GOP losing its way
Well, it’s official. In today’s Republican Party winning everything.
As Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s poll numbers stabilized, President Trump went all in and the Republican National Committee soon followed, once again opening up its coffers to one of the most morally bankrupt contenders to seek that office.
“We want strong borders, we want stopping crime,” Trump said yesterday in support of Moore. “We want to have the things that we represent, and we certainly don’t want a liberal Democrat that’s controlled by Nancy Pelosi and controlled by Chuck Schumer. We don’t want to have that for Alabama.”
The fact that the guy faces accusations of sexual misconduct with two teens, ages 14 and 16, and efforts to date other teens when he was a 30-year-old district attorney seems not to bother the Trump wing of the Republican Party. That Moore has more recently called the women making the accusations liars — cards and a yearbook with his notes and signature notwithstanding — compounds his offenses.
There are still a few voices of reason in the GOP, former governor and former presidential contender Mitt Romney among them.
“Roy Moore in the US Senate would be a stain on the GOP and on the nation. Leigh Corfman and other victims are courageous heroes. No vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity,” Romney tweeted Monday.
Trump and the RNC pulled out all the stops on Moore’s behalf even as U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) announced his imminent retirement yesterday in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct. Conyers, the oldest-serving member of the House, was under enormous pressure from his Democratic colleagues to not further embarrass them.
Senate Republicans, on the other hand, will have ample time to contemplate their future — should Moore win his race next week — as the party without a moral core, the party that will overlook both sexual misconduct and a complete disrespect for the law (the reason Moore was twice thrown off the court in Alabama). Many voters will see that as winning the battle but losing the war.