Were you able to keep a straight face when you wrote that. The "collaboration" is from his interview on Hannity, feel free to go listen at your leisure. As I recall...and I do recall...the late 60's and early 70's was the era of "free love"....not some sort of puritanical era. Even in Alabama, the purpose of dating was to lead into a relationship...not simply to have lunch, as you so disingenuously suggest...and a 32 year old prosecutor seeking that kind of a relationship with a 17 year old...is perv city.
I guess it depends on where you are from, how you will take the allegations. Sometimes a date was just a lunch meeting. A starry eyed young lady might consider meeting for lunch a "date".
You conflate the meaning of the word "date" in a more classical sense with the way it may have been used in parts of the country overrun with pot smoking hippies making out in the park or today's hookup culture.
Considering there were plenty of Americans still signing up for the military and not protesting the War, you might want to consider that not all of America was well represented on television--in fact, the 'Silent Majority" was still speaking at the polls, and hard hats were kicking hippies asses in Times Square.
"Leading to a relationship" also included the approval of her parents, getting along with her brothers and other male relatives, and being a person who treated her respectably enough to be fit for their little girl (which my 40+ year old children still are). You are pushing Haight-Ashbury 'culture' up a more rural America's ass, just like the media tried to. Think more Okie from Muscogee. Having lived through, and dated in, that era myself, in far less cosmopolitan areas of the country, it was a lot closer to Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver than Woodstock when you got away from the big cities with television cameras.
I listened to that interview, and found a hostile Hannity trying to pin a guy to the wall, a guy who had never had to even deal with such allegations. A guy who was pissed off that this crap was even being waved around. Would you be all smooth in your denials and adversarially posed hardball questions in a real interview (instead of the standard rehearsed democrat inquisition), especially if you were not used to being accused of whatever you might find deplorable on TV--even more so if you are innocent?
Moore repeatedly stated he had done nothing wrong, legally or morally. He wasn't slick about it, but those were the words I heard.
Political liars are really good at it. It is their stock in trade. Look at the Clintons, look at half those SOBs in Congress who were going to repeal the ACA, and they are slicker than WD-40 on teflon.
So feel free to project what you might have done onto someone else. For now, I'll do the same in my backwoods hick, gentlemanly sort of way that keeps my hands to myself, and doesn't just up and grab 'em by the pu$$y.
