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It is, as one critic put it, a moral escape clause.
LACHLAN MARKAY
11.26.17 4:20 PM ET
An insurgent Republican firebrand, reviled by party leadership and facing well-funded opposition from both parties, bests his deep-pocketed GOP establishment primary rivals, and weeks before the general election finds himself besieged by allegations of sexual misconduct. His supporters wont make an affirmative case beyond the need to control the future composition of the U.S. Supreme Court. The best argument most can muster is: at least hes not a Democrat.
Last year, that firebrand was Donald Trump. Now its Roy Moore. And its the latter who is leading the charge among those supporting the former.
Trumps own transgressions involved both the notorious Access Hollywood tape, released a month before the election, on which he was heard bragging about being so famous that he could sexually assault womenor, as he put it, grab them by the pussyand a slew of women who accused him of assault and harassment. For Moore, the allegations are decades old, but even more serious: that in his 30s, he sexually assaulted teenage girls and routinely hit on others.
In both cases, the candidates saw immediate and widespread political defections. Then-Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus even encouraged Trump to withdraw from the race. Most of Moores would-be Republican colleagues in the Senate quickly rescindedor at least qualifiedtheir endorsements after allegations began surfacing early this month. But support among the base of the party persisted for both, not necessarily because of the merits of the candidates themselves, but because of the prospect that other option was a victory for the Democratic Party.
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dalton99a
(81,514 posts)There. No name.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Sad, isn't it?
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)"Please vote for my fellow sexual predator and brother in arms. I need him in the US Senate to screw ya'll over with my tax cuts for my very rich friends. I need him to pass my unfair and racist agenda to make America great and white again. "