{"id":135511,"date":"2017-12-04T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135511"},"modified":"2017-12-04T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:26:45","slug":"not-surprisingly-gop-leaders-backed-off-condemning-roy-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/not-surprisingly-gop-leaders-backed-off-condemning-roy-moore.html","title":{"rendered":"Not surprisingly, GOP leaders have backed off condemning Roy Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The votes must flow.<\/p>\n

Republicans, initially eager to distance themselves from Moore after women alleged that he romantically pursued or in some cases assaulted them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, have grown more muted in their criticism and appear to be softening toward the idea of working with him if he wins the Dec. 12 special election. Moore has denied any misconduct.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last month said he believed the women who accused Moore and called for him to drop out of the race. But Sunday on “Face the Nation,” McConnell said Congress would “swear in whoever’s elected and see where we are at that particular point.” House Speaker Paul Ryan, who also initially said Moore should step aside, skirted the issue in an interview with NPR last week, saying he was “focused on Congress,” though he called the allegations “very, very credible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, Donald Trump today went all in on Moore. After having supported his competitor in the primaries, he’s pivoted into full support.<\/p>\n

Which, to me, makes me even more eager to see Moore lose, though he’s now recovered to a slender lead in the polls.<\/p>\n


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The votes must flow. Republicans, initially eager to distance themselves from Moore after women alleged that he romantically pursued or in some cases assaulted them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, have grown more muted in their criticism and appear to be softening toward the idea of working with him if … Continue reading “Not surprisingly, GOP leaders have backed off condemning Roy Moore”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,358,1071],"tags":[1320,1077],"class_list":["post-135511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-roymoore","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/roy-moore-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135639,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/president-conveniently-never-loses.html","url_meta":{"origin":135511,"position":0},"title":"The President Who Conveniently Never Loses","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Dec-17 9:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump had a complicated relationship with Roy Moore. 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