Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago

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36. Actually, just this morning

I saw on "This Week" excepts from a Frank Luntz focus group, where Luntz is actually challenging the group about Roy Moore's behavior, and while the comments chosen may not have reflected the sense of the group, one of them was, "Maybe he's been forgiven after all this time," or words to that effect, and the other was pretty creepy, along the lines of "Girls married early in those days, and the parents of a fourteen-year old would have been pretty happy to have an assistant D.A. hitting on their daughter."

That last comment was chosen to shock the audience into realizing the mentality of a Roy Moore voter, but I would have to say that the gist of it has some merit. If you've got a rural community where your teenage daughter is going to find a husband, would you rather have her marry another failing farmer's son, or Goober at the filling station, versus someone who has a good job in town, that would be able to support her and your grandchildren? That's the calculations people make in hardscrabble places.