Mitch McConnell, our nation’s Senate majority leader, is right to say that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore “should step aside” after four women accused Moore of sexual misconduct when they were teens and he was in his 30s.
“I believe the women, yes,” McConnell said a news conference Monday morning, just hours before a fifth believable accuser came forward Monday afternoon.
Moore didn’t help himself over the weekend in an interview with GOP apologist Sean Hannity, who asked if Moore remembered dating girls that young when he was in his 30s.
“Not generally, no. If did, you know, I’m not going to dispute anything but I don’t remember anything like that,” Moore said. Later, pressed further, Moore said: “I don’t remember ever dating any girl without the permission of her mother.”
Isn’t something inherently wrong if Moore or you or anyone else in their 30s has to ask a parent’s permission to date a girl? Even then he did not think of these girls as adults old enough to make their own dating decisions.