While Richard Selby mourns the loss of expertise within Alabama politics, there is a very good lesson to be learned. If a political victory is based on one character flaw, defeat rather than victory can be the outcome.
My greater concern regarding Roy Moore is the fact he has been an abject failure when it comes to practicing his profession and he will carry that to his seat in the US Senate.
Worse than that, if elected, Roy Moore will seek to change all that defeated him over the years. He is not trustworthy for many, many reasons; not just his overt sexual desire for girls. That desire, even at advanced age, is not CHANGED, it is dormant because of aging.
Roy Moore is a failure running for office as a failure, but, attempting to hide behind the Christian Bible. He decries those that stand in opposition to his religious indulgence of the Alabama devout. He wants all that vote to believe he is the savior of the faith. NOT! He is a manipulative politician selling snake oil.
When men like Moore are able to ascend opposition to take a seat of power, they cannot be crowned with glory so much as a focus to further investigation by federal authorities to bring about a reality the public can count on. Ethics violations of the past matter in the US Senate and if enough is found to be true about his escapades he can be made to resign and/or bring about a far different outcome when seeking re-election. If that should happen, what amendment will he attach to law being passed that will then require lawsuits to end the "invasion of victimization" of the American people?
Roy Moore is more than a sleazy politician seeking a regular paycheck and expense account; he undermines the political process and it's outcomes. He should never have made it this far, but, he did. The GOP has a lot of house cleaning to do, to be the real moral authority they would like.
God did not commission the GOP.
December 10. 2017
Sen. Richard C. Shelby, (click here) who serves as Alabama's senior senator, said repeatedly Sunday that the state's fellow Republicans can “do better” than Roy Moore, the conservative judge accused of sexual misconduct who faces Democrat Doug Jones in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate.
Shelby has previously said he was not supporting Moore, but his words on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday offered a fresh denunciation of his party's nominee just days before Alabamians go to the polls in an election to replace former senator Jeff Sessions, who now serves as attorney general.
“I didn't vote for Roy Moore,” Shelby said. “I wouldn't vote for Roy Moore. I think the Republican Party can do better.”
Shelby encouraged fellow Alabama voters to do as he did on his absentee ballot: to write in the name of another Republican for the office. Jones's chances of victory would be significantly boosted if large numbers of Republicans abandon Moore in favor of various write-in candidates. Shelby declined to name which Republican got his vote....
