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If You Refuse to Condemn Predators because of Politics, You’re Disgusting
National Review ^ | November 10, 2017 | by KATHERINE TIMPF

Posted on 11/10/2017 11:47:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The allegations against Roy Moore are disgusting — and if you find yourself reluctant to say so because of your politics, then you’re pretty gross, too.

The Leigh Corfman story, reported by the Washington Post, is about so much more than just some older guy having a relationship with some younger girl. That, of course, would be bad enough — many girls haven’t even had their f***ing periods at age 14 — but this is also about a man who abuses his power to prey on the powerless. It’s about a respected district attorney finding a girl in a vulnerable position (waiting with her mother outside of a child-support hearing) and relishing in the opportunity to take advantage of it. It’s a sick story that is all too common, and one that will continue to be common if we refuse to speak out against it.

I believe that Roy Moore was a predator with a penchant for teenage girls. No, not because I’m some p***y-hat-wearing snowflake (as eloquent as that argument is) but because of logic. As my colleague David French notes, there are a lot of reasons to believe these allegations: There are multiple accusers. These women didn’t come to the press seeking attention, they simply answered the questions when the press came to them. They have witnesses corroborating their stories. Finally, the woman with the most serious allegations, Leigh Corfman, voted for Donald Trump in 2016 — making the political-hit-job storyline laughable at best.

If you think there’s no way you know anyone personally who has been through something like this; you’re wrong again, and it’s time for people on all political sides to recognize reality: These men are everywhere, so are their victims, and those victims aren’t talking points for your partisan-hack gotcha tweets. They’re people.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: katherinetimpf; liberalloon; nationalreview; nevertrumpers; radicalleft; roymoore
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To: eyeamok
sounds like the eccentric ramblings of a scorn woman that hasn’t been laid in a long time.

Or one seeking to advance her career with powerful men by how skillfully she uses her mouth.....

61 posted on 11/10/2017 12:11:26 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guilty until proven Innocent?? Is that the ‘new normal’ for the Left? Intimidation thru lies..

No wonder so many nations see this nation in a dark light.. The corruption is as thick as their own.. and worse.


62 posted on 11/10/2017 12:11:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guilty until proven innocent is what is disgusting.


63 posted on 11/10/2017 12:12:35 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kat is a simpleton. I revile this little _itch. Can’t stand to watch her on FOX or anywhere else.


64 posted on 11/10/2017 12:12:37 PM PST by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where was this article on Bill Clinton. Go to HELL!!


65 posted on 11/10/2017 12:13:50 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The obvious flaw in this argument by NR is that we are not refusing to condemn predators. We are refusing to condemn the victim of an obvious smear. Surely someone at National Review still has the intelligence to understand the difference.

That this is a text book smear attempt, is sufficiently obvious that I used a similar fictionalized smear by an antagonist (The New York Times) in a novel published in 1998, as a literary device:

Conservative Resource Center.

66 posted on 11/10/2017 12:14:09 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I do agree with every word she wrote.

We expect sexual harassers and abusers to deny. That’s what they do - they blame their victims for their vile behvior.

And basic human decency isn’t about politics. Moore has no business resorting to nuts & sluts defense and neither do his defenders.

His accusers didn’t come forward. They were asked to tell the truth. Moore has to prove a negative. Its virtually impossible here.

Whether Left or Right, our current social milieu is intolerant of sexual predators. Even Bill Clinton would not get away today with what he got away with over twenty years ago.

And no, every body doesn’t do it. That’s the exactly the point here.


67 posted on 11/10/2017 12:14:20 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Somehow this wasn’t important during the primary or last year or last decade or last century.

At first it seemed this editorial might have been about the hypocrisy of Hillary’s nasty cat women who excused his behavior in the most base terms.


68 posted on 11/10/2017 12:14:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So, Madame Tmipf, you don't believe in Due Process? OK. I heard from a very good and dear friend that you lure 5 year old boys and “play” with them. Prove me wrong.
69 posted on 11/10/2017 12:14:56 PM PST by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: God luvs America

“There are multiple accusers. “
-x-x-x-x-
Shades of Herman Cain......


70 posted on 11/10/2017 12:16:02 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: reasonisfaith
Seems to me Katherine gets her paycheck from somewhere.

The one and only thing that unites the uniparty is corruption.

Trump has already made some progress in draining some of the swamp. For example, he made some kinda deal with King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and as a result, Salman's trusted son Mohammed bin Salman arrested and froze the billions in assets of one of the biggest anti-American corrupters: Alwalid bin Talal, who owned the likes of obama hillary fox news and twitter.

This all happened last week.

But given what we have here this week, there are still many corrupters out there. Hey President Trump: can you say, "soros and bezos", just to name a few?

71 posted on 11/10/2017 12:16:39 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: reasonisfaith

I don’t understand how it can look “real” if nobody answers how the reporters found these women after forty years of silence.


72 posted on 11/10/2017 12:16:54 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you condemn politicians because some paid opposition party liar makes false claims, you are a disgusting bigot.


73 posted on 11/10/2017 12:17:34 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: S.O.S121.500

Shades of Clarence Thomas.

Only Republicans go down for this. Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy? JFK?

Anthony Weiner only got caught because she saved his naked pictures and she was underage.

They had the blue dress for Bill Clinton and that barely counted!


74 posted on 11/10/2017 12:19:31 PM PST by Skywise
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To: dforest

Kat, you’re Megyn Kelly to me now ;-)


75 posted on 11/10/2017 12:19:57 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Rats must be giddy with joy.

They must be saying, we got them again! Cuckservatives are so easy to guilt trip! This is like playing with a two year old.


76 posted on 11/10/2017 12:20:57 PM PST by aquila48
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To: papertyger

WELL to quote James Carville talking about Bill clintons accusers
“Drag a $20 bill through a trailer park and you’ll get any story you want”


77 posted on 11/10/2017 12:22:02 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Chgogal

When it comes to wrong-doing, we don’t need to wait for the courts to sort it out.

That’s exactly what people did with Weinstein and Spacey. Sorry, but our guy deserves a pass because he’s our guy doesn’t wash.

If sexual misconduct is wrong, its wrong for every one, period and none of us gets to choose which sexual predator we would like to absolve.

If a 32 year old man doesn’t know what’s appropriate behavior, that’s exactly why he’s in trouble. We shouldn’t be even having this discussion in the first place.


78 posted on 11/10/2017 12:22:23 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop
I wonder how the “Press” got those four names? Do you know?
79 posted on 11/10/2017 12:22:49 PM PST by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: goldstategop

They were asked to tell something, and probably induced, too. And no, Clinton wouldn’t be in any more trouble now than he was then.


80 posted on 11/10/2017 12:22:58 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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