I never thought that I’d ever be backing the same candidate as Mitch McConnell in a senate race but then I never thought that I would side with Kim Jong Un in an argument, nor that I would compare Dubya to Thomas Jefferson and now I’ve done all three in the same week; six impossible things before breakfast, that sort of thing. Luther Strange is the candidate that McConnell prefers and I have to admit that compared to his opponent in the GOP primary tomorrow, evangelical wingnut Roy Moore, Strange is the lesser of two evils. Moore and Strange were intensely campaigning this weekend. At one point Moore read his poetry. Talking Points Memo:
“Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.”
“We’ve voted in governments that are rotting to the core,
Appointing Godless judges who throw reason out the door.
Too soft to put a killer in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill that child before he leaves the womb.
You think that God’s not angry, that our land’s a moral slum?
How much longer will it be before His judgment comes?”
The social ills from which we suffer are not poverty, homelessness, opoid abuse, anything along those lines. According to Moore, our problems are and we quote, “political correctness and social experimentation like transgender troops in our bathrooms.” Yeah, why it’s gotten to where a person can’t even take a shower without tripping over all the transgender troops stationed in the bathrooms, both upstairs and down. Somebody definitely ought to look into that.
Moore also gave a speech on how America is falling apart, reminiscent of none other than DOTUS‘ “American Carnage” speech.
“Our foundation has been shaken. Crime, corruption, immorality, abortion, sodomy, sexual perversion sweep our land. When we become one nation under God again, when liberty and justice for all reigns across our land, we will be truly good again,”
The operant word in that sentence is “all” which translates as “people exactly like me and who I like. To hell with all the rest, I hate them anyway.” Moore’s unrepentant hardline religious right philosophy has gotten him thrown off the Alabama Supreme Court twice, once for refusing to remove a statue of the ten commandments from the court house foyer and the second time a decade later when he refused to accept the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage.
Moore is the front runner. If he wins the primary, the Democrat, Doug Jones, simply has to win the election. The only good Moore is No Moore.