A Senate Candidate Who Should Instead Run for the Border

Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
and Republican U.S. Senate candidate in 2017 who lost
what should have been an easily winnable race in a
solid red state to a far-left Democrat because of accusations
of improperly touching and making sexual advances toward
teenage girls has again declared himself a Senate candidate.

Although claiming the accusations against him were "smear
campaign", Judge Moore lost the by-election to fill the U.S.
Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions upon the latter's
appointment and confirmation to be United States
Attorney General to Democrat Doug Jones, a former United
States Attorney who in fact defeated Moore in the 2017
election to serve the portion of the term which Jeff Sessions
had remaining. Some of the accusations were from some
decades earlier, and Moore's gainsaying of them all was not
sufficient to dispel the concerns of many Alabama voters.
But there's more to Moore and his controversies than meets
the eye:

Moore was twice a guest on a conspiracy-theorist radio show
in Maine, the Aroostook Watchmen program whose co-hosts
promote "false flag" theories about the 9-11 attacks, the
Sandy Hook Massacre, the Boston Marathon Bombing,
and other mass shootings and terrorist attacks. Apparently
Moore is known throughout his home state for sharing some
of these views regarding these tragedies, never mind the
lack of solid evidence to support the claims made and held
by this radio show's hosts and much of their audience.
Furthermore, Judge Moore opined on this show that getting
rid of all of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution after
the Tenth Amendment would "eliminate many problems".
What problems could Moore have been referring to?
Removing these later amendments would mean jettisoning
the Thirteenth Amendment (which abolished slavery); the
the Fourteenth Amendment (which preserves equal protection
under the law); the Fifteenth Amendment (which prevents the
government from denying persons the right to vote based on
race, color, or previous condition of servitude); and the
Nineteenth Amendment (which guaranteed Women's Suffrage,
whereas women could, among other things, have the right
to vote). Could the former Alabama Supreme Court
Chief Justice have a problem with any of the benefits to our
country that these amendments guarantee? While campaign-
ing in 2017 Moore was asked about his remarks, to which
he stated that he didn't favor the repeal of these amendments
but rather was commenting on "the historical trend since the
ratification of the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments)
of federal empowerment over state empowerment."
Your diligent Peasant here opines that any encroachment
of federal government over state and, for that matter, local
government has been due to the rather creative reading and
interpretation of the Constitution as a document by power-
hungry politicians, the kind that we shine our light of scrutiny
upon here on this blog, not due to the existence of said
amendments following the Tenth Amendment.
Any conservative, especially one in government in any
capacity, knows this --- or should. What gives, Judge Moore?

Moore also opposes the teaching of the theory of evolution
in school because it has been the cause of an increase in
drive-by shootings, with criminals "acting like animals
because we've taught them they come from animals."
All your astounded Peasant can say in response to this
claim is "Wow!" ---- just "Wow"! Now, I happen to think
that schools should be able to present the arguments re:
the origins of our world and her life forms in a straight-up,
unbiased, place each sides points on the table and let the
students form their own opinions. Sadly, Judge Moore's
main objection to even mentioning evolution in the
schools is so nonsensical and devoid of facts and logic
that it embarrasses the creationist side of the debate,
so that it would make it difficult, if not impossible
for minds not yet made up to even seriously consider
the merits of the creationists' overall argument.

Add to this Moore's track record of losing Republican
primaries as well as general elections for various offices,
including governor, in Alabama --- largely due to his
breathtakingly wild statements such as those mentioned
here in this piece and his association with conspiracy
theorists and political extremists throughout his rather
colorful political career. President Trump, who had
backed Moore's previous candidacy (albeit unenthusi-
astically), advised Moore to drop his campaign for the
Senate because of all his baggage, some of which
undoubtedly cost him the 2017 special election for
said Senate seat in a state where any Republican candidate
would have been a slam dunk --- that is, any Republican
candidate who isn't Judge Roy Moore. Given how
politically conservative Alabama is, therefore how strong
the GOP is in that state, one wouldn't think it would be
difficult to find a suitable candidate to run against
Senator Jones in next year's election, a candidate with
at the very least a reasonable chance to win, wouldn't
one? At the very least, a candidate that wouldn't be
an embarrassment to both the Republican party and
the state of Alabama.

Let us hope that the Republicans in Alabama share the
president's concerns and sentiments, lest the Democrats
entrench themselves further in Alabama's political soil
and gain a stepping stone to winning control of the Senate.


MEM