Timothy Birdnow

A quick thought on Roy Moore's answer to the charges of molesting a then 14 year old girl nearly 40 years ago; He has said far too much. Moore has denied even knowing the girl, a very stupid mistake if he is lying. Moore is a lawyer, and has been in the public eye, quite visibly, for all this time. He is not a stupid man. He has to know that it is a mistake to deny this if he is guilty. As Bill Clinton said to Paula Jones, if everyone just denies remembering anything there is no way it can stick.

Moore need only say he didn't remember her - or more usefully that he knew her, perhaps spoke with her a time or two, and maybe even was concerned about her as she seemed like she may have been troubled. This is plausible deniability. But Moore denies having met her at all. That would be an act of stupidity on Moore's part if he were guilty.

It would be very easy for Moore to spin this as a troubled youth and a fantasy. A young girl in desperate need of some attention (since her parents were divorcing) making up a story about how an older man had been overcome with ardour for her. But he's not taking that tact.

As James Hirsen pointed out a, Leigh Corfman has made similar accusations against three of her pastors in times gone by.

Purportedly Moore’s main accuser Leigh Corfman has had three divorces, filed for bankruptcy three times, and has been charged with multiple misdemeanors.

Posts on Moore's FB page indicate that Corfman, has claimed several pastors at various churches made sexual advances at her.

— James Hirsen (@thejimjams) November 10, 2017

Oh, and if anyone doubt the political nature of this one should disabuse themselves of the notion by noting that Gloria Allred, queen of sexual misconduct smears, has has slithered out from under a rock over this. Allred has pervected the sex smear to destroy Republicans (see Herman Cain) and no doubt she has some Clinton Cash to spread around.

By the by, Moore is threatening to sue the Washington Post for this.

The Post found four women whom Moore dated as teenagers. His conduct towards all four might well have been basically the same. The unstable woman of the four might well have embellished.

I’m not saying she has. Her allegations may be true. But based on what has been reported so far, I think her most serious allegations — the ones that, if true, would constitute criminal conduct — are more likely false than true.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-allegations-against-roy-moore.php

When I read the Washington Post’s account of Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misdeeds towards Leigh Corfman, one detail rang particularly false. Corfman told the Post that she spoke with Moore on her phone in her bedroom. As one woman of my acquaintance who lived in the deep South during that era guaranteed, 14 year-old girls in Alabama didn’t have phones in their rooms back then.

Corfman, it turns out, was no exception. Aaron Klein reports that Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, told Breitbart News that her daughter did not have a phone in her bedroom during the period when Moore allegedly called the girl.

However, Wells stands by the rest of the story reported by the Post.

Does Corfman’s faulty recollection about the phone undercut the thrust of that story? I spent decades working with and examining witnesses. In my view, Corfman’s mistake about the bedroom phone is the kind of error people often make when trying to remember details from the distant past. I don’t think her mistake regarding this detail bears much on her overall credibility.

Corfman’s claim of sexual misconduct by Moore is not a detail. If she is erring about this matter, she’s not failing to remember something incidental. Her "error,” if she’s making one, is of a different nature — a lie, a delusion, or a substantial embellishment.

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