Roy Moore is Still a Scoundrel

The RNC has pulled its support from Moore, and once-dedicated backer Steve Bannon now supposedly has qualms about the controversial candidate.  I don't know what the next poll numbers are going to look like when they drop, but the local news media have gotten mighty nostalgic over Moore's "back-when". Kayla Moore was apparently a classmate of one of Moore's accusers according to Twitter. That's...something. She has also tried to spread false information --

City directory confirms Ole Hickory House stood at 305 East Meighan Blvd in Gadsden in 1977. Site now has Rally’s. pic.twitter.com/5SG707uwJp

— WilliamThornton (@billineastala) November 14, 2017

Which has been debunked.

Also the Moore campaign seems to have fished out the canine ocarina with a somewhat anti-Semitic robo-call purporting to be a "Bernie Bernstein" from WaPo offering 1000$ for dirt, and Moore's own amusing rhetoric about "creating new rights in 1965" . (Why are all these dogs barking?*)

If he's going down, it's going to be ugly. If he's staying up, man, that's ugly, too. There's supposedly a letter from a lawyer suing local AL media on the Moore family and their charity's behalf, but it looks almost too absurd to be real. (Unless it isn't--threatening to sue WaPo but then going after small fry with no money is a tactic I wouldn't put past these bozos. But no professional would write legal demands while coming down from peyote buttons and that thing their veterinarian friend said would get a caribou off. But then again, Trenton Garmon, the lawyer in question, did go on TV and call CNN's Don Lemon "Don Lemon Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy" so I don't even know. Maybe he's just foolish.)

Which isn't even to say Moore is a dead cert to lose. But what I am looking at is not something the national Republican party should want tied to them like a creepy, Bible-beating albatross, either.

UPDATE:

I think this is awful but relevant, this is Trenton Garmon rambling about why talking about hating on gays is okay.



He's got some issues, there. If it isn't politically incorrect to say so, I hope he gets the hell over his glaring problems. It might be a mote, and it mote not. But I sense a need for serious ocular lumber removal.


*UPDATE: A good argument circulating on Twitter is that he was referring to Griswold v. Connecticut, which makes more sense. So, not civil rights, just birth control and abortion.