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I guess the same way someone who has never tried a case is chosen to be a lifetime federal judge

A: Fox News, Hate Radio and Democrats that didn't get a pony in 2009.

whether some law firms or officials had "compromat" on him.

I think child abuse and domestic abuse are serious problems in this part of the country. It's a problem all over the country but it seems like a chronic problem here.

I moved to rural Arizona in 2008. There I became close to my 12 year old niece. I became her after school tutor and her friends (all girls her age) also came over for study group.

I knew my niece had suffered from child abuse by her grandfather (other side of her family) at the age of 10.

What I didn't know was that every other girl in her group of friends had also been molested by a family member or close family friend. It shocked me. I had no idea that there was an epidemic of child molestation going on in rural 'merica. Meth addiction, hopeless economic situations... those I knew about. In fact, the parents of the children in her group of friends (about 5 altogether) seemed eager to tell me about their child and what had happened (not that I really wanted to know this).

Two of the girls actually tried to flirt with me (I was 48 at the time). OMG

I'm told that this can become a behavioral outcome of being molested by older men.

All in all, a very disturbing peek into another (sick) world.

Not like this is his first rodeo.

Powerful, righteous and courageous.

All it takes is some mean talk with a dusting of Jaysus.

When all of Trumpy's exploits came to light, I remember thinking " aha, now that he is exposed for being this kind of creep, no way mothers & fathers can vote for him". I was so wrong. I guess it's the same story with Moore. It just sickens me that even when armed with knowledge, people actively choose to put sick people in positions of power.

We are on earth to keep men happy and have babies and if you let us get too old before we're wives, well...we'll get ideas above our station!
Here's what Duck Die-Nasty patriarch Phil Robertson said about it in 2013:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/31/showbiz/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-comments/index.html

All these well known secrets were only well known in his hometown.

The last election, he only won by 2 % and that was after the monument mess. I'm hoping we do better this time.

The victims knew - cops knew. How did this happen?

If you aren't from there, you don't know. I've never supported him, but these stories never spread out of the area.

I guess if folks could have nominated Jeff Sessions for the US Supreme Court, all things are possible.

I watched an ugly creepy married ex-Baptist preacher, pursue 3 of the female staff at the agency I worked in.
He was the Director, and married. he was having an mostly secret affair with the Assistant Director whose husband was, and still is, the City lawyer.
He would do a Weinstein thing, enter a female staff's office, close the solid wood door and try to get physical with them. For months.
the key here is the women he was selecting. They were raised Southern, which meant, to them, you don't hang out your dirty laundry in public. They were more embarrassed at the idea of making a public spectacle than they were about fighting him off.
The rule for them was "a lady has her name in the paper only 3 times: when she is born, when she is married, when she dies".
They believed people would take his word over theirs....in short, everything we are seeing with the Roy Moore scandal NOW....much less 20 years ago.

The problem got solved in the same Southern way.
somebody ...not saying who....quietly made sure the most trustworthy board member knew about it, who in turn talked with the whole board, which in turn met with the prick, and somehow his very rich wife found out about it.
two weeks later the prick and his wife moved out of town, to a distant part of the state.
the Ass. director became Director for a short time, then resigned to take another job in the county.

The grapevine was busy, but nothing was ever said publicly.

and THAT is how people like Moore keep on with their pervy behavior.

It was more like "We have the right to refuse service to anyone".
Moore was on that type of list.
The list wasn't public.

If Alabama is anything like Texas, SC judges are elected. Often those elections are down ballot and don't draw much attention. (I can't name any SC judges in Texas)

We have so many nut-jobs in the Texas SC and the Texas State Board of Education.

People vote one party and that is why they win.

I read a report on how pedofiles work, they all have dirt on each other so if one breaks the circle, they have the goods on them, hence no squealing on each other.

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And re-elected after being impeached.

Better a theocrat than a liberal. Liberals are pure, malignant evil.

Even if you are a public official, if you take on another public official, you better not miss. Basically, unless Moore was caught with a dead woman in his car, no one would find the guts to go after him.

but he was a perv too.

and Anita Hill exposed him before the appointment

Even people in his home town who knew about him held their noses and voted the party line.