Look, defend him if you want to. Plenty of conservatives are, just as plenty of liberals closed their eyes and defended Bill Clinton. I realize that in politics, the result is all that matters. But don't embarrass yourself by claiming the accusations leveled at Roy Moore aren't credible. Be honest - say loudly and proudly you don't care about the veracity of the charges because Roy's your good old boy.
There was not only credible corroborated evidence against Clinton, but an enduring record for such behaviour continuing long after he was married, and supported by DNA evidence.
Bill wasn't up for a senate seat a few weeks from the election, either.
Bill had the full support of the media, who contended the whole thing was "just about sex", with a wink.
The liberals who defended Bill Clinton didn't have their eyes closed, they knew exactly who and what they were defending, and likely knew damned well he wasn't innocent. He had a long track record of bimbo eruptions. If he hadn't bragged about it, Hillary had likely griped. And the cigars smelled a little funny.
By contrast, we have the unsupported (and refuted) allegations of one who would have been 'underage', and the statements of several young (but legal) ladies who said there was no sex. We have the contested report that Moore supposedly imposed himself on one young lady (of legal age), in a situation which others said did not exist (the dumpsters were not behind the building). We have a highly questionable signature in a yearbook which appears to have been altered, if it was his, and which will not be surrendered for analysis.
We have one woman who claims he grabbed her butt. In the office.
We have the suddenly very moral attack dog media going after a Republican like hounds after a bitch in heat, the selfsame moral monitors who told us Clinton's impeachment was "just about sex" (with accompanying winks and smirks).
We have (refuted) allegations of Moore being banned from the local Mall.
The entire media mode of reference is to try to make Moore out to be a child molester, and that poo just won't stick to the glass, no matter how many monkeys sling it.
We even have posters insisting on repeating the "sixteen" year old thing, when the three ladies who came forth said they were 17, in one case the folks said "No" and nothing more happened, in the other two, with parents approval, they went out, but there were no sexual relations.
In short, one shesaid/hesaid, a couple of refuted allegations, and nothing legally wrong done or claimed otherwise. Oh, and asking some gal for a date more than once at the mall, something a guy might well do before he figures out she just isn't interested in him because of the ambiguous way she had shaped her response.
But we do have an election where the Democrats are desperate to grab as many Congressional seats as they can, by any means, fair or foul, coming on the heels of a Presidential election full of dirty tricks and media manipulation of the electorate.
So, if you want to believe that the liberal press is suddenly become the arbiter of all that is moral and right with America, fine. Or you can admit you have a bit of a woody for Moore after he stood up for the Alabama Constitution over the ruling of a District Judge and ordered those in his chain of command to do the same.
