[conservatism_IS_compassion]

he didn’t date 14 year olds when he was 30, which is apparently something we need to keep a good eye on.

it was Alabama in the 70s. Parents were probably thrilled their little girl was seeing a lawyer. “They make good money.” - Pollard

The other side of the coin is that that was not traditionally frowned on in some places.

And the beef about pedophiles is that they never change. Judge Moore ultimately married to a woman 15 years his junior. Same age difference in absolute years, but no issue of “pedophilia” arose in his marriage - or at any time since.

People who retroactively beef about Moore’s courtship of younger women can’t take “yes” for an answer.

[JohnBrowdie]

ah, a new trick by the moore crowd; “everybody did it in Alabama” is a malignant slur against the people of the state.

and obviously wrong as hell. there were apparently a lot of perfectly reasonable conservatives that that frowned on his dating practices in AL, because he lost a senate seat that had been republican since freaking howell heflin.