WOW-National Review-If You Refuse to Condemn Predators because of Politics, Youre Disgusting
These women aren’t 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 you’re 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 haven’t 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. It’s 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. It’s 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 that’s unlikely; you’re wrong. If you think there’s no way you know anyone personally who has been through something like this; you’re wrong again, and it’s time for people on all political sides to recognize reality: These men are everywhere, so are their victims, and those victims aren’t talking points for your partisan-hack gotcha tweets. They’re people.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453632/roy-moore-defenders-disgusting
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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.
