He kissed some women he shouldn’t have kissed.
And gosh darn it, people didn’t like that.
So we got today’s resignation of Al Franken from the U.S. Senate.
While Al Franken heads out the back door, it looks like Roy Moore may be walking in the Senate’s front door.
Even though Roy Moore groped some women he shouldn’t have groped.
He kissed some women he shouldn’t have kissed.
But gosh darn it, does it really matter?
It doesn’t matter to Trump... God help me, that stupid, simpering, cowardly, moronic, ignorant, pathetic man-child son of a fucking bitch… who endorsed Moore for the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama.
It doesn’t seem to matter to the Republican National Committee. In the wake of the numerous accusations of Roy Moore’s lecherous advances on under age women, the RNC withdrew its support from the Moore campaign. In the wake of Li’l Donnie’s outright endorsement of Moore in advance of the December 12th election, the RNC has opted to restore its support to Roy Moore.
It sure as hell doesn’t seem to matter to a big chunk of Alabama’s voters with polls still showing a strong and significant level of support, despite the accusations of sexual improprieties with under aged women.
Moore’s actions do matter to the Democratic Party which is why Al Franken had to go. It’s hard to cast aspersions on the character of Roy Moore when the list of women Al Fraken reportedly groped and/or kissed without their consent continued to grow. Maybe the hard right conservatives of the Republican Party I comfortable with their hypocrisy but the Democrats, particularly for women in the party in positions of power, do not have that luxury.
But what about among the Republicans? Is there anyone in the GOP who is embarrassed by the presence of Roy Moore in their party?
Actually, yes. Yes there are.
Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the state’s senior senator, who backed Strange in the primary: “I don’t think anybody’s surprised here. The president’s interested in keeping 52 votes up here, and I’d like to, too. But a lot of us have different views on it, you know.” Shelby cast his vote for a write-in candidate, but he declined to say for whom he voted.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis: “The president has voiced his support for him, so I’m sure that was instructive in [the RNC’s] decision. … That’s a call they have to make; it’s not something I’ve personally done or will do.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said flatly that she does not think the RNC should be supporting Moore.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the third-ranking Senate Republican, said of the RNC’s decision: “I don’t understand that move. I guess that’s consistent with what the president wants to see happen, but it’s not consistent with what I’ve been saying. I just think, again, we’re putting ourselves in a situation where we’re going to have a cloud of uncertainty and a cloud of distraction come January.”
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake tweeted a picture of a check made payable to the campaign of Doug Jones, Moore’s Democratic opponent in the Alabama senate race.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee who has called for Moore’s expulsion should he be elected, said Tuesday that the campaign arm’s position has not changed.
While the RNC is back on the Moore train, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has said that National Republican Senatorial Committee will not get re-involved in Moore’s campaign.
“Look, I’ve made my position perfectly clear,” McConnell said. “I had hoped that Judge Moore would resign — in other words, withdraw from the race. That obviously is not going to happen. If he were to be elected, I think he would immediately have an issue with the Ethics Committee, which they would take up.”
Moore didn’t seem eager to win McConnell’s backing. Toward the beginning of his speech in Fairhope on Tuesday night, Moore ticked off a list of Trump’s unfulfilled promises, from building the wall to rolling back NAFTA. Why weren’t they getting done? “Mitch doesn’t want it,” Moore said.
Which make Moore a liar as well as a pedophile. I have very little respect for Mitch McConnell but if Li’l Donnie’s wish list isn’t getting done, its hard to blame that on McConnell who’s tried every trick in the book to get Trump’s legislative agenda through the Senate. Which is tricky to do when you’re relying only on Republicans and Republicans can’t always agree among themselves what they want to accomplish. Plus add a less than clear and coherent push from Trump’s White House, well, no wonder Trump's laundry list ain't done.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee who has called for Moore’s expulsion should he be elected, said Tuesday that the campaign arm’s position has not changed.
“The last two senators expelled from the Senate were the two Missouri senators in 1862,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), though he said he agrees with Gardner’s decision to have the NRSC stay out of the race. “So expulsion is not something that the Senate has generally thought was the business of the Senate.”
There are questions if the Senate can expel a Senator for conduct prior to that person becoming a Senator.
So there are some Republicans looking at this mess in Alabama and realizing, too little and too late, that the rice for power can be too high.
As for Al Franken, dude you seemed like a good guy as a Senator but with regards to your repeated indiscretions with how you’ve treated women, I am sadly and most sincerely disappointed in you.
And it is more than a bit ironic that as you head out the back door, Roy Moore may welcome get to enter by the front door. And if that happens, I will be sadly and most sincerely disappointed in a whole chunk of a very stupid humanity.
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