Rush Limbaugh isn’t quite ready to believe the sexual assault allegations being lobbed at Alabama senate hopeful Roy Moore. Why? He thinks the timing is too perfect.
“If this was known, it would have been found before now, don’t you think? Do you think Mitch and his opposition research guys could have found this?” Limbaugh asked on his radio show.
“It only pops up now? And of course Judge Moore is this rock-ribbed Christian, Ten Commandments guy. This is made to order for the left to start just shouting about hypocrisy and all that.”
It’s true, Democrats are already crowing over Moore’s fall from grace. Of course, just because the allegations are beneficial to the left doesn’t mean that they’re not true. Still, Limbaugh raises a good point. Making a judgment about events that happened 20, 30 years ago is notoriously difficult.
“Now, Judge Moore would be, for the left, a major, major get, ’cause here’s a guy who is essentially a devout, born-again Christian, who lives it, who breathes it, who preaches it, and could they go to town on the hypocrisy part of this — and they’re salivating to! They can’t wait,” continued Limbaugh.
“The only thing… Well, I guess not the only thing. But it’s really suspicious that this stuff comes up so many years later, and it happens to be a story with details that seem to be exclusively attached to liberals and Democrats right now.”
Nobody wants to discount the victim’s pain, but the rights of the accused are also important. Someone who dusts off a decades-old story and uses it to publicly shame another person should expect to undergo heavy scrutiny.
“This supposedly happened in 1979. So that’s 38 years ago. Now, you think somebody in that 38 years knew this kind of stuff had happened? How does a guy like Moore with the enemies he has keep something like this bottled up for that long?”
(Source: RushLimbaugh.com)