George F. Will Endorses Doug Jones [View all]

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By Colorado Blue at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/13/1715303/-George-F-Will-Endorses-Doug-Jones

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Whoa. Here we have an old fashioned Republican not only decrying the likes of Trump and Moore, but actually ENDORSING A DEMOCRAT.

This is a beautiful editorial actually, which not only describes the qualifications of Jones, who is clearly worthy of the Senate, but also calls into question the “vanity about virtue” of the white Evangelical Right.

Vanity about virtue — how well stated! — and yes — it’s true isn’t it! It’s all too easy to preach fire and brimstone about gay people and attack NFL protesters while completely ignoring the real issues that bedevil our country: inequality; the stubbornness of Jim Crow, especially in the South; misogyny; economic injustice. And coming from an utter hypocrite to boot —

An excerpt from his piece:

Evangelical Christians who embrace Moore are serving the public good by making ridiculous their pose as uniquely moral Americans, and by revealing their leaders to be especially grotesque specimens of the vanity — vanity about virtue — that is curdling politics. Another public benefit from the Moore spectacle is the embarrassment of national Republicans. Their party having made the star of the “Access Hollywood” tape president, they now are horrified that Moore might become 1 percent of the Senate. Actually, this scofflaw, twice removed from Alabama’s Supreme Court, once for disobeying a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, is a suitable sidekick for the president who pardoned Joe Arpaio, Arizona’s criminal former sheriff. Even after Donald Trump conceded that Barack Obama was born in United States, Moore continued rejecting such squishiness.


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