Moore is the kind of guy with intelligence low enough to make this situation infinitely worse. He pretty much confessed to Hannity live that he was interested in younger females.
After replaying that radio interview Friday night, his entire panel agreed unanimously that Moore hung himself in the interview and should step aside, with Hannity desperately trying to spin the narrative about the media rush to judgment.
Geraldo even called him out on it and said "you are burying the headline".
But as I said on Friday, Moore will not step aside, for the same reason that Akin wouldn't. This is his one, only and last chance at the big leagues. He would rather go down in flames and lose be it by 1% or 20%, justified all the way in the name of fighting the evil establishment or defending Christian values. But at the end of the day it all comes back to selfishness. Democrats step aside "for the good of the cause" like Bob Torricelli. Republicans like Akin don't, their allies cast it as a larger struggle against the establishment, dig in and ride the flaming carcass of the Hindenburg right into the ground. And it is there fault that a Democrat sits in Missouri and Indiana, voting against the agenda in the Senate, not Mitch McConnell's. And it is there fault that liberal Democrat will be representing Alabama, doing likewise. But of course, it will once again be the fault of the establishment and McConnell for what is basically their own stupidity and their own selfishness. Conservatives love to claim that god is on their side, well in the words of Clint Eastwood, "No God's not on our side, because he hates idiots also".
The long term lesson from this is that Republicans have got to stop letting their anger at the establishment and their lack of trust, be manipulated by charlatans, snake oil salesmen, extremists and now pedophiles. Just like in Missouri there were two other candidates to choose from, including one with solid conservative credentials, and just like in that case, the worst option possible was selected.
