Let me say out front: Roy Moore belongs in the Senate as much Donald Trump belongs in the White House. Both could not more unfit for public office.
Roy Moore is everything I hate in Evangelical “Christians”. He is a bigot of the lowest kind. But give him this: He is not a hypocrite. That a 32 year old man should be able to get in the pants of a 14 year old girl is a perfectly biblical view. After all, a “Biblical Worldview” means you view the world as if in the bronze age.
Now, I fervently hope Moore loses the election. But let’s face it, this is Alabama. Alabama. This is the state that proves that traveling back in time is possible. Talk about living in the bronze age. So as loathsome as he is to us, enough Alabamans might only care he is not a godless, pro-abortion, gay-friendly, Obama-loving dem.
If Moore wins, the Senate cannot refuse to seat him. They can refuse only if there was a problem with the election or if Moore did not meet the constitutional requirements for the office. Neither is applicable here.
The other choice is to seat him and then expel him. About 15 senators have been expelled from the Senate in all of the US history. 14 of them during the Civil War when they supported secession. And the other one in the 1700’s. Also for treason.
The closest case is of a Senator that resigned before he could be expelled for sexual misconduct. But that was while he was in the Senate.
Moore would be expelled for behavior long before he became a Senator.
As emotionally satisfying as that would be, it would be nothing less that the Senate nullifying a legal election.
There would be an argument for it, if the allegations had surfaced after the election. It could be argued that the voters elected Moore without knowing of his predatory behavior and they would not have elected him if they had known.
And remember, we all knew of Trump’s “pussy grabbing” ways and he still cleaned Hillary’s clock in Alabama.
The fact is that, if Moore wins, the voters would have elected him despite (and in some cases maybe because) his predatory behavior.
As much as I would love that being a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, asshole were a reason for taking someone’s vote away, Alabamans have the right to vote and send an execrable piece of shit as Moore to Washington to represent them.
God have mercy of us all.
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