Why assume so? He admitted to relationships with other high school girls today just a few years older? If his name was Weinstein, we automatically believe it, and Weinstein didnt even admit to anything yet. Moore just did. Now it is just the difference in a couple if years of age of the girl. 17 versus 14.
One gets you into an R-rated movie and allows you to drive a car. The other doesn't. There is a HUGE difference between 14 and 17, one that a guy who was a prosecutor at the time would know quite well.
Now, why do I believe the Weinstein allegations but not so much the Moore ones? Here's a few:
- If Weinstein is disgraced, no one really gains from that. Politicians have plenty to gain from taking someone out.
- Democrats have done this before: Todd Akin and Christine O'Donnell were both blindsided with attacks less than a week after the election and after it was too late to remove them from the ballot. There are also parallels to the Herman Cain fiasco, which I don't believe was ever proven.
Seldom do these kinds of attacks ever happen in a primary. Other than Cain, who was still close to the lead when he dropped out of the race, Carl Paladino's NY governor run in 2010 and Trump's Presidential primary run in 2016 are the only times I can recall. Paladino won the primary; Trump won the primary and the general. This was specifically timed to inflict the most possible damage to the Republican Party.
- This plays directly into the negative stereotypes of Christians put forth by the alphabet soup lobby, the accusations of being seedy hypocrites. That lobby is emboldened right now after they took out Bob Marshall in the VA Assembly race last night. They're out for blood, and they consider Moore a sworn enemy.
- Given that pretty much everyone's being accused of sexual deviancy lately, there's a strong possibility of there being a bandwagon effect going on. Couple that with the current feminist mindset that a woman must always be believed, and you have the makings of a deadly political weapon.
I don't totally rule it out, but I am very skeptical of these claims.