They didn't expect Hannity to hit them with that false comparison. Moore was from an older generation that didn't see anything wrong with 30 something year old men dating 18 year old women. Go back to the early 20th century, and it wasn't uncommon to have even worse age disparity between the men and women.
Often times young men could not get themselves established sufficiently to be able to support a wife until they had reached their 30s, and a lot of women of that era were married off at 14 or even younger.
Different times, different culture.
Hannity just couldn't understand this background because he grew up in an entirely different situation. As far as he was concerned, anyone dating girls that were 10 or more years younger was a creep, and that is exactly how he framed the interview. Moore wasn't ready to deal with it because he never expected to get hit that way.
You can’t frame the answers properly , again don’t run!
When you have a media-weapon-system that has unfairly framed the entire debate to make you appear to be a Rapist (as they did with Brett Kavanaugh) You are already in territory you should not have had to deal with.
The fact that this was even a topic was the result of a deliberate attack against him by the combined forces of the Democrat party and their media-weapon-system.
You can't declare someone a poor candidate because the media successfully portrays them as a creep, or a racist, or as a rapist, or whatever they are accusing them of.
Was Senator George Allen a "Poor Candidate"? Did he not adequately anticipate that the word "Macaca" would be used successfully to portray him as a racist?
You are looking at the wrong cause of the loss. The loss was caused by the media-weapon-system and weak, pussified backstabbing Republicans like Richard Shelby (Who got on television and urged everyone in Alabama to vote against Moore.) and Jeff Flake, who made a very public announcement that he was supporting the Democrat, and the National party who first jerked all of Moore's funding, which made it appear he was guilty, and then belatedly resuming it.
I am tired of the excuses for him!
And I am tired of people blaming him for a loss that was caused by a weaponized media attack machine and Republican backstabbing.
Moore won by almost 400,000 extra votes in 2012, but somehow people keep wanting to spread the accusation that he was a "Poor candidate". Anyone who gets the media attack machine treatment becomes a "poor candidate".
Again, look at former US Senator George Allen who was taken down by this very same attack machine.
Ok
I was in a Virginia when the Macaca gaffe occurred. I followed Allen from his House beginnings all the way to his Senatorship. He was not a good candidate then, he was “ok”. It was after the first Macaca statement where he showed how untalented a candidate he was. Rather then ignore he kept digging. Rule of thumb in PR: If you feel you have to explain. Don’t! The more you explain the deeper the hole! He kept digging!
Like Ted, Like Allen, Like Moore the more you talk the more ridiculous you look! Its not fair but it the husting game!
And a endless deluge of historical facts don’t matter!
This isn’t grad school and no one is writing a paper.