I wonder if the events described at the beginning of this article will be re-examined. His license was challenged twice, and he ended up leaving the state and then the country for a while. And he was “still a pariah by the time he returned.” I know local politics can be vicious, but was all of that really because of his “challenges to the local establishment”?
Is that what they’re calling it now?
Technically, “swearing at the mall cops throwing you out for harassing teenaged girls” totally counts as a “challenge to the local establishment”.
Why doesn’t he investigate Chester A. Arthur instead? At least that historical figure got to wield presidential power!
Shhhh, don’t give the Fox distraction machine any ideas.
Yesterday, all the wingnuts were urging that people smash their Keurig coffeemakers to bits because they have stopped advertising on Hannity.
Saw this on Twitter this morning:
Volvo, too, pulled its ads. Can’t wait for all the accidents!
23AndMe pulled their ads – I guess Hannity’s fans will need to irradiate themselves and scramble their genes.
Well then, wingnut women should smash their vulvas in protest!
Pretty much.
Mo Brooks (R-AL): “Who will vote in America’s best interests on Supreme Court justices, deficit and debt, economic growth, border security, national defense, and the like? Socialist Democrat Doug Jones will vote wrong. Roy Moore will vote right. Hence, I will vote for Roy Moore.”
Senator Isakson tried to have it both ways but his intent is clear: “As a member of the Republican Party and an elected Republican, there’s no circumstance under which having a Democrat would be better… That said, anybody who violates the moral code of ethics and decency should not be serving in the United States Senate.”
You have far, far more faith than I in the ability (or interest) of the typical person to hold more than one headline in their brains at a given moment. Especially when one headline is a week or more old.
Sessions says he has no interest in his old job. Per Weekly Standard:
Evidently not (as long as this link remains live).
Do we really want Hannity fans breeding without knowledge of their genetic relatedness? I demand that 23AndMe continue advertising on Hannity as a public service to the country!
Add Sessions and Ryan to the “anti-Moore” crowd. What I wondering though, is, what’s in it for Moore if he drops out? His worst case scenario is that he stays in and loses to a Democrat. Dropping out would pretty much be him admitting that he was wrong.
A Fox contract. Pays better than the Senate, too.
The problem is that their budget for paying off sexual harassment claims is already busted to hell and gone.
Religious fundamentalists (Alabamian or otherwise) may well look with approval on adult men taking teens as wives or even concubines. But it’s clear that that’s not what Moore was doing.
As more victims have come forward, and as we learn about such facts as Moore having been banned from a local mall because of his pursuit of young girls, it’s become obvious that what Moore was doing was making use of a string of teens for the purpose of getting his rocks off.
Fundamentalists like marriage and procreation. For them to excuse this other thing requires some fairly blatant doublethink.
Beyond that: men who use a succession of young girls for the purpose of reaching orgasm almost certainly are also users of pornography.
Moore is an arrogant guy. The odds are good that there is underage-girls porn in his possession—paper or electronic—right now.
Vote against expulsion and keep Roy Moore, R-AL? Democrats?
I’d pretty much guarantee it. And I’d also guarantee that it would not make one bit of difference to his supporters now. I’m sorry to be vulgar, but Roy Moore could rape a 13 year old in front of them, and they would be disgusted, but still vote for him because “at least he’s not a Democrat”. That’s how far the Republican party has sunk.
I think you’re right about those particular depths.
But a big part of the ‘we’ll wait and see’ prevaricating from big-name Republicans has rested on the unlikelihood of Moore being convicted of any crime stemming from his actual activities with little girls. Statutes of limitations, too many years passed for victims and witnesses to seem credible, etc.
Convicting him of current possession of unlawful materials (underage porn) seems more like something that’s a real possibility. And if that were to occur, then the hemming and hawing by the GOP would become moot.