What Moore is accused of doing was only a misdemeanor in 1979, emphasized Brandon Moseley of ALReporter.com: “If [Moore] had stolen a lawn mower at age 21, would that be a reason not to elect him 50 years later?”
The comments made Moseley only the latest Moore defender to downplay the severity of alleged sexual touching initiated by a 32-year-old man on a 14-year-old girl.
In case there was any doubt, we are now way, way beyond stolen lawn mower comparison.
.. Moore’s supporters will find it difficult to shift tactics. They’ll simply move away from the lawn mower analogies and biblical comparisons to casting doubt on the accusations themselves. But this certainly makes it no longer tenable to claim that this is a misunderstanding from a bygone era in the United States or a very specific region of the country. And these Moore defenders have to wonder how much more they’ll be asked to defend or dispute in the days and weeks to come.