After nominating a Talibanesque religious zealot twice removed from his judicial duties for ignoring the United States Constitution and who somewhat predictably also turned out to be a notorious child sexual predator (aka would-be cult leader Roy Moore), Alabama Republicans continue to be furious that the state's voters voted against putting the child predator into the United States Senate.
So now they're blaming Alabama's other senator, Sen. Richard Shelby, for not robustly endorsing the child predator after Moore's victims began to come forward.
Moore’s supporters are furious with Shelby over his remark days before the Dec. 12 election that he “couldn’t vote for Roy Moore,” a controversial former state judge who was facing allegations of child molestation. Instead, Shelby said he would write in the name of another unnamed Republican. [...]
This week, three Moore supporters submitted a resolution to the Alabama Republican Party executive committee calling for Shelby to be censured. It argues that Shelby “publicly encouraged Republicans and all voters to write in a candidate instead of voting for the Republican Candidate Judge Roy Moore,” and that his “public speech was then used by the Democrat Candidate in robocalls to sway voters to not vote for Judge Roy Moore.”
The move came after a pro-Moore outside group, Courageous Conservatives PAC, ran robocalls last month describing Shelby as a turncoat and calling on him to resign.
This, Alabama Republican Party, is why 48 other states make fun of you. For the notion that a man credibly accused of being a child predator could have and should have represented you in the U.S. Senate, if not for those turncoat conservatives who outrageously drew the line at child predation. The casual illiteracy of the resolution is a nice tree-topper as well.
The effort is apparently helmed by "Dallas investor" Christopher Ekstrom, an outsider who has taken it upon himself to decide whether or not Alabama Republicans should vote for child predators if he says they should, and has the backing of an assortment of Moore-backing state malcontents. It is not expected to come to much, but the effort is not expected to quickly go away, either: many in the Republican base are deeply, deeply angry that their fellow Republicans wouldn't vote for a child rapist. This will continue until the Alabama Republican Party successfully nominates someone even worse, perhaps a serial murderer and/or cannibal, at which point attention will shift to defending cannibalism so long as the cannibal still promises to vote for upper-class tax cuts and we will repeat this entire process once again.