Alabama's Roy Moore would be the most extreme senator - with huge consequences for Congress

[yallerdawg]

This is going to be a national discussion starting Tuesday night!

Will this Alabamafication of America be allowed to continue?

Source: Vox, by Jeff Stein

If Moore wins despite the national GOP’s all-out attack — and the latest polls have him up by 8 points — then McConnell will not just have wasted a ton of money. He’ll also have a new and remarkably powerful antagonist, one who will arrive in Washington owing the majority leader nothing.

“If you’re McConnell, you’re just peeing your pants over the prospect of a Moore win,” said Jim Manley, who served as a top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “It’d be like adding a mini thermonuclear weapon in the Republican caucus — with very dangerous consequences for those trying to reach compromise.”

Republicans in Washington may be beginning to reckon with the prospect of Sen. Roy Moore. Observers of the Senate say a Moore victory could reshape the Senate’s equilibrium — perhaps by giving Democrats greater leverage for working with McConnell, but more likely by simply increasing the body’s dysfunction and inability to compromise, and by giving a national platform to a judge whose political beliefs were once relegated to the far-right fringe of conservatism in Alabama.

“Moore’s ideology is an express belief that God’s law and his interpretation of God’s law stand on top of man’s law,” said David Dinielli, deputy director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has tracked Moore’s career for years. “It’s an ideology that would allow those who think they know the unknowable and the mystic to impose their beliefs on everyone else.”

Read it all at: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/25/16345416/roy-moore-alabama-primary

[Atticus]

1. Don't really care about whether Mitch pees his pants. More concerned about OUR US Senate

seating an aberration even more extreme than Trump. Unlike 45, this horse's ass BELIEVES the crap he spews!

[Old Vet]

2. Yes, Thats why he way more dangerous. He truly believes the hype.

[yallerdawg]

3. Let's hope he freaks out Democrats as much as he does Republicans!

The Alabama special senate election is December 12th!

Democrats turn out scared and Republicans stay home disgusted - we could be at 49 senators caucusing with the Democrats if we can get Doug Jones (D) in there!

Collins and Murkowski switch parties in disgust of that pig "holding the seat" in the White House?

51 Democrats and there really is a Santa Claus!

[COLGATE4]

4. The Alamaba Rethugs won't "stay home disgusted"/

They eat him up like ice cream. He embodies the absolute worst of deep southern conservative/fundamentalist/domionist ideology. He'll be another (worse) Strom Thurmond.