A call for Moore to show himself the door

even more so, the Republican establishment. I understand their concerns. They see giving any credence to the stories about Moore as capitulation to their enemies. But that is politics. The one thing we don’t lose in all of this is our vast reserves of political hypocrisy. American politics is incapable of running a hypocrisy deficit.

Speaking of which, remember when Democrats rallied around their big dog, then-President Bill Clinton? Feminists and other Democrats trashed and ridiculed women who dared go public with their allegations against the most powerful man in the world.

“Did the president have a sexual relationship with this young lady? No,” said then Clinton aide Rahm Emanuel on CNN, talking of White House intern Monica Lewinsky. “Did the president ask this young lady to lie? No,” Emanuel continued. “That’s what matters in a media frenzy about rumor and gossip. (You’ve) got to get back down with the facts.”

But when it comes to politics and sexual predators, we know some facts. We know that Clinton was a sexual predator. His defenders — including his wife — protected him. The nation suffered.

And now, the left has discovered that character counts, and that there should be some kind of reckoning.

Democrats had their chance. And many were silent and many others were loud and public in their trashing of women to benefit Clinton. And it appears that Roy Moore is a sexual predator as well. So, 30 years from now, will the Republicans who defend him remind us that character counts?

So what is lost when partisans are sent out to conveniently lie, to trash a woman for telling us what happened to her at the hands of powerful men?

And what happens when, in our desire to win at politics, we grab eagerly at such silky partisan lies and devour them as if they were nourishment in our political fights? What is lost is decency.

America has lost too much decency already. We can’t afford to lose any more.

So go away, Roy Moore. Just go away.