Moore's win is bad for Alabama, and even worse for the GOP [View all]
As a proud Alabaman, I'm walking today with my shoulders slumped. Roy Moore is the Republican nominee to be the next U.S. senator from my state, and he is likely to be elected in December. Moore is bad for Alabama and worse for the GOP.
To liberals, having Moore in the Senate will be the gift that keeps on giving. He will be the mainstream media's favorite Republican senator. They will count on Moore to embody every negative stereotype that a conservative from Alabama and an elected Republican can have. And based on what we know about Moore, he is unlikely to disappoint. Liberals couldn't be happier. Finally, there is a truly anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Muslim, anti-everything elected Republican for all the world to see.
Beyond believing that he is divinely guided, Moore doesn't really have a governing point of view. At least not one that is applicable to this century. To suggest that Moore represents something Trumpian only confirms the worst things said about the president. The idea that Moore sees the world the way some cantankerous Republicans such as Ted Cruz, R-Texas, do is an insult to Cruz.
And to those who say that Moore's election is somehow good for President Donald Trump, well, I wonder exactly what they think Trump might gain from the presence of an ill-informed, failed demagogue in the GOP Senate caucus. Alabama specifically and Republicans everywhere will suffer as a result of Moore's presence in Washington.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/column-roy-moores-win-is-bad-for-alabama-and-even-worse-for-the-gop/2338975
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