There’s an article in the NYT by an Alabama law professor who suggests that the Senate could expel Moore and that the governor could then appoint a replacement (like was done by her predecessor with Luther Strange), with the “special” election pushed back to next November.
So this is going to be the worst of both worlds for the morally degenerate assholes that still support Moore.
He will never serve in the Senate and they’ve been outed supporting pedophilia. Maybe there is a God and He’s revealing the false prophets? Or maybe it’s just karma?
Expel Moore if he wins?
Only because expelling Alabama remains sadly unrealistic …
No shit they should, it’s called having standards
Gracious. There is a herd bolting to get on the bandwagon.
Not that I mind, though.
Would there be a legal mechanism for making Jones Senator, if the Senate refuses to seat Moore? That doesn’t sound quite kosher. I read another variant of this argument, in which the governor herself refuses to allow the election of Moore to hold. Obviously that would be a preposterous abuse of power.
But remember that Democrats are the party in disarray.
Clouds and shadows.
Whatev. Just don’t fuck with the 2nd Amendment, OK? It’s the only one that’s important.
Just goes to show how much faith the GOP has in Deep Red Alabama.
Getting kicked out of jobs is Moore’s best thing.
Each day I wake up and think “Can I really be this embarrassed for my country??”
pshah, what you are missing is that what Moore did is not uncommon but rather traditional or cultural for Alabama. But before getting to that, how can the GOP possibly have a problem with Moore when the entire GOP supported and still supports Clarence Thomas who we all know was guilty as hell of sexually harassing not only Anita Hill but others as well and was rewarded with a lifetime appointment to the United States Supreme court. That is like Moore, everyone has always known the Hill was telling the truth, the lie detector test Hill took but Thomas refused did not hurt either, because when Hill made her complaints public Thomas’s behavior, like Moore’s in Alabama in the 1970s, was not only very common but in fact almost the norm.
So as to Moore, everybody who ever lived in Indiana or South of the Mason Dixon line knows the women are telling the truth. That is what Moore did in his 30s back in the 1970s is normal culture for the South. A man goes out, works hard and establishes himself professionally and then marries a virgin, be she 12, 13 or 17. But this brings up two very important points. The first is that “Values” in front of the word “Voter” is and has always been code for Race. The second is that Racism is fundamentally at odds with Christianity and therefore any racist claiming to be a Christian is by definition a hypocrite. This was true of the late Jerry Falwell, his son Jerry Falwell Jr. and the entire Evangelical movement within the Republican Party. I mean Jesus was about helping the poor but because of the link between class and race in America, the Evangelical movement which has its origins in support of Slavery and Racism, has become what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison called “fake Christians”, Christians who are only are concerned with the divinity of Christ and oppose the morality of Christ.
Not going to happen as it would require the Senate to focus on something other than depriving people of healthcare, tax cuts for billionaires or guns for the mentally ill.
Don’t forget packing the federal bench with brainless subsidiaries of Koch Enterprieses.
Good luck getting out the vote w/ that strategy. You can either hold his core supporters or the 5-10% of actual, principled conservatives – not both. No. I don’t think there’s a winning strategy here – unless he steps aside, the GOP loses the seat.
The statements from these deplorable twits will lack integrity as long as Trump is the leader of their party.
Or neither and instead women are finally getting tired of being treated like shit, realizing if they speak up they might finally get heard and believed?
Given the current circumstances, even a narrow Moore victory followed by expulsion is the best possible outcome for Republicans.
Republican governor appoints his replacement and he’s been eliminated from any future race and the national party maintains their dignity,… such that it is. Trump is still POTUS.
It’s not just Alabama; lest we forget, the country is now led by a man who boasted of his sexual attacks on tape. Somehow, none of this bears mention in the context of the Moore scandal. The GOP is the party of no moral standards, period.