Yes, no telling on how low the GOP will go when it comes to party.
Really on fire smouldering kinda getting warm there, Mr Principles.
Sasse trying to keep his record ‘clean’ for a White House bid some day.
“This is a very bad decision and very sad day?” Sounds like a pretty tepid and weenie comment. Can’t Sasse muster up a bit more justifiable outrage than that? Weenie!!
Am I the only one who hears Mr. Mackie in my head while reading that?
[Harper Lee, Roy Moore and Alabama values][1]
By Wayne Flynt, an historian of Alabama who has written nine books about the state, the most recent being Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century and Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee.
After reading a copy of my book, Alabama in the Twentieth Century, novelist Harper Lee wrote me a letter on February 18, 2005, expressing her fears about the direction her beloved state was headed based on its past: “It looks like to hell if we don’t get some things changed. . . . I dread the advent of Roy Moore’s administration but its coming sure as doomsday. What is wrong with us? Are you old enough to remember when people were less ignorant? I am.”
Eighteen months later, on the day she received the Birmingham Pledge Foundation award for a lifetime devoted to racial reconciliation and justice, I arranged for her to talk with high school students, half of them black and half white, half from one of the poorest schools in western Birmingham, and the other half from Mountain Brook High School in one of America’s wealthiest suburbs. They had joined their remarkable musical and acting talents to produce the play To Kill a Mockingbird. What she perceived of their kindness toward each other, their mutual respect, and their genuine friendship forged in months of rehearsals changed her pessimism about the state’s future.
She wrote me on September 17, 2006, that she had seen “a side of Alabama that didn’t exist a quarter century ago: determination to face up to our history, to claim it and profit from it. If our generation can’t rise to the challenge of change, perhaps those young people and their generation can.”
Those young people are grown now, and the ones who remain in Alabama are no doubt registered to vote if only because of that transformational time spent with one of our exiled prophets, of reading and performing her vision of the beloved and just society. And because they understand the stakes in the U. S. Senate race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore. And make no mistake about it: that election on December 12 is not just a meaningless backdrop to national politics played out in a provincial state. It is a window through which we will gaze into America’s soul, understand its deepest anxieties and its most confused religious and moral values.
Based on my continuing contact with those students now grown up, none of them will vote for Roy Moore. To them, he represents the old Alabama of Robert E. Lee Ewell, of lynching and the sexual abuse of women. Law to Moore is merely an instrument of exclusion and oppression, whether of women, teenage girls, African Americans, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, or homosexuals. He is a deluded theocrat who believes that God’s conversations with him determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, not the words written by the Founding Fathers or their interpretation by the U. S. Supreme Court.
The choice for Alabama Methodists (such as Harper Lee) or Baptists (such as me), Pentecostals and members of independent megachurches, is to determine in this election whether white evangelicals retain the vision of the Kingdom of Heaven proclaimed by Jesus, the establishment of a just and righteous nation, or whether that evangelical tradition is now ethically, morally, intellectually, and (most tragic of all) Biblically bankrupt.
Hundreds of Alabama religious leaders have signed a letter denouncing the conduct of Roy Moore and his anti-Christian values.
My name as a Baptist minister/professor is on the list despite Harper Lee’s humorous dismissal of my Baptist identity as being inappropriate to so intelligent an historian. I believe that our understanding of our people and their understanding of the Bible and personal moral character will prevail on December 12. But if not, then the churches should turn off the lights and nail up the doors, for they stand for nothing better than misogyny, religious and racial bigotry, and discrimination. And so far as the state’s G.O.P. is concerned (in 1960 I was chairman of Alabama College Students for Nixon/Lodge), it might as well change its acronym to Grand Old Pedophile.
And the national party’s cowardice in this Alabama uncivil war will swamp any pretensions it may have to the moral high ground of American politics.
[1]: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/12/harper_lee_roy_moore_and_alaba.html
As an obvious Presidential self-groomer this guy’s got the meaningless posturing down, and he’s staked out an identity as the nice young fella, well edumacated, the kind the Fox viewers would like to introduce to their unmarried daughters if he weren’t already married heh heh heh. But when it comes to defending his actual funky votes on the debate stage after things start going really wrong I’m not sure he can hit big-league pitching. 'Course he’s not dumb so I guess we’ll see. Personally I’m starting to absolutely loathe him. He’s Ryan but from the humanities side.
“Sassy Ben!”
What’s wrong, Bendoverfortrump Sasse? Seeing your presidential aspirations fading away because your party is going to be labeled a bunch of kiddy-diddler supporters?
So brave and true, Sassy! Just like phony fuckhead Flake.
LOL!
Mr. Mackie explains what the Republican Party has been doing to the country for about 70 years:
Dipshit voted for the tax bill. Fuck him.
I have a head start on you. We were still living in Nebraska when Sasse ran for Senate so I began loathing him in 2014.
Moore will win. He will not face a ethics investigation either.
It’s just a more enlightened form of opportunism. He’s positioning himself to be the only Republican with a chance of winning in 2020 after scandal and backlash shatter the GOP and people are mad at Democrats for not fixing the damage fast enough. And counting on his unbroken record of hard right economic and Talibangelical social heterodoxy to win the primaries.
The primaries may be his downfall given that the base has finally established that it doesn’t give a damn about the ideology and really only wants to see harm visited upon those they deem Other, even if it hurts them too.
He has, however, supplanted the Zombie Eyed Granny Starving Pissboy Ryan as the “reasonable, sensible, presentable policy wonk conservative” so indispensable to the MSM cosmology, enabling them to at least edge up to exposing him as a fraud, but that’s a mixed blessing.
Oh Ben, our hearts go out to you. Your courageous stand and vocal consternation will be remembered always. Now you can go back to sucking the Koch brother’s cocks with a clear conscience.
Bad! Very sad!
Such a clowncar of a party. Sasse, you can run indy and probably win in a place like Nebraska. Just ditch 'em.
And yet you continue to be a member of the party, Senator. You don’t have to be. You could declare yourself an independent.
Woof. THAT is a take down. From an old white male Alabama Baptist minister no less. Just WOW
To quote the twitter follower who posted this:
"I’ll see your “anti-gay TN senator had affair with addict subordinate nurse who was also his second cousin,” and raise you one “anti-gay Okla. lawmaker caught with teen boy, pot at cheap motel while wearing misogynist t-shirt emblazoned with Bible verse.”
In Moore (Oklahoma) no less 
This is simply a really good read from Marcotte over at Salon. Once again, she nails it.