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These women arent props for your partisan gotcha tweets. The allegations against Roy Moore are disgusting and if you find yourself reluctant to say so because of your politics, then youre pretty gross, too.
The Leigh Corfman story, reported by the Washington Post, is about so much more than just some older guy having a relationship with some younger girl. That, of course, would be bad enough many girls havent even had their f***ing periods at age 14 but this is also about a man who abuses his power to prey on the powerless. Its about a respected district attorney finding a girl in a vulnerable position (waiting with her mother outside of a child-support hearing) and relishing in the opportunity to take advantage of it. Its a sick story that is all too common, and one that will continue to be common if we refuse to speak out against it.
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If you think thats unlikely; youre wrong. If you think theres no way you know anyone personally who has been through something like this; youre wrong again, and its time for people on all political sides to recognize reality: These men are everywhere, so are their victims, and those victims arent talking points for your partisan-hack gotcha tweets. Theyre people.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453632/roy-moore-defenders-disgusting
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)count on myself to rip things written in National Review. Now I find myself agreeing more often than not with people like Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol. I hope some day we can go back to being adversaries but with a bit more understanding of our similarities.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Strange times create strange bedfellows. If you told me a couple years ago I'd be reading Jennifer Rubin or David Frum et al and nodding my head, offering up kudos I would have said you were nuts.
It is what it is. What these particular Republicans--Never Trumpers--are saying is right and true. I applaud them for that because they've become pariahs in Trumpian/Republican circles. And maybe, just maybe we'll remember our shared resistance in the now and the atmosphere of the future will be less tinged by bitterness and distrust.
A girl can dream.
TBA
(825 posts)WF Buckley would be appalled at the current state of the Republican party IMO.