Did you see Roy Moore last week? Roy Moore loves him some Roy Moore…

I watched ex-Judge Roy Moore’s campaign launch last week. And just like the good little narcissist that he is, Roy Moore made the day all about Roy Moore.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a candidate spend so much time whining about how he been done wrong by a bunch of people who don’t love Jesus and hate Roy Moore. In the first five minutes of his speech, he referred to himself at least a dozen times and rattled off a list of the names of all the bugaboos that are being mean to him. The only person I’ve heard make more noise about himself than Moore did was former Narcissist in Chief Barack Obama.

After spending a sparse few minutes in general platitudes of conservative orthodoxy, he went on and on and on about how the 2017 special election was rigged from get go by people in Washington. Even when asked why he thinks he can win in 2020 he just shrugged and said “I think I won the last election.” He has actually convinced himself that if it wasn’t for “false tactics,” he’d have walked away the winner. The man has never even considered that he lost because he was a bad candidate and ran a lousy campaign.

Last week's presser showed everyone that Roy Moore is as awful today as he was two years ago. Nothing has changed. Moore blames everybody but himself for the 2017 debacle. Ironically, when asked what he planned to do differently this time he suggested that he might make his campaign “more personal.” I’ve gone four paragraphs and just under 300 words without mentioning the chief reason he might not want to talk about that—the credible allegations that he was likely forcibly intimate with very young girls a while back. The idea that a man with that kind of baggage wants to become more intimate with the electorate is just downright creepy.

Roy Moore makes Joe Biden’s touchy-feely brand of personal contact feel almost Andy Griffith-ish. Uncle Joe seems charming and affable. Roy Moore makes you feel like you need a shower. Of course, none of the allegations against Moore have seen the light of day in a court of law. And we do have a presumption of innocence in this nation. But I don’t know anyone who would let their teenagers be alone with Moore for more than two shakes of a wee lamb’s tail.

Those who know my political leanings know that I believe economic liberty is the salve to heal all wounds. It’s the tide that lifts all boats and the wind that fills all sails. There is no problem that cannot be solved with everyone being secure in ones ability to meet basic needs. That liberty is facing a credible threat from our political left and every race in the 2020 election is important to thwarting it.

Nominating Roy Moore almost guarantees Democratic control of a precious seat in the U.S. Senate that used to be safely red. The cause of economic liberty for all cannot be moved ahead when we allow a deeply flawed narcissist to carry our banner. Any of the other candidates—Yes, even Tommy Tuberville—is better able to see that this race is about us, not about him.

Roy Moore—the man who gave us Doug Jones—wants to try again.

I really hope Alabama primary voters have learned their lesson. Doug Jones occupies a US Senate seat because a very small minority of the Alabama electorate thought it would be just swell to have a twice-removed-from-office knuckledragger sit in the Jeff Sessions seat.

Please, Alabama. Don’t do this again.

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Roy Moore, a conservative lightning rod who cost the Republican Party a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama, is signaling fresh interest in mounting another campaign in 2020, sparking alarm on the Right that Democratic Sen. Doug Jones could be gifted another unlikely victory.

Moore, 72, a former state judge, made the rounds at last Friday’s Alabama Republican Party dinner gala. A few days later, a new political action committee run by Moore’s son, Caleb Moore, issued an email fundraising appeal.

Republican insiders, including conservative allies of President Trump, fret that Moore — derailed by sexual assault allegations in a 2017 special election that should have been an easy layup — might divide the party in the primary and advance to a rematch with Jones.

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There are two people who could lose to Doug Jones in the 2020 General Election. Me, and Roy Moore.

Since I’m not running, that leaves Moore.

Anybody but Roy Moore could beat Jones. Jones’ pathetic posturing as an independent thinker has fooled no one. His vote against Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year showed him to be a lockstep Democrat vote on anything of substance coming to a floor in the US Senate. A vote for Doug Jones is a vote for Dick Schumer’s radical, leftwing progressive agenda.

But a vote for Roy Moore in the Senate Primary next March is a vote for a man who was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court. He was remove both times for cause, meaning that after due process of law he was found to have violated his oaths of office and had engaged of conduct unbecoming of a Supreme Court Justice.

Not just once—which could be reasonably explained as a misinterpretation of statute or precedence. But twice—and both times by members of his own judicial and philosophical schools of thought. People of his own kind thought him unfit for office. It's like a bunch of alcoholics expelling a member of their own group of drunks for drinking too much.

A vote for Roy Moore is also a vote for a man who was credibly accused of sexual assault by three different women. None of these women knew each other from Adam’s Housecat, and all three of them independently described being all but forcibly raped by Moore. Two of them were minors, claiming to be 14 and 16 years old at the time of their encounter with Moore.

One accuser can be reasonably explained as a politically motivated smear. Two would be enough for concern. Three would be enough for any reasonable voter to conclude that someone else is worthy of their mark on the ballot. 

A vote for Roy Moore next March all but guarantees that Doug Jones is reelected next November.




Please, Alabama. Don’t do this again.