I have no idea whether or not the alleged events occurred or not. Like most people, I am not comfortable with the idea of a man in his early 30's pursuing younger girls, but I come from a different place.
However, in Moore's defense;and I am reluctant to present the defense.
Moore was from a dirt poor family and perhaps not at the top of the list for many prospective girls when he was first at "dating age". He managed to extricate himself from his circumstances.
He attended West Point and graduated. West Point was not exactly an environment to find a prospective spouse.
He then served in the Army for five years.
Upon leaving the Army he spent three years in law school.
He may or may not have dated women over that 12 year time frame. I have not seen any information in the press relating to his dating activity that covered that period. The reality is by the time he was done with law school most women his age were likely married, or had had, or were in relationships.
Moore is a fundamentalist Christian. Many men, especially Southern men with his belief system, want to marry a virgin. I don't know if that applies in his case but it is plausible.
If that was the case he may have concluded the most likely route to find a suitable spouse, in his view, was to pursue younger women. He did in fact marry a much younger women when he was 38 years old.
The allegations include only one women that was not of age of consent. Her history may indicate a lack of credibility, but in any event, cannot be refuted or proved.
There is a second possible infraction of providing alcohol to minors. Moore has denied that and presented a defense to support his denial, that the county in which the incident is said to have occurred was a dry county.
All the "evidence" presented is circumstantial or hearsay, unverifiable and four decades old.
The publication that pursued the story has a definite agenda and is in opposition of conservatives, Republicans, Trump and Moore. It appears to me to be dishonest and sham journalism.
The Republican establishment is also anti Moore.
Obviously the Democratic party has the same view.
Everyone deserves the presumption of innocence.
It is for the people of Alabama to decide the election, not the national news media nor the corrupt self serving national political parties.
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