedo “ groomer”.

Completely illegitimate. I posted about this on another thread:

From Wikipedia: Contrary to popular belief, only a few states prohibit minors and young adults from consuming alcohol in private settings.

I went to prep school in Connecticut when the age was 18 and just starting to be raised. There were parties at students houses with underage drinkers.

The "BAD" parties were the ones when the parents were out of town for the weekend and the son invites 100 people over and there's lots of drugs, beer bongs, Everclear, etc.. At one such party, the kid was caught because some of his guests stole the silverware, earning him the nickname "Silver" from then on.

The "GOOD" ones had the parents supervising. Numbers were limited, guests lists were curated. Drinking was kept within bounds. Behavior was better, and any drug use was done out of sight.

Almost half of the prep school teachers were young men working on a Masters or just taking the prep school teaching gig until something better came along. A small number of those became "lifers", their wives consigned to Dorm Mom duties, and the teachers themselves to lots of extra sports coaching.

I don't recall a teacher attending one of these parties, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world if one did. And yes, sometimes the young girls gravitated towards such teachers, and sometimes the wives were annoyed.

When the hosts of the party is the girl salutorian's Methodist Pastor father and mother, it is hard to be too scandalized.

The fact is that some of the Seniors and Juniors could get dolled up, go for a night on the town with such a teacher, and it would just look like an attractive young adult couple enjoying each other's company. My wife was 19 when I married her. We married in Canada, so she obtained the liquor license. Some girls don't finish high school until 19. The year I graduated I went to a debutante ball held in honor of a hard-working young woman who wound up becoming a judge. Her family was of the urban black evangelical variety and she was a credit to her family, which is why they sprung for an expensive party at the New Haven Park Plaza. There was drinking, and no carding.

No one was scandalized. Not even in Puritan New England.

Trump was a great President. He still has my support, but this is a bad attack that I would expect from a Roundhead like Christine Todd-Whitman.

Some have stated that the times are different now. So this WILL be an issue. If we let these perv-puritans dictate terms to us, it will not help us. I'm done with playing this game. DeSantis has his issues, this is not one of them . . . certainly not for me.