All the Moore Reasons

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You know it. And it's the people who trusted him and who want their country back who will be hurt the most.

WaPo went to extraordinary lengths to jump on this story and to present the women at its center -- and their reasons for not coming forward sooner -- as credible. I suspect someone is digging into that to profile them and to reveal what was left out. I also suspect, perceiving more pay dirt, his enemies are already digging deeper and wider.

As an aside, I wish they'd put similar energy into Fast and Furious, instead of ignoring and then minimizing it.

As another aside, I see a lot of Moore apologists knee-jerk concluding this is a hit and smear job of no substance.  We need facts to do that. We need to be the ones who value truth above all else.

He either did it or he didn't. 

If we start seeing high-level defections from his camp, it could tell us the people closest to him have not been convinced his principles advance theirs. If he did it, there's no doubt he will have done tremendous damage to "the cause," and no one will be happier than the swamp creatures. He will deserve all that he gets and more, for past crimes and for inducing good people to follow him while knowingly exposing them -- and the country -- to such a catastrophic potential outcome.

If he did not do it, those saying he did should pay for it. In full.

This must be resolved.  Having it hanging over him throughout the campaign will mean one of two things: He will not do the right thing, or the liars will have succeeded.

I just don't see an alternative candidate stepping into this mess, meaning the only "good" way out is total vindication, and soon.