Posted on 11/10/2017 12:25:15 PM PST by Kevin C
The Senate campaign arm of the Republican Party on Friday severed ties with Roy Moore, one day after the Washington Post reported that Moore had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and pursued inappropriate relationships with several other teenagers while he was a district attorney in his 30s.
As the Daily Beast first reported, a joint fundraising committee supporting Moore’s election bid and the Republican Party filed paperwork Friday morning dropping the National Republican Senatorial Committee from its list of beneficiaries. The Alabama Republican Party and the Republican National Committee remain linked to the campaign.
Moore has strongly denied the allegations, calling them a “the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.”
After supporting incumbent Luther Strange in the Sept. 26 special primary, the NRSC initially threw its weight behind Moore in the general election against Democrat Doug Jones.
“Our focus is always on keeping a strong Republican majority in the Senate, and that includes Alabama,” NRSC chairman Cory Gardner said in a statement at the time. “Roy Moore will be imperative to passing a conservative agenda, and we support him in keeping this seat in Republican hands.”
But Gardner changed his tune after the allegations against Moore became public, saying he should drop out of the election if they proved true. The committee’s decision to sever ties indicates they’ve heard enough to withdraw their support.
Alabama Republicans, meanwhile, have closed ranks around their candidate, with many claiming the allegations were a Democratic conspiracy, others diminishing their significance, and some even saying they’d still support Moore even if the allegations of sexual abuse were true.
“I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn’t want to vote for Doug,” Bibb County chairman Jerry Pow told Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star. “I’m not saying I support what he did.”
>You’re seriously defending this? The whole reason we have statutory rape laws is because we don’t think (as a society) that children can consent to sexual activity with adults.
And yet we let underage children screw each other with no penalty.
>And you must not be a parent, because no normal parent would allow a 32 year old man anywhere near their middle school or high school daughters. In my county, that’s considered a justifiable homicide.
Why would you let a boy or man of any age sleep with your daughter and why the distinction between a 15-year-old boy and a 30 year old man in such a case?
Do NOT contribute to the RNC, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!
Ok, so you’re saying if he asked a 16 year old out to dinner and movie, legally, with the consent of her parents, got her safely home by midnight, her virginity intact, that he’s a pervert on a par with Weiner and Clinton?
Lets do a Hillary on the 4 brave women, and publicly call them sluts who wished they’d been f**ked so they could have told sooner.
Now the money is so good they are speaking up simply to keep a horny conservative from winning again? ( Only leftists are allowed to be horny, not conservatives.)
The left is desperate. So are the RINOs in Washington who are calling for Moore to step down. And now plan to keep him from being seated if he wins ( which he likely will do.)
The femino-nazi brave (sic) women suffer from sexualitis, a newly discovered leftist mental condition similar to Trump derangement syndrome that makes them falsely remember that they had been f**ked by a conservative politician who looks like he is going to win.They are not brave, they are cowardly whores.The money must be good, real good.
Femino-nazi slut, sexual shake down artist prostitutes!
Real hookers would seem clean in their company, at least they do the deed they are paid for. Not these “4 brave women.”
And people take this seriously?
Surely the good people of Alabama will NOT!
And The GOPe Senate Swamp critters ? They need to represent the People or resign, instead of looking around to see who screwed who 40 years ago.
McConnell can only refuse to seat based on qualifications, not over issues like this, per court precedent, I believe.
3 of 4 “accusers” allege no impropriety.
The 4th has a history of similar false accusations.
There was no statutory rape in the credible accounts. According to the law at the time, the 4th allegation was likely not illegal, just improper, particularly in the modern view.
Correct: Powell v. McCormack (1969)
It's good that there is a prior court ruling, but expect McConnell to try to get a new ruling overturning the 1969 one. At least he could use it to delay letting Moore take his seat.
I think Moore saying that McConnell shouldn't be the Senate majority leader led McConnell to use the nuclear option...we will probably find out he instigated the Washington Compost hit piece.
Fine.
All of us will just withdraw support from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Financial and everything else.
Screw with us, and we’ll screw you right back - where it hurts.
Ban Bannon, he always zigs when he should be zaggin, no wonder Trump fired him
Since MERE accusations are now enough to dump a candidate, the left will do more and more unfounded accusations.
Yes, but still...making moves on a 14 year old?
In any case I think none of it is true, and hope Moore just persists with denial of all of the portions of all of the events. If he starts trying to justify he could be toast.
“If” he made moves on a 14 yo, it would be disgusting, but “if” is a mighty big word. I don’t believe it ever happened and that’s from following this man and his career very closely for many years.
I agree. Don’t believe it for one second.
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