Roy Moore is unfit to serve - The Washington Post Editorial Board

[DonViejo]

By Editorial Board October 23 at 7:24 PM

ALABAMA VOTERS will pick a new senator in December, and their choice is between one of the most divisive, counterproductive figures in U.S. politics and a well-qualified, even-tempered former prosecutor. In other words, there is no choice. Former judge Roy Moore (R) is unfit to serve. Former prosecutor Doug Jones (D) would be a credit to the state.

It is cliche to say that Mr. Moore’s strange rise has been fueled by anti-Washington anger. Yet electing Mr. Moore would be a sure way to worsen Washington’s problems. His unapologetic extremism would pour gasoline on the already raging fire of partisanship and dysfunction.

Mr. Moore repeatedly forced the Alabama Supreme Court into unwinnable fights on tangential side issues, rather than keeping the institution focused on its job. If you think the Senate has failed to attend to the country’s real problems, just wait until he gets there. Mr. Moore spins up “facts” to serve his worldview, as when he claimed that sharia was in force in Illinois or that the law required football players to stand for the national anthem. He called for a de facto religious test when he argued that Muslims elected to represent their communities should not be seated in Congress. This would have appalled the Founding Fathers and should alarm believers of all stripes.

Mr. Moore’s judicial record shows contempt for the law. No matter how you felt about his campaign to display the Ten Commandments on state property, once a federal court had made a decision on the matter, he should have complied. Instead he refused, leading to his removal from the bench. After eventually making his way back into black robes, he was sidelined a second time after again refusing to obey federal court rulings.

Mr. Moore’s mockery of his judicial oath is only one indication of questionable moral fitness. Another is how he profited from his charity. The Post’s Shawn Boburg and Robert O’Harrow Jr. uncovered that, though Mr. Moore said he did not take a “regular salary” from his nonprofit, he in fact claimed a big office, a bodyguard and a $180,000 yearly salary. Though he did not get his full salary every year, he still received a promissory note for back salary, for which the charity had to take a second mortgage on its historic building.

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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. I Believe Moore Will Be Elected By A Large Margin.

A Democrat winning this race would help shift the balance in the Senate and it would be nice. But I am not betting on a Democratic win.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Really wish you were wrong

But afraid you aren’t.
When I saw the title of this I was hoping it was from the Birmingham newspaper.

The good news is that Moore’s insanity once he gets in the Senate will help to push more independents and wavering Democrats away from the increasingly radical right Republican Party.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Washington Post does not like Mr. Moore -

That just gave him more votes!

[dalton99a]

8. Yep.

[Iliyah]

3. Heard that before

[genxlib]

4. All those things that WP describes

Are the things that they like about him.

We will be stuck with him.

The only saving grace is that his vote can't be any more conservative that anyone else that has held that seat. Meanwhile, he will continue to make an ass of himself and be the poster child for what is wrong with the current GOP. (I first wrote "the modern GOP" and realized that was the wrong term to use)

[world wide wally]

5. He is a shoe-in in Alabama

(The land of enlightenment)

[SCantiGOP]

7. A friend of mine who went to college in Alabama

Said that Jesus could come down from the clouds carrying a rebel flag and an AK-47, but as soon as they found out he was running as a Democrat he would’t Be able to get elected.