Another piece of crap from the AP. So Moore is a fighter, ex Vietnam vet and kick boxer who does not give up. Did not mention much about the details in the allegations of sexual assault against minors, did not mention the huge salary he paid himself from his organization that is backed by white supremacists. Does not mention his racist statements at all. See Moore is a tough guy, who does not give up, give me a goddamned break. What a tongue bath. Why does the AP feel the need to canonize him like this, oh yeah it is the AP, whoâs speciality is limp wristed centrist garbage like this article that sanitizes an extremist asshole. He may be controversial, but he will fight to the end. Puke.
Roy Moore apparently believes only he is faultless, no matter what he does. He was ârightâ to defy the Constitution, SCOTUS, and the AL judicial ethics committee twice. His reading of his brand of the bible is the only ârightâ one we all should be forced to live by, regardless that we are a secular nation, governed by rule of law, not any religionâs dictates.
Trying to reach the ends he has decided should be our collective goal, no matter what any of us think, he will hijack the system and hold all of us hostage until we adopt his plan for us. It seems likely (and I sincerely hope) the AL GOP will short-circuit his efforts, certify the election, and allow us all to go on from here.
This is just Trumpism in action. Trump more than implied that he would not concede the presidential election if he lost. Moore is just putting that plan into action. Look for this to become increasingly ânormalâ when Republicans lose close elections.
A point and a half is not a blowout but it isnât close either. The game is over. Time to consign Moore to the dust bin of history. I am worried about his mental health. He needs to be watched closely so he doesnât use his 2nd Amendment rights to hurt himself or others.
Iâm not a big admirer of the APâs political commentary, either, and I found the article almost useless in the literal sense that I did not learn much from it â but as for why it did not include sufficient criticism of Moore (along the lines of your comment): the writerâs focus was elsewhere, as reflected in the headline.
Only 45 exceeds Moore in his unabashed, unmitigated, utterly transparent phoniness. What was that line in the Catcher in the Rye? âThe phonies are coming in the goddam window?â
I rather prefer the colbert treatment:
Battling beyond a bitter end and losing decisivelyâŚ
Completely agree. Itâs now a predictable epilogue of a Republican loss that Democrats still have to battle for the election result to be duly enforced and acknowledged as legitimate.
The unspoken basis for this one-sidedness is that the Democratic party and its multiethnic, secularist ideology is basically illegitimate, because the country fundamentally belongs to the white Christian Americans. Republicans of course subscribe to this idea, but so to does the media. Nothing illustrated this more clearly than the Bush-Gore electoral fiasco, when Republicans immediately declared victory and, for no reason that I could see, were met with a general cultural assent, even from Democrats, who âdeep downâ felt unable to assert their claim with an equal sense of their right. The media certainly did not dare challenge the presumption of superior legitimacy that Bush & co laid claim to, and in fact reinforced it constantly.
The âdeep stateâ in our country, if you want to talk about it, is precisely the demographic that imagines itself as the pre-Constitutional Americaâthe residual nation that underlies the Constitution. The FBI, the Supreme Court majority, the CIA: these institutions are of course devoted to the rule of law, but when it comes to the constitutional crunch, will almost naturally favor the Republican nativist ideology rather than the âartificialâ Democratic party. Bush v. Gore was this deep state in action. So was the FBIâs anti-Clinton interference in the 2016 election. The only reason that the FBI is now on the side of the Democrats is that Republicans have brazenly forged a de facto alliance with Russia, an enemy of the state. And yet nobody doubts that if Democrats were in such an alliance, they would have been arrested en masse by now. One rule of law applies to them, another to Democrats. Thatâs the real deep state right there.
Wait â did you just say that the CIA is devoted to the rule of law?
I love the last line. Just what I suspected. Sounds like his supporters are a bunch of vampires.
I think Roy will start a shelter for teen age girls who need Christian morals in their lives.
True the writers intention is to show that Mooreâs refusal to concede is typical of his past. I just donât like that the tone of the article is to paint this in a positive light, while excluding certain details about Moore himself. As per Moore, âWe are indeed in a struggle to preserve our republic, our civilization, and our religion, and to set free a suffering humanity. And the battle rages on,â this kind of struggle for civilization speak has become common in the GOP propaganda cycle. It tries to paint anyone who is not a white Christian Republican as the âotherâ, and even worse somehow the catalyst for the apocalypse. To me Mooreâs obstinance in not conceding comes from this dark place. I think this kind of rhetoric is dangerous, and I donât appreciate the AP portraying it as the result of some irrascible old scrapper who does not know the meaning of the word âquitâ. A lot of this rhetoric was put in play during the Obama Presidency, and I think the press failed miserably to call it out then as well. In fact, articles like this, and I would put it in a similar category as the Times article that tried to portray the white supremacist as an average joe, have become all too common in our media.
Thank you for elaborating. I appreciate it, and I imagine others do as well.