Many, perhaps most, of Roy Moore’s defenders . . .
But I AM not posting here to defend Roy Moore for political office.
I’m here to defend the principle that a guy is entitled to a fair hearing. And I don’t think Moore has had that.
I’m not saying YOU have to think Moore is innocent.
I’m perfectly fine with you thinking Moore is guilty and NOT voting for him (in your heart in this case as you mentioned you are not eligible to vote in this election).
But so far at least, I am still ALSO fine with someone saying they think Moore is innocent.
But what I am NOT OK with, is people getting on here and accusing good members of “supporting” sexual deviants.
And in all fairness Inisfallen, I have not seen YOU do this here. You have NOT ATTACKED good people in this way here (at least that I have seen).
You are entitled to come to your own conclusions.
Back during the Bill Clinton scandal many people were told we were NOT allowed to conclude guilt about Bill Clinton based on the many factors that people use to come to such conclusions of probability of guilt or innocence.
Then when the blue dress that was . . . well then when there was produced physical irrefutable evidence discrediting Clinton, the whole argument of the NEED to assume innocence was abandoned for . . . “Well it’s just sex.”.
Or “It’s really none of the country’s business”.
Or “This is a tragic waste of an investigation and taxpayer dollars of Ken Starr’s.”
Or myriad of other excuses.
But none of these new excuses supporting Bill Clinton focused around his presumed innocence anymore.
And a lot of conservative voters saw this and said rhetorically . . .
“Do you mean you guys DIDN’T REALLY MEAN IT!!??”
“Ya mean all along all that talk about fair play, and presumption of innocence until proven guilty, was phony?”
(In all fairness, not ALL liberals talked about presumption of innocence, then shifted into OTHER EXCUSES for Bill. Some liberals were principled in this assertion.)
But the end result of that is many of the conservative voters developed a deep distrust when liberals start moralizing about their political candidates.
Now I know that works both ways.
But the liberal answer always seems to be to give these guys (overall, not necessarily each individual politician) MORE POWER. MORE ability to exert influence over others. MORE GOVERNMENT.
And conservatives see this as a self-contradiction.
So when conservatives have CNN, and NSNBC, and the Washington Post delivering up not just Moore, but just about ANY politician who is not a liberal, the voters have a deep distrust of the media.
When the media attempts over and over to “deep-six” the Bill Clinton Lewinsky scandal (and the people find out about it later. Or “deep-six” the Havey Weinstein escapades), the people just are not moved by them anymore.
And in a sense it’s a shame. It’s a shame because of voters who may ditch principle (yes even conservative voters), but it’s ALSO a shame regarding politicians who have abused their power and trust as well as the media who in far too many cases, has been enablers of these antics with mainstream media dishonesty.
And the voters are on to it.
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