Top Alabama GOPers Blast McConnell, Defend Roy Moore After Underage Sex Allegations

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By CAMERON JOSEPH Published NOVEMBER 9, 2017 4:38 PM

A number of top Alabama Republicans were quick to defend Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) following allegations that he’d sought sexual relationships with multiple teenagers — and quick to attack Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for throwing Moore under the bus.

McConnell said Moore “must step aside” if the Washington Post’s story was true that Moore, then 32, initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979. It was a line echoed by most senators.

That infuriated a number of Republicans back in Alabama, many of whom defended Moore’s character and suggested the women were likely lying.

“I think it’s just a bunch of bull,” Perry Hooper Jr., President Trump’s Alabama state chairman, told TPM. “Mitch McConnell should know better to make a statement like he made unless he gets all the answers. We’re right in the political zone right now, the election’s December 12th. This is the same campaign issue the left ran against Donald Trump on, they’re doing the same thing against Roy Moore.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-alabama-gopers-blast-mcconnell-defend-roy-moore-after-underage-sex-allegations

[Fluke a Snooker]

1. EVERY damn Republican defending this piece of manure is just as vile

I really have no words about any Republican who defends this pedophile. Not one. This is why the ENTIRE GOP is complicit in destroying humanity with its principles and tenets. Sad!

[PearliePoo2]

2. Oh man, this is getting three dimensional! They're attacking each other!

Pass the fucking popcorn...

[Fred Sanders]

3. Trump's victims not underage if I recall except for one who keeps filing and withdrawing

lawsuits.

The Alabama folks need to think about defending that...or maybe keep up the defending until election and defeat, on second thought.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Any comment Jeff Sessions?

[paleotn]

6. Oh, I get it....

They're saying the accusers are lying. For a minute there I thought they'd defend it by saying...."hey, this is Alabama. You just don't understand how we do things down here."

[Bleacher Creature]

7. OMG. There is a HORRIFYING quote in this article.

I'll just offer this up without comment.

Alabama State Rep. Ed Henry (R), Trump’s other Alabama campaign co-chairman, was even harsher.

“I believe it is very opportunistic and they are just looking for their chance to get on some liberal talk show. I’m sure they’ve probably been offered money by entities that surround the Clintons and that side of the world. We know they will pay to dirty anyone’s name that’s in their way. If you believe for a second that any of these are true then shame on these women for not coming forward in the last 30 years, it’s not like this guy hasn’t been in the limelight for decades. I call B.S. myself. I think it’s all lies and fabrication,” Henry told TPM.

[Ilsa]

8. We need to re-route I-10 and I-20 out of Alabama since there are

So many pervy old white republican men there. They have no problem with sexual abuse and inappropriate relationships between older men and girls who are barely old enough to menstruate. Wouldn't want travelers daughters to be abused there.

[Kaleva]

9. Alabama s other Senator, Shelby also says Moore should withdraw

If the allegations are true.

[More_Cowbell]

10. His wife is 14 years younger than he is

After hearing about all of these young girls, I bet he's never been able to attract a woman his own age. Talk about arrested development.

[Atticus]

11. If I stepped in a pile of Hooper, I wouldn't even try to

to clean my boots. I'd just pitch 'em.