{"id":135363,"date":"2017-11-14T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135363"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:24:01","slug":"even-republican-national-committee-backing-away-roy-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/even-republican-national-committee-backing-away-roy-moore.html","title":{"rendered":"Even the Republican National Committee is backing away from Roy Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ve stopped joint fund-raising events and pulled the people they sent to Alabama to help canvass for him.<\/p>\n

Moore’s trouble have a weird triangle shape to them. In one corner is Moore and his Alabama political supporters. Opposing him, but for different reasons, are the Democrats (locally and nationally) and the national GOP (even the folk out on the fringe of that party, like Ted Cruz).<\/p>\n

Part of the opposition there comes from the charges against Moore. But part of it is old-fashioned politics — the Dems thirsting after a Senate seat, the GOP desperate to avoid losing one but profoundly unhappy with the idea of Moore, an anti-establishment pol \/ religious nutjob \/ accused chaser after under-aged girls getting into the Senate.<\/p>\n

I’m fascinated by intersection of partisan politics and morality on display, even as I find myself repulsed by Moore both based on the (credible) accusations and his (documented) theocratic zaniness. I actually worry about both of those a lot more than the caucus sizes in the US Senate.<\/p>\n

Oh, here’s a bit more about Moore back in those golden 70s<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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\nRNC cuts off Moore – POLITICO<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They’ve stopped joint fund-raising events and pulled the people they sent to Alabama to help canvass for him. Moore’s trouble have a weird triangle shape to them. In one corner is Moore and his Alabama political supporters. Opposing him, but for different reasons, are the Democrats (locally and nationally) and the national GOP (even the … Continue reading “Even the Republican National Committee is backing away from Roy Moore”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,110,348],"tags":[1320],"class_list":["post-135363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-religious-zanies","category-women","tag-roymoore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Roy-Moore.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/senator-cory-gardner-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":135363,"position":0},"title":"Senator Cory Gardner has … chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the election of Doug Moore (BWAH-HA-HA-HA!), my GOP Senator, Cory Gardner, had this to say: \u201cTonight\u2019s results are clear \u2013 the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. 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