I totally missed that the boyfriend at the time of the Annual Chick has come out and said she is lying.

I have not seen any printed articles on that yet.

I think the MSM/GOPe expected him to fold at the mere mention of this like their weak spined ass.

I think the fact that we have a secret slush fund to make sexual harassment claims go away is total bullshit.

On two things. If they are guilty of sexual harassment they should be removed from office. We shouldn't have an ATM to make accusations and payouts.

Alabama police chief suspended for making 'sarcastic' sex abuse statements on Facebook

A small-town Alabama police chief has been suspended after making "sarcastic" statements about sexual abuse on Facebook.

Killen police Chief Bryan Hammond wrote on Facebook that "silence is consent" and made what he called a joke about being sexually assaulted by U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Doug Jones.

Hammond is suspended for 15 days without pay because of the comments that were reported by AL.com, said Killen Mayor Tim Tubbs. The mayor declined to comment further on the situation.

Hammond's Facebook comments came in the wake of sexual assault allegations against U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore. AL.com first reported on the comments this past Friday.

"On another note, Doug Jones fondled me on a boy scout camping trip in 1978," Hammond wrote in a Facebook comment. "I wasn't gonna say anything, but I just couldn't stand the thought of him being a senator. I was ok with it until now. By the way, you can't see me right now but I'm crying as I type this."

In a phone interview with AL.com, Hammond said none of it was true, that he was making a joke.

"That was sarcasm," the chief said.

Hammond also posted a photo of a yearbook signature purportedly from Jones. The photo shows this hand-written message: "Bryan, Thanks for the great time camping. Doug Jones."
Hammond's statements appeared on a thread of comments on a TV station article about Beverly Young Nelson, a woman who has accused Moore of trying to rape her in 1977 when she was 16 and he was 30-something. Nelson at a press conference with lawyer Gloria Allred earlier this week showed a yearbook that she claims Moore signed.

Click here to read AL.com's coverage of Roy Moore.
Hammond's comments appear on a Facebook post that was made by a woman on his friend list. The post, which shares a news article about Nelson, includes the phrases "Fake News" and "Vote Roy Moore!" It also shows American flag and heart emojis. The post was deleted after AL.com contacted Hammond Friday.

Hammond has been working in law enforcement for over two decades. His career at Killen began in 1998, according to the police department's website. Killen is a northwest Alabama town of about 1,000 in Lauderdale County.

The TimesDaily first reported Hammond's suspension.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/killen_police_chief_bryan_hamm.html#incart_river_home_pop

New Senate polls have Roy Moore in lead, Doug Jones close

Three weeks before election day, two Alabama Senate polls released Tuesday illustrated different pictures of the race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore.

One poll commissioned by Raycom News Network in Alabama had the race in a statistical tie with Moore holding a 2-point lead while a poll released by Moore-friendly Breitbart News showed him with a 6-point lead.

Moore held an 11-point lead in a Raycom poll released the day before The Washington Post published allegations by women who said that, when they were teens, Moore made unwanted sexual and romantic overtures.

Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations.

The Raycom poll had Moore with 47 percent of the vote, Jones with 45 percent, 5 percent undecided and 3 percent planning to cast write-in votes. Raycom said 3,000 likely voters were surveyed by Mobile-based Strategy Research and that the poll has a margin of error of 2 percent. The Raycom story did not say when the poll was conducted.

When asked "what do you think about the allegations made against Roy Moore," 45% believe all or some of the allegations; 34% do not believe the allegations; and 21% believe some or all of the allegations, but say it has not changed their vote, according to Raycom.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/new_senate_polls_have_roy_moor.html#incart_river_home

Roy Moore campaign: 'Y'all can quit asking us questions'

Allies of Roy Moore pointed out what they said were contradictions or falsehoods in the accusations by two women who say Moore had sexual encounters with them when they were ages 14 and 16 and he was in his early 30s.

Moore had denied both allegations before today, but his supporters said new information backs up those denials and undermines the accusations.

Ben DuPre, Moore's former chief of staff at the Alabama Supreme Court, Stan Cooke, a Birmingham-area minister and former candidate for lieutenant governor, and Dean Young, chief political strategist for the Moore campaign, attacked the credibility of Moore accusers Leigh Corfman and Beverly Young Nelson.

The three men spoke at what was announced as a press conference on the Capitol steps but refused to answer questions after they finished their statements.

"We're going to talk about helping Donald Trump, making America great again," Young said. "So y'all can quit asking us questions. Quit yelling stuff. Quit being rude. We're going to say what we're going to say and Alabamians, don't be tricked by this crowd."

Today, DuPre pointed out what he said were inconsistencies, omissions or improbable facts in Corfman's story. He quoted a document from Corfman's parents divorce case that says Corfman was having behavioral problems at the time of the alleged encounter with Moore.

"The lies and character assassination of Judge Roy Moore ends today," DuPre said.

In the Nov. 9 story, Corfman said Moore met her at the Etowah County Courthouse where Corfman and her mother were waiting on a child custody hearing in early 1979, when Corfman was 14 and Moore was 32.

Corfman said Moore got her phone number and later called and arranged to meet her. Corfman said Moore took her to his house twice, and on the second visit, undressed her and himself to their underwear and touched her through her underwear while placing her hand on his crotch.

DuPre said Moore has never known Corfman.

"Her story has been told in only the vaguest of terms without any investigation by the media," DuPre said.

DuPre outlined what he said were multiple problems with Corfman's account, as told to the Post and NBC's Today.

"Corfman alleges, number one, that she was with her mother at a court hearing in early 1979," DuPre said. ... "The court documents signed by Leigh Corfman's parents, back when she was a minor, asked for custody to be changed from the mother to the father."

DuPre said court records do not confirm there was a hearing but show that on Feb. 21, 1979, a judge signed an order to transfer custody of Corfman from her mother to her father.

"Secondly, she claims her life spiraled out of control after she was first contacted by Judge Roy Moore," DuPre said. "However, as her own parents said in their joint petition to modify custody and, I quote, 'That each of the parties had become increasingly concerned and worried about certain disciplinary and behavioral problems being manifested by their minor child.'
"This was the basis for them asking that custody be changed from Leigh Corfman's mother to her father, because the father was better equipped, having been remarried and being of a stronger personality to deal with the already existing disciplinary problems of Leigh Corfman," DuPre said.

AL.com reviewed the divorce records of Corfman's parents.

On Feb. 21, 1979, Nancy and Robert Corfman agreed to transfer primary custody to Robert Corfman, citing "certain disciplinary and behavioral problems." The custody change occurred on March 4, 1979. The mother (Nancy) still had custody on weekends from 4 p.m. on Friday until 6 p.m. Sunday.

On June 27, 1980, Nancy Corfman filed a petition to modify custody again and give her primary custody, saying that the "minor child's disciplinary problem has improved greatly." The father lived on Route 2 in Ohatchee.

AL.com's attempts to contact Leigh Corfman, her attorney Eddie Sexton, and Leigh Corfman's stepmother were unsuccessful Tuesday after the press conference.

DuPre noted that Corfman claims in the Washington Post story that she talked to Moore on the phone in her bedroom, but that Corfman's mother said there was no phone in her bedroom.

"So we know that has proved to be a falsehood as well," DuPre said.

According to the the Washington Post story, Corfman said Moore picked her up around the corner from her house.

"However, according to public records that the media has not bothered to look at, we've been able to find that Corfman's supposed pickup place was almost a mile away from her mother's house and would have been across a major thoroughfare," DuPre said. "This is yet another improbable fact in Leigh Corfman's own words and story that the media has not bothered to investigate."

Cooke spoke about Nelson's allegation against Moore. Cooke cited statements from former employees and customers at the restaurant where Nelson says she worked that Cooke said contradicted her account. The comments Cooke cited were initially released by the Moore campaign on Monday.

AL.com attempted today to contact three people quoted in the press release on Monday but were not successful.

The press release and Cooke's comments today attempt to cast doubt on Nelson's accusations, made at a press conference last week with attorney Gloria Allred. Nelson alleged that Moore frequented a Gadsden restaurant, the Olde Hickory House, where she was a waitress at age 16. She said Moore offered her a ride home and then assaulted her in a car behind the restaurant after she left work for the evening in late 1977 or early 1978.

The Moore campaign offered statements from two women who said they worked as waitresses at the restaurant and they did not remember Moore as a regular customer. One waitress said she did not remember Nelson working there. They also said the configuration of the restaurant property would have made it hard for an assault to occur without someone seeing it. Another statement from a man identified as a former Etowah County deputy and Gadsden police officer stated he was a regular customer who didn't remember seeing Moore there.

Attempts to contact the three to verify their accounts were unsuccessful.

Cooke also noted that Allred has refused the Moore campaign's request to allow a neutral analyst to examine what Nelson says is Moore's signature in her high school yearbook. The Moore campaign has suggested it is a forgery.

Allred has said she would only allow the yearbook to be examined if a U.S. Senate committee calls a hearing on the matter and takes testimony under oath.

In a statement today, Allred called the latest assertions from Moore's campaign "a desperate attempt to continue to discredit Beverly and to divert the attention of voters from the fact that Roy Moore still has refused to state if he will testify under oath before a Senate Committee as to Beverly's serious accusations against him.

"Mr. Moore, will you or will you not agree to testify under oath before the United States Senate as Beverly has volunteered to do or will you hide behind a dumpster and the garbage that your campaign is collecting and distributing on a daily basis?"

In interviews on MSNBC and CNN, Allred has declined to answer when asked how the yearbook signature was authenticated and whether she was sure it was not a forgery.

Updated at 6:55 p.m. to add last sentence. Updated at 7:42 p.m. to correct a reference in the eighth paragraph to the number of women who, since the initial story came out, have said Moore dated them or attempted to date them when they were teens. Edited at 11:13 p.m. to correct spelling of Corfman.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_supporters_attack_cr.html#incart_river_home

A Republican organization in northwest Alabama said Tuesday they are sticking by GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore.

The Shoals Young Republicans said it unanimously passed a resolution on Sunday in support of Moore.

Click here to read AL.com's coverage of Roy Moore.
Republican organizations across the state have been reviewing their support of Moore in the aftermath of allegations made against him by women who, when in their teens, said he made unwanted romantic or sexual overtures.

Moore has repeatedly denied those allegations.

Moore faces Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 election.

"The Shoals Young Republicans is a conservative group of individuals that realize what is at stake in this election," said Josh Dodd, Vice-Chairman of the Fifth Congressional District for the Young Republican Federation of Alabama, in a statement released Tuesday. "We understand that President Trump's tax plan, a repeal of Obamacare and funding for a border wall will not pass if Doug Jones is in the Senate.

"Jones does not represent Alabama values, such as the right to life and the right to keep and bear arms. America needs Roy Moore to represent these values and fight for a constitutional majority on the Supreme Court."

The resolution stated that Moore should be considered "innocent until proven guilty" and "the burden of proof should come from the accuser, not the accused."

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/shoals_republican_group_gives.html#incart_river_home

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

? Sun Tzu

Well I kind of disagree on that last part. Remember Mike Browns family got $1.5M and the officer was cleared of any wrong doing at the state and federal level.

She's lying.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ethics-chief-suggests-kellyanne-conway-may-have-violated-hatch-act/

down at the bottom there is a letter about an Obama appointee violating the Hatch act and it was no more than meaningless finger wagging.

Baldwin County Young Republicans latest to adopt resolution backing Roy Moore

The Baldwin County Young Republicans group is the latest affiliate of the Young Republican Federation of Alabama to splinter away from the state organization's decision to suspend support of Roy Moore's Senate candidacy.

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Baldwin group approved a resolution supporting Moore, the Republican who faces Democrat Doug Jones during the Dec. 12 general election.

It was the second such pro-Moore resolution in two days, following that of the Shoals Young Republicans on Sunday. The state organization had adopted a resolution Saturday backing away from Moore. The Greater Birmingham Young Republicans voted Thursday to pull its endorsement of Moore and censure the Senate candidate.

Isaiah Pyritz, chairman of the Baldwin County Young Republicans, said the group is focused on the importance of preserving the GOP's slim 52-48 majority in the U.S. Senate and giving traction to President Donald Trump.

"We believe that in order to move forward, we need to get the president's agenda passed," Pyritz said, adding that Senate faces crucial issues in the coming months on tax reform and the potential to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Without the power to achieve key victories in Congress, he said, the GOP faces a "bloodbath" in the next year's midterms.

"We wouldn't take a stance on this issue if we had a 53-54 Senate seats, but the simple fact of the matter is that we don't have that big of a majority in the Senate as we would like," said Pyrtiz. "If we cannot get a few things passed like we promised ... the American people won't reward a lot of the candidates of the Republican Party in re-election or in elections we need, like in Florida and Missouri."

He added, "This is not about Roy Moore. This is just about preventing the Democrat from getting in there. It's bigger than Roy Moore. It's about the agenda of the president."

The resolution states, among other things, that the Baldwin County Young Republicans can withdraw its support of Moore if allegations of misconduct against the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice "are proven to be true beyond a reasonable doubt, either before or after the election."

Click here to read the resolution: Baldwin Co YR Resolution.docx

The Moore campaign's chairman, in a statement to AL.com, said they are "grateful" for the support the Republican candidate has received from President Donald Trump, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, the state GOP and county organizations.

Bill Armistead, the campaign chairman, said he was also pleased with the Young Republican organizations that approved resolutions backing Moore.

Armistead said it was "disappointing" to see what he described as a "handful of moderate Young Republicans" who "control the Young Republican Federation of Alabama" to desert the party's Senate nominee.

"Frankly, I am not surprised by the small band of Young Republicans who oppose Judge Moore because it is this same group who have gone against the Republican Party platform in the past by taking a more moderate position on social issues like abortion and same sex marriage," Armistead said. "I am confident that conservative Republicans all across the state are going to turn out in large numbers to elect Judge Roy Moore to the U.S. Senate on Dec. 12."

Jackie Curtiss, chairwoman of the state federation, said the organization "has never taken a moderate position" on abortion. She pointed to the federation's platform which she said has been pro-life "for many years."

The Young Republican Federation of Alabama's steering committee's resolution called on Moore to step aside if he cannot "clearly and convincingly refute" allegations raised against him. The allegations of misconduct first surfaced in a Nov. 9 Washington Post story. Moore has vehemently denied the allegations against him.

'Relaxed' Roy Moore pitches principles over issues
'Relaxed' Roy Moore pitches principles over issues
"I see some old Republicans here too," Senate candidate Roy Moore joked to a friendly crowd at a young Republicans event Thursday night in Robertsdale.

Pyritz, who is on the state executive committee, said the state federation's decision wasn't made with full support throughout the state. "To simply say we're united behind the decision, that is superbly false," he said.

Aaron Seeley, vice-chairman of the Baldwin County Young Republicans, said his group is "completely unified in our decision."

Curtiss said the state group spent hours hosting phone conversations last week to discuss the matter before voting on the resolution. She said "there was plenty of discussion" and that "everyone had an opportunity to speak" about the ramifications and potential consequences on the resolution.

She said she's not surprised to see some counties defect from the federation's decision.

"I think that is going to happen when you have diverse group like the (Young Republicans)," Curtiss said. "The Birmingham (Young Republicans) is over half the state's membership, and there are some smaller clubs that feel another way. We don't discourage that at all. We want members to speak their conscience."

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/11/baldwin_county_young_republica.html#incart_river_home

Washington Post: Roy Moore campaign refuses to substantiate claims about accuser

Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore's campaign refused Wednesday to substantiate a key claim it made as part of an effort to raise doubts about one of the candidate's accusers.

The campaign has claimed to have found documents that show Leigh Corfman lived more than a mile from the intersection where she said Moore picked her up for dates in 1979, when she was 14 and he was 32. She says he took her to his house, and touched her inappropriately. Moore has denied knowing Corfman.

"According to records the media has not bothered to look at, we've been able to find that Corfman's supposed pickup place was almost a mile away from her mother's house and would have been across a major thoroughfare," Ben DuPre, a longtime aide to Moore, said at an event Tuesday in Montgomery. "This is yet another improbable fact in Leigh Corfman's own words and story that the media has not bothered to investigate."

Leigh Corfman and her mother Nancy told The Post that they lived at the time on Whittier Street in Gadsden, around the corner from Alcott Road and Riley Street, where Leigh says she met Moore.

Nancy Corfman said she kept that address from 1974 until February 1981, when she relocated with her new husband to a house on Dogwood Circle in Gadsden, which is about a mile away across a major thoroughfare. A police report about property theft published in the Gadsden Times on March 31, 1980 listed Nancy Corfman's address on Whittier Street.

The Post requested documentation to support DuPre's description of another address on Tuesday and a spokeswoman for the Moore campaign said she would try to respond. On Wednesday morning, following another request for the information, Brett Doster, a strategist for the Moore campaign, sent an email to The Post.

"The Washington Post is a worthless piece of crap that has gone out of its way to railroad Roy Moore," Doster wrote in an email he described as an "on the record" statement. "There is no need for anyone at the Washington Post to ever reach out to the Roy Moore campaign again because we will not respond to anyone from the Post now or in the future. Happy Thanksgiving."

DuPre claimed Tuesday that the news media had not reviewed the available legal filings at the Etowah County courthouse for the custody dispute that Corfman says led her to meet Moore in February of 1979. In fact, The Post obtained and reviewed the entire case file before publishing a story on Corfman.

DuPre described what he called four problems with Corfman's story, including the claim of a different address. The evidence he presented did not contradict what Corfman has told The Post.

First, DuPre said that court files showed that her parents were attempting to transfer custody of their daughter from the mother to the father. Second, he noted that her parents had described in legal filings concerns for their daughter's behavior following their separation. Neither fact is in dispute, and both were known to the Post before publication.

DuPre also pointed to a Breitbart story that quoted Corfman's mother saying there was no phone in her daughter's room in 1979. Both Leigh Corfman and her mother have said they had a phone on a long cord in the hallway that could be brought into the daughter's room, where the younger Corfman says she spoke with Moore.

"John Adams once said, 'Facts are stubborn things,'" DuPre said at the end of his remarks on Tuesday. "We urge the press to do its job."

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_campaign_refuses_to.html

Pro-Roy Moore group fundraises off Trump's near endorsement

By ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - A political action committee supporting Senate candidate Roy Moore is fundraising off President Donald Trump's near-endorsement of the Alabama Republican, who is facing new allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct in the closing weeks of the campaign.

A Thanksgiving-themed email with the subject line "Giving thanks for YOU and OUR PRESIDENT!" applauds Trump, who on Tuesday discounted the sexual assault allegations against Moore and said voters must not support his "liberal" rival.

"We are thankful that his last words before leaving the White House to celebrate Thanksgiving were the strong words of support for Roy Moore," said the email from the group Solution Fund PAC.

After staying silent for more than a week, Trump all but endorsed Moore as he departed Washington on Tuesday, telling reporters, "We don't need a liberal person in there."
http://www.wbrc.com/story/36903360/pro-roy-moore-group-fundraises-off-trumps-near-endorsement

What Donald Trump should have said about Roy Moore

Here is how President Donald Trump responded Tuesday to questions about Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP nominee for U.S. Senate accused of sexually molesting, assaulting and harassing teenage girls when he was in his 30s:

President Trump: "I can tell you one thing for sure: We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat . . ."

Q: "Is Roy Moore, a child molester, better than a Democrat? He's an accused -"

President Trump: "Well, he denies it. . . . He denies it. And, by the way, he totally denies it. . . . Forty years is a long time. He's run eight races, and this has never come up."

Here is what a presidential president might have said:

"I cannot in good conscience support Roy Moore. As Marc Short, my director of legislative affairs, put it earlier this month, 'There's no Senate seat more important than the notion of child pedophilia.' I have many policy disagreements with Mr. Moore's opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, but none of them can matter more than basic human decency.

"Americans enjoy the presumption of innocence in criminal cases. But in the court of public opinion - and at the ballot box - we all get to make our own judgments. The allegations against Mr. Moore have only become more credible, and Mr. Moore's denials less believable, since Leigh Corfman accused him of inappropriately touching her when she was 14 years old and he was 32. The volume and consistency of complaints that have emerged since, along with comments from those who knew him at the time, such as a colleague who said 'it was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls,' have only bolstered their stories.

"It is true that Mr. Moore has strongly denied the allegations. But vociferousness and bluster do not translate into innocence. If those accused of sexual misconduct were judged on the vehemence of their denials, then only the contrite would suffer consequences, and very few victims would ever see justice.

"The nation is experiencing a long-overdue moment in which women are recounting upsetting stories that they have hidden, sometimes for many, many years. The age of their stories does not discredit them. It can be hard for women to speak up. They often have nothing to gain - and much to lose, particularly when powerful people have hurt them.

"As one revelation follows another, it becomes ever more obvious that existing practices have not protected women. That is why today I am establishing a presidential commission to draw up recommendations to systemically fight the too-pervasive problem of sexual harassment and assault, especially in the workplace. I will expect a report with concrete recommendations in three months.

"And let's be clear: This is not a partisan issue, as recent revelations in Congress show, and none of us should seek partisan advantage from it. Instead, we should thank Leigh Corfman and all the others who have had the courage to come forward - and we should honor their bravery by insisting on higher standards of behavior in public life. That starts with making sure that a predator such as Roy Moore never takes a seat in the U.S. Senate."

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/what_donald_trump_should_have.html#incart_river_home

Alabama Women, Say No to Roy Moore
This tribune of the common folk and their earnest ways allegedly preyed on the unprotected

Alabama has its back up, or at least its Republicans and conservatives do, and it’s understandable. They don’t like when Northerners and liberals and people in Washington tell them who their senator should be. They don’t like when reporters from outside come down and ask questions and turn over rocks looking for what’s crawling on the underside. There’s always an underside. Man is made from crooked timber.

People from the Deep South feel culturally patronized. This is because they are. Reporters from outside don’t admire or relate to them; when a Washington Post journalist presented as fact, in a 1993 news report, that evangelical Christians are “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command,” you know he was thinking of Southern evangelicals. Hollywood has long cast Southerners as witless and brutish in films from “Inherit the Wind” to “Deliverance” and “Mississippi Burning.”

Politically, Southern conservatives have long decried a double standard. Ted Kennedy spent much of his life as a somewhat inebriated roué whose actions caused the death of a young woman, but now we’re instructed to call him the Lion of the Senate. Bill Clinton was worse than Roy Moore. Mr. Clinton was accused of rape, harassment and exposing himself, but his party backed him and he kept the presidency. Democratic Sen. Al Franken was credibly accused Thursday, by an anchor at KABC radio in Los Angeles, of groping and harassing her on a USO tour in 2006. When she resisted him, Leeann Tweeden wrote, “Franken repaid me with petty insults,” and took an obscene photo of her on the way home, as she slept. Will the liberal media dig into Mr. Franken as they have dug into Mr. Moore? Or is he too good a source and friend?

Alabama Republicans are accused of mere tribalism in sticking with Mr. Moore, who has been accused of repeated sexual predation on teenage girls. But serious policy issues are at play in the December election, including ones that have to do with our character as a nation. Here is one. Alabama is one of the most pro-life states in the nation. Alabamans take abortion seriously and are profoundly opposed to partial-birth abortion, the aborting of a child so late in gestation that it could survive outside the womb, with or without medical assistance.

Most of Europe outlaws late-term abortion. They see the very idea of it as barbaric. As it is.

Roy Moore is against partial-birth abortion. His Democratic challenger, Doug Jones, was asked his position by Chuck Todd, in an interview in September on MSNBC.

Mr. Todd: “What are the limitations that you believe should be in the law when it comes to abortion?”

Mr. Jones replied: “I am a firm believer that a woman should have the freedom to choose what happens to her own body.”

Mr. Todd: “You wouldn’t be in favor of legislation that said ban abortion after 20 weeks or something like that?”

Mr. Jones: “I’m not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman’s right and her freedom to choose.”

If you care about late-term abortion, that is enough reason to oppose Mr. Jones. It is not surprising that Mr. Moore’s supporters would stick with him when seen through that light.

But still: It won’t do. All the above having been said, Alabamans who continue to back Mr. Moore are making a terrible mistake.

Just because something is understandable doesn’t mean it’s right. The charges against Mr. Moore are not only serious; they are completely credible.

If you read the original Washington Post story, you know it was rigorously reported, with great care and professionalism. Four women who did not seek out the press, who did not know each other, and who surely guessed going public would bring them nothing but grief, came forward and provided first-person details that established a pattern. Thirty people corroborated details. This is not attack journalism. It is great journalism.

If Roy Moore had a long and demonstrated history of randomly attacking children with a baseball bat, or if the FBI announced it had found in his possession a stash of child porn, Moore supporters would never back him. But that, in a way, figuratively, is what he stands accused of doing. His “porn,” his addiction, was cruising malls for young women, often teenagers. His “attacking children” was moving sexually on those young women and leaving them damaged.

Women around the world are moving against predators, harassers, bullies, rapists. It is inspiring. The legalities of the Alabama race may be at an impasse, but it would be good to see Republican women in the state lead a charge and insist on someone else. Find another conservative. There are plenty in Alabama.

I put it on the women because Republican men there right now are lost. They are busy playing to every stereotype every bigot ever held about them. They are busy comparing Roy Moore and his victims to St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. They are busy leaving phone messages falsely claiming to be Washington Post reporter “Bernie Bernstein,” offering big cash for dirt on Mr. Moore. They are busy saying they’d vote for any Republican over a Democrat. Gotta be loyal to your own.

They have been busy making themselves look like fools.

There is another reason Republican and conservative women should rise up. It has to do with the victims Moore chose.

Who were the girls he targeted? Interestingly, this tribune of the common folk and their earnest, believing ways allegedly preyed mostly on the unprotected. He chose young women he could push around. Some came to him at his law office, bringing with them all the problems of broken America—child-custody fights, violent divorces, bounced checks. They worked at Red Lobster, at a mill, on the night shift at Sears.

A thing about predators, from the men of the Catholic Church sex scandals to the man cruising the mall, is that they never prey on the protected. They don’t prey on the daughter of the biggest family in town, the child of the man who owns the factory or the local newspaper. They tend to prey on kids with no father in the home.

Tina Johnson “was 28 years old, in a difficult marriage headed toward divorce, and unemployed,” AL.com reported of the latest accuser, Wednesday. “She was at the office to sign over custody of her 12-year-old son to her mother.”

As they left the office, she said, Mr. Moore molested her. She told no one, not even her mother.

That is a tell, that she didn’t tell her mother. They almost never tell the mother. She’s got enough going on. Maybe she can’t handle more. Maybe she’s not interested in handling more.

Often the victims had had brushes with the law. Predators can smell that: It means no one will believe them if they talk.

Roy Moore targeted the deplorables. They were people with no sway, no pull. Some of them, in the presidential election, voted for Donald Trump.

There are better conservatives in Alabama than Roy Moore. Republican women, rise up and raise hell. That would be real loyalty, and to those who are really your own.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alabama-women-say-no-to-roy-moorealabama-women-say-no-to-roy-moore-1510875446