Hitting on teenagers by a thirty-something assistant DA is not "West Point ethics".
What this boils down to is whether you want to believe the accusations or not. On the one hand, the accusations are from multiple sources, on the record, and corroborated by the reporting of an ostensibly responsible news organization. On the other hand, the accusations pertain to a evangelical social conservative, and we cannot abide another pro-abortion Democrat in the Senate!
Note I said "want to believe". That's the crux of it. We all believed Juanita Broderick, because we wanted to - and the Democrats of course, chose not to believe. Now some of us, without the slightest trace of irony, are embracing the Clinton playbook - Moore may be a perv, but he's our perv, and the political stakes are so high that we willingly suspend our morality and common decency to back the man who's the enemy of our enemy.
Whatever may happen in the election, evangelicals will lose the most, because they have willingly conceded the moral high ground.
I have said it before so I'm going to try this. Jazzy is marooned on an island with two women. One is a psychobitch from Hell, twice divorced, with all sorts of emotional baggage and full to the brim with resentments against any male, just fill in the blank. The other is 17, pleasant, no baggage, and a fresh outlook on life.
Okay, assuming you are heterosexual, single, male, never married, and will be there an indeterminate length of time, which will you find more attractive as a prospect for a mate?
A dozen years after everyone graduates from high school in your class, the women in your age group who are available will more likely resemble the first one I mentioned. There are no 'dating' apps, no e-Harmony dot com--all of that is off in the science fiction future.
So you go where people are--shopping centers, football games, etc., and you talk with young ladies you find attractive. In your age group, most (if not all) of the "good ones" are taken, married, raising their kids. Their life is set, and you aren't about to go all happy homewrecker on that scene, as any moral individual would not. You don't need the baggage of someone who has been divorced, and there is still some social stigma attacked to that if you aren't Liz Taylor or some Hollywood type in the late '70s.
There are single women in that age group, but most of them are still single for a reason. They might not even like guys. It wasn't because they were 'saving themselves', waiting for you to get out of West Point, the Army, and law school. Plenty of guys got a 'Dear John' letter in a war zone because little Mary Sue couldn't wait the 365 and a wake-up for 'John' to get back to the World, they were not going to sit around starry eyed and wait on any guy.
You sit there sanctimoniously braying about how evil the man supposedly was for looking where he was most likely to find a suitable mate. I don't think you have a clue.
