So the credible argument is that Moore's attraction to young girls was brief, involved no more than a few girls, and was a gentleman to most.
That's not a good argument.
Report: Alabama Mall Banned Roy Moore in the ’80s for Pursuing Teens
Moore, whom five women have accused of making advances on them or molesting them when they were teenagers, allegedly
had a reputation for hanging around the Gadsden Mall, in Gadsden, Alabama, in pursuit of high school-age girls. One former mall employee told
The New Yorker that a security guard asked mall employees to be on the lookout for
Moore, who was “banned from the mall.” Blake Usry, who was a teenager in town at the time, told AL.com Moore was known to "flirt with all the young girls," and would hang out at the mall on weekends "like the kids did."
Other locals told AL.com that
Moore's penchant for flirting with teens was common knowledge in town. One former waitress told AL.com that
Moore made young waitresses uncomfortable by staring at them, then becoming rude if they did not "give him an opening." A police officer, one of two who spoke with
The New Yorker,
said that “general knowledge at the time when I moved here was that this guy is a lawyer cruising the mall for high-school dates”