Roy Moore’s GOP Is America’s Shame
It was this time one year ago as of this column’s posting
that the world reeled at the revelation that Donald Trump would become the 45th
President of the United States of America.
Not cheered. Not being pleasantly
surprised. Not stunned like seeing the
“Red Wedding” episode of “Game of Thrones”.
No, “reeled”. As in someone just
undid their pants and defecated right in front of them.
And it wasn’t just because the 2016 Farce was Hillary
Clinton’s to lose. It wasn’t just
because Trump wanted to put up a colossal ego-stroking wall on the US-Mexico
border and pompously expect Mexico to pay for it all. It wasn’t just because Trump spoke about
shutting out and kicking out Muslims in the name of “national security”.
It was because this was the man that was caught on audio
with his “locker room talk” about being able to do whatever the hell he wanted
to with women because he’s rich and he’s a celebrity. And rather than repudiate and reject what he
had to say ten years previously, his supporters, along with the propagandists
in talk radio and Fox News and social media, actually justified and validated
what he had to say. I listened with growing
revulsion as paid propagandists on local talk radio actually claimed that what
Trump did was okay because he was supposedly an “alpha
male” and that justified doing anything he wanted. And then they turned around and they blamed
the women for supposedly “actively looking for it”.
And Trump’s supporters agreed with it all! That’s the truly sickening part of it
all. Even when the worst of Trump was
exposed and laid bare like a drunken flasher, they still stood by him and
justified and validated it all. That’s
the part that even made the GOP party bosses and entrenched GOP politicians
feel dirty. And they should feel dirty
about it.
So now here we are a year later, and the same people that
justified and validated Trump’s “grab ‘em” comment and attitude are at it
again.
And this time it involves America’s self-appointed political
ayatollah.
Alabama Judge Roy Moore, twice-removed from his
twice-elected position as that state’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, decided
that he wanted to elevate himself to being a United States Senator in a special
election after Jeff Sessions became Attorney General. His loyal fanatical minions, the same people
that kept on electing him to the Supreme Court, made sure that he won the
primary in staunch defiance even over Trump’s own chosen candidate. But, they still forgive Trump for it.
But now comes a certain tidbit about America’s ayatollah: it
seems he likes his women young. And
by “women”, apparently that’s under-18.
Or, at least he did when he was younger, according to the Washington
Post. Back when he was a county
prosecutor in his thirties. One woman
recounted a rather disgusting encounter when he was 32 and she was 14.
Fourteen.
And while most people would find these accounts more than
reason to call for Moore’s removal from the special election, you
still can’t convince even one of Moore’s cultist followers to agree with it.
Even Fox News, with their own sordid history of predatory figures in
positions of authority, is
quick to rush to Moore’s defense.
The most common of excuses being wielded about is that these
accusers somehow waited “too long” to come out, as if truth had an expiration
date. Funny how there was no expiration
date when it came to Juanita Broadderick or Paula Jones concerning President
Bill Clinton. Remember them? Y’all didn’t tolerate no talk about being “too
late” then.
One myrmidon tried
to use the Bible as justification for Moore’s early lechery, equating Moore
as Joseph to his then-teenaged accusers’ Mary, and then say it was okay because
they still were the parents of Jesus.
First, Joseph first met Mary when she was already pregnant. And, second, Joseph wasn’t the one that
impregnated Mary, you pompous half-wit hack!
You not only failed common decency, but you failed the Bible!
Another myrmidon is demanding that the Moore’s accusers
should be locked up for daring to expose the truth. This sentiment should not be surprising
because this is the same part of the country that would have Charles Darwin
thrown in prison along with John Scopes if they could help it. And, yes, I’ve heard that with my own ears
from people even in my neck of the South.
The truth is never welcomed in this part of the country.
Think about it: the same faction that believed President
Bill Clinton’s accusers just on their word and wanted Bill Clinton removed from
office and thrown in prison just on the basis of their word refuse to hold Roy
Moore to the same standard. Oh, wait,
there I go again using that most profane of all words in the South: “think”. So-called “real” southerners don’t believe in
such blasphemous things like “thinking”.
Could lead to dancing.
And nobody should be surprised that Moore would have this
kind of skeleton in his closet. It seems
that the self-righteous have a particular fetish for young women. Remember David Koresh? How about Warren Jeffs? They liked their “women” young as well. The only difference is that these folks
didn’t decide to run for public office like Moore did. They were able to keep their “tastes” quiet
by keeping out of the limelight. But I
suppose that would be asking too much for the GOP’s political ayatollah.
Let’s get brutally honest here… what you are witnessing
right now is the *real* GOP at work.
“GOP” being “God’s Own Party”.
And not only is *their* God the *only* God in their minds, but Roy Moore
is their prophet! These are the people
that fanatically supported Donald Trump last year and still blindly support him
this year. These are the people that the
party bosses and their soothsayers in the propaganda mills have been appeasing
and coddling and ginning up for their elections over and over again.
These are the people that firmly believe that Barack Obama
was born in Kenya, that the Democratic Party has child sex slaves in the
non-existing basement of a single-floor pizza parlor, that Saddam Hussein was
responsible for 9/11, that Bill Clinton is a predatory rapist, that the only
real terrorists are Muslims, that
non-Muslim mass-shootings are staged, and no amount of truth and no amount
of proof or lack thereof could ever dissuade them of it. They believe it all in the same way that they
believe that their own interpretation of the Bible is absolute and
unquestionable.
They are the worst of America, and while the GOP party
bosses will suck up to them, they are right now also clearly in shame of
them. And yet, they are the ones that
are guilty of letting things get this far.
They’ve known who these people are.
They have no illusions what kind of people these are and what they
believe in. The party bosses had no
problem sucking up to these folks and feeding their biases and their delusions
and their paranoia to get their undying support, but only as long as those
folks were kept quiet and in the background.
Well now that base is no longer hiding, they’re not staying
quiet, and they’re now rebelling against their “establishment” masters. They’re making it quite clear who really
controls the GOP, and it’s not the party bosses. They’re standing with their self-appointed
ayatollah, just like they stood with their narcissistic presidential candidate
last year. This is *their* party now.
This commentator has no delusions that somehow the people of
Alabama will “come to their senses” and reject Roy Moore and his self-righteous
aspirations of political entitlement outright.
Nor do I believe that he will simply back down from what he believes is
his “destiny” any more than he would back down when he was twice-removed from
his “destined” post in the Alabama Supreme Court. That is not in either of their natures. They are no different in mentality than the
very Islamic extremists in the Middle East that they hate. The only difference being these entrenched extremists
are America’s shame.
Just like the Democratic Party is no longer the “Party of Jefferson”,
but instead is the “Party
of Hillary Clinton”, the GOP has long stopped being the “Party of Lincoln”,
or, for that matter, the party of Teddy Roosevelt, the party of Ronald Reagan,
or even the party of George W. Bush. It has
long stopped being my party for over thirty-five years now, and I was an actual
card-carrying dues-paying member. It is
now the party of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and Roy Moore and Sarah
Palin. It is the party of self-righteous
delusion and entitlement, where the rules and norms and morals can never apply
to them, but apply unconditionally to everyone else. It didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen
right under all of our noses, and those of you who still support that failed
party are as much to blame for it being what it is as Moore and his delusional
followers.
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