Tomorrow is the special election in Alabama for the senate. Right now, it looks very much like Republican Roy Moore will win, and he will do so pretty easily. The latest poll shows him up by 9 percent over his Democrat rival. Each of the recent polls has moved in Moore's direction. It seems that the concentrated media/ political attack on Moore based upon alleged sexual molestation of a minor has failed. In fact, the majority of Alabama voters don't believe the attackers.
What does this all mean? First, it means that the Democrat/media playbook for an attack like this doesn't really work. Look at what the attackers did. First they came forward with five women who complained about Moore in the Washington Post. Four of the five, however, just claimed that Moore tried to date them when they were 18 or 19 and he was 32. The fifth claimed that Moore had fondled her when she was 14. The 14 year old was the only one with a real complaint. No reasonable person who knew the details of the other four women's stories thought that, even if true, Moore had done anything wrong there. For the media, however, the chant was that there were five women accusing Moore of molesting them. It was an easy lie to disprove. Then the left trotted out Gloria Allred and the second complaintant. She told a story of Moore giving her a ride home from her job at a diner, but driving her to the parking lot around the back of the diner, locking the doors and attempting to rape her. She also produced a yearbook "signed" by Moore to show that she knew him. There were a few problems with the Allred-told story. First, there's no parking lot behind the diner. Second, the car locks that could have allowed Moore to lock the doors as the woman claimed weren't in use until five years after the incident. Third, the woman refused to let the ink on the yearbook be tested for age when Moore said that the signature was a forgery. Fourth, the woman ultimately admitted that she had written at least part of that inscription in the yearbook after originally claiming Moore had written the whole thing. In short, her story was more than shaky. The media also rushed out another woman who claimed that Moore molested her when her mother was present but she said nothing. In other words, rather than concentrating on the one complaintant who had a viable story, the media and the left brought out masses of other women with stories that collapsed upon inspection. As a result, the entire group of claims were weakened.
The other thing that this means is that waiting 38 years to make a claim is not a good idea. Even worse is waiting 38 years as the man of whom you complain is running again and again for public office while you say nothing. Even worse is coming forward only once the primary has ended and the man of whom you complain is the actual nominee. It's just way too convenient to be believable.
We still don't know what happened for sure 38 years ago. If I were on a jury, I would acquit Moore of all charges. It looks like the voters of Alabama agree. The posturing pols in DC may have taken a different stance, but they don't have any information more than we do. They don't know. They need to respect the decision of the voters.
What does this all mean? First, it means that the Democrat/media playbook for an attack like this doesn't really work. Look at what the attackers did. First they came forward with five women who complained about Moore in the Washington Post. Four of the five, however, just claimed that Moore tried to date them when they were 18 or 19 and he was 32. The fifth claimed that Moore had fondled her when she was 14. The 14 year old was the only one with a real complaint. No reasonable person who knew the details of the other four women's stories thought that, even if true, Moore had done anything wrong there. For the media, however, the chant was that there were five women accusing Moore of molesting them. It was an easy lie to disprove. Then the left trotted out Gloria Allred and the second complaintant. She told a story of Moore giving her a ride home from her job at a diner, but driving her to the parking lot around the back of the diner, locking the doors and attempting to rape her. She also produced a yearbook "signed" by Moore to show that she knew him. There were a few problems with the Allred-told story. First, there's no parking lot behind the diner. Second, the car locks that could have allowed Moore to lock the doors as the woman claimed weren't in use until five years after the incident. Third, the woman refused to let the ink on the yearbook be tested for age when Moore said that the signature was a forgery. Fourth, the woman ultimately admitted that she had written at least part of that inscription in the yearbook after originally claiming Moore had written the whole thing. In short, her story was more than shaky. The media also rushed out another woman who claimed that Moore molested her when her mother was present but she said nothing. In other words, rather than concentrating on the one complaintant who had a viable story, the media and the left brought out masses of other women with stories that collapsed upon inspection. As a result, the entire group of claims were weakened.
The other thing that this means is that waiting 38 years to make a claim is not a good idea. Even worse is waiting 38 years as the man of whom you complain is running again and again for public office while you say nothing. Even worse is coming forward only once the primary has ended and the man of whom you complain is the actual nominee. It's just way too convenient to be believable.
We still don't know what happened for sure 38 years ago. If I were on a jury, I would acquit Moore of all charges. It looks like the voters of Alabama agree. The posturing pols in DC may have taken a different stance, but they don't have any information more than we do. They don't know. They need to respect the decision of the voters.
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