By Florida Bill These are rocky times for Judge Roy Moore. But Alabama voters who have in the past stood proudly alongside him in the face of liberal caterwauling and mudslinging, may not be any more inclined to forget him now.
Five women have accused him of pursuing them sexually when they were teenagers some four decades ago. Moore calls the accusations "garbage" and more "fake news," engineered by Democrats and the biased Washington
Post newspaper.
Prominent establishment Republicans, as well as Democrats who have always demonized Moore's Christian and conservative voice, are calling for the Republican former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice to withdraw as a candidate for U.S. Senator in the scheduled special election Dec.12. Nevertheless, polls continue to favor him over his Democratic opponent.
Some antagonists have even predicted that if Judge Moore runs and is elected, the Senate will decline to seat him and will expel him as unfit to serve in that august body. That however is far fetched since the allegations of misbehavior are denied by Moore, and there is no judge or jury to adjudicate them. The drumbeat from liberal anti Christians should disappear with Moore's election.
The unproven allegations directed at Moore's morality actually pale alongside the conduct of Sen. Ted Kennedy who was welcomed in the Senate as its "lion" despite his culpability and undisputed felonious conduct in the death of a young woman in Chappaquiddick in 1969.
Also, the late West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd came to the Congress in the 1950s after active years with the KKK, in which he was a top recruiter and had a title of the "Exalted Cyclops" of his local chapter. His writings were viciously anti Black. Nevertheless, the racist Democrat was welcomed by senators with no talk of expulsion.
Principal accusations against Judge Moore have been made by Leigh Corfman, 53, and Beverly Young Nelson, 55, who have contended that Moore, in his early 30s and then an assistant district attorney in Etowah county, pawed them aggressively in an effort to obtain sexual relationships. Corfman says she was 14 at the time and Nelson says she was about 17.
There is no judge or jury to adjudicate these charges. That would have been the case had the women acted within a statute of limitations, but now, with passage of nearly a half century, it is simply the word of the women against a highly respected Christian conservative public figure from the strong Republican state of Alabama.
Ms. Corfman's credibility is at issue since it has been reported that she has in the past brought claims against three church pastors for unwelcome sexual advances and has admitted to drug use, sex parties, attempted suicide and a life marked by bad decisions. Also, she has been married and divorced three times with numerous court appearances dealing with custody, property and alimony. Corfman said that she declined to make these matters public in the past because of the embarrassment and pain it would cause her two children.
Nelson has said that Moore knew her in 1977 as a waitress, admired her for her good looks and then signed her high school yearbook. That story also is suspect. She has said that Moore offered her a ride home from the restaurant and then in the auto pursued her sexually and when she resisted, he pushed her from the car onto the pavement and drove off. Moore says the story is fiction. He says that he never knew Ms. Nelson and never signed her yearbook and that the signature is a forgery. Nelson's attorney has declined to produce the yearbook with the original signature for examination by an expert. While appearing on CNN, Nelson's lawyer, Gloria Allred, declined to say that she would permit her client to take a polygraph test.
How is it, asks one popular radio personality, that Moore's so-called pedophilic behavior has been bottled up for four decades? Just how was that achieved? It does not make sense. Moore has been a candidate in several highly publicized elections for District Attorney, Circuit Judge and Supreme Court Chief Justice, and no opponent of Moore's ever mentioned it, nor did the offended women ever come forward. Why now? It emerges to the applause of the liberal media and bitter Democrats in the short weeks prior to the special election for U.S. Senator to fill the seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions,who resigned to become Attorney General. Alabama may well be the strongest Republican state in the USA. In past years, Democrats opted not to even offer a candidate for some important offices, including U.S. senator.
Judge Moore, a graduate of the U.S. military academy at West Point who served as a captain for five years in the army, is a fierce Christian conservative who has always had the respect of citizens of Alabama. On two occasions, he was elected chief justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court. He was removed as the chief judge by higher authorities when he refused to rid the courthouse of a monument containing the Ten Commandments in response to a lawsuit promoted by atheists. He was later reelected to that office but removed a second time when he refused to recognize same sex marriages.
Judge Moore has said that he will not drop out of the race and provide credence to the bogus charges against him. It is an uphill fight for him, but the Alabama voters, not the media, will have the last word, and will make the decision as to who will represent them in the U.S. Senate.
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Didn't they try this same tactic with Donald Trump before the election? The democrats need a new playbook. They've got two plays; racism and sexual misconduct. People are tired of both and can see right through them.
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