Sorry, FRiends, but the story sounds REALLY familiar to me. I read these articles in a great hope that I will find Moore a victim of slander. But each one I read make me feel he did it. The way she AND HER MOM talk about how he got her alone... His grooming, his slow intro into the sex and backing off as if he were a nice guy when she needed him to... I am biased here. He sounds EXACTLY like how a successful predator operates.
His long marriage and kids and grandkids: my abuser has all that. And he was caught after decades of abusing kids, going younger over the years, down to Preschool age. At least it does seem like the judge has no accusations post his marriage.
I’m sorry to not be blinded by his conservatism, guys. Or to assume she is a paid plant. Nevertheless, there is not much proof other than the mom corroborating some of it. I’m ok with Alabama choosing him.
I don’t think she was 14. All of the other girls he dated were older teens, above 16, which is perfectly legal in Alabama.
I’ve been there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3604011/posts
What are you talking about?
Yep. That’s why I’m waiting to hear more. Something is just not right.
I am very sorry for the abuse you suffered. I do think this story is being presented to evoke that scenario.
But I have to ask what are you basing your evaluation of Roy Moore’s behavior on: a single accuser is suggesting this scenario, the other girls say that they had consensual dates, their mothers were asked and they were kissed once or twice; this accuser has accused three other pastors and the accusations were proven false; the story is implausible, the girl had no phone; there is no other suggestion of impropriety in Roy Moore’s 40 year public life?
The emotional strings the left is tugging on are very powerful but the left is using them to play us for fools. In short they are spinning the story precisely to make Moore sound like a typical predator.
Let’s spin it a bit differently as I have heard other Freepers suggest. Moore was in the service and then returned & went to Law school. By the time he was finished 9 years had elapsed and his age cohort had married. Moore was a religious man and wanted to marry a similarly religious woman who had remained chaste and raise a family. He searched among the families in his town and when he thought that a young woman seemed a good fit he approached her mother to see if the family would give him permission to date them with an eye towards courting and marriage.
While this is old fashioned it is certainly not scandalous and would have been more the norm in a poorer area 35 years ago when Fathers & Mothers wanted to see their daughter married to an older man who could provide for her better than a young man just starting out. I submit that this is a much more likely scenario than the WaPo version. WaPo needed to use these details to make their fabricated 14 year old seem plausible.
I believe we all owe Roy Moore the right to presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Proof is not just a poignant story, it’s evidence. The reason stories of 40 years ago are so suspicious is that the chances of proof are so slight that an accuser is free to craft them and the accused is hard put to deny them. We must ask cui bono (who gains?) or cui prodest (who advances?) to make sense of the stories. In this case the jump onto the bandwagon from McConnell, the GOPe and the Left makes that very clear.
get a grip dont be blinded by your unfortunate history use common sense why now?
> Sorry, FRiends, but the story sounds REALLY familiar to me. - - -
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Is someone paying you to be plastering your SOB STORY all over every thread you can find?
Sorry but something smells. Do I recall you saying you are hard up? We could check YOUR bank records.
But here we are discussing someone else’s problem and the facts, proveable or not. Can you contribute to that?