If progressives cared about morality they should have led by example for all these years. They've been a very bad example to conservatives.
The alt right voters they are going for don't care. Donald Trump used to ogle 15 year old girls during teen beauty pagents he ran, and walked in on them naked in the dressing room and watched them (this has been proven) Do you think they care about someone molesting teen girls? This guy won't win of course. These types of voters make up a small minority. Most voters won't vote for him. He willl lose. Just like most voters didn't vote for Trump. He lost the popular vote, and only won because of the EC. State elections are almost always popular vote only.
He will never be a pedophile because he will never be convicted because of the Statute of Limitations. No conviction. Then it is a point of law that he is as innocent as you are. Don't like it? Tough that's the law.
That the voter's call. For me, it would depend on how credible I as a voter found the claims, and how hard it would be to credibly refute them. I sure would not refer to him as a 'pedo' without being pretty damn sure of it. Its one hell of an inflammatory charge to throw around.... but then again I wasn't much for calling Bill Clinton a rapist or co-conspirator to murder either but folks here sure like to do that..
I'm amazed at the defense this creep is getting. What's funny is that many of these same people (rightly) screamed about Weiner and his dik piks Well the hypocrisy is consistent if their morals aren't
dude, you don't even know what pedophilia means (hint: it's not an attraction to teenage girls), so I'll take your warning to stay away from schools with probably fewer grains of salt than you might like.
We're all very happy you suppress those urges. Moore apparently didn't. Please stay away from schools You guys ought to stop. You're killin yourselves here
Well if you think about it this is a good approach everything simply from a technical standpoint. They do not turn on their people when they are accused of misconduct. Barney Frank comes to mind, Anthony Weiner. We don't pick these people because we love them and we shouldn't pick them for that reason we pick them because they are better than the Democrats they are replacing or keeping out of office. That's exactly how the Democrats think and you can't fight rats unless you're willing to get into the sewer with them.
Moore should sue one and all for slander beginning with the tabloid who pretended the 'story' was worthy of print.
Weiner was largely criticized due to his horrendous stupidity. And I did say up thread I think that he shouldn't have gotten 21 months in prison for what he did. Yes, Moore is almost certainly a creep and a pervert. What he will never be is a convicted pedophile unless something similar comes up from no further back than about 2010 or so. And one hell of a lot more evidence than "a minor who told some people"
I understand that you just don't get it, but nobody cares about your puritan values, except you. I'm guessing you're a young man because you would have gone absolutely ballistic if you had been alive 30 years ago. Teenage girls were passed around like cute bed warmers, but hardly worthy of a long term relationship. Sorry, but your puritan values are really cute, but not shared.
If you can explain to me just why Moore in particular should not be considered "innocent until proven guilty" then I'm willing to reconsider my position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia Seriously, this is getting as old as misusing the ol' racist moniker. I could understand not understanding simple English back when dictionaries were things you had to buy at a book store, but there is absolutely no excuse now!
Have you read the threads about Harvey Milk allegedly dating a 16 (not 14) y.o? If the word "pedophile" had been screamed any louder it would have burned a hole in the sun and, BTW, I'm the same age as you.
No, I didn't read those, although I'm sure there have been numerous examples of idiots who have never picked up a dictionary using "pedophile" as a pejorative term.
In this case (if true) it would be fair to say that 32 year old Roy Moore was more of an ephebophile at the time. He's a lot older now so maybe he's grown out of it? Probably should have thought twice about going on to be a career moralizer after the fact though? And it was still illegal and he was a lawyer (once again: if true?)
Child molester. There. All better now. Illegal? Grown out of it? Who cares? If true he's a child molester.