Mitt Romney's strategist says Roy Moore's 'creepy' behavior with girls would've gotten him beat up in Mississippi

Stuart Stevens talks Roy Moore
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Give Alabama some credit, Republican strategist Stuart Stevens said on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360. Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in next Tuesday's Alabama election, "by every measure has violated the decency standard," Stevens said. "I mean, he's admitted to trying to date 16-year-old girls in his 30s. That's a creepy thing. People say, well it's just Alabama. Listen, I grew up in Mississippi. And every father I knew, if he saw a guy like Roy Moore in his 30s trying to date his 16-year-old daughter, he would've had a date with a baseball bat."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.