Moore moral posturing
Roy Moore—the former judge responsible for the Alabama “Ten Commandments” imbroglio—wrote a piece for the Moonie Times in which he blames the GOP’s midterm failures on a “widespread rejection of moral principles,” which, of course, coincide with Moore’s personal religious choice of right-wing Christianity. Joe Conn at AU criticizes Moore’s conclusion, noting that “his snake oil failed miserably when applied in his own race for public office:”
After Moore was bounced off the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to obey a federal court order to remove a 2.5-ton Ten Commandments monument from the State Judicial Building, the defrocked jurist decided to use his notoriety as a platform to seek the office of governor.Moore ran in the GOP primary against incumbent Gov. Bob Riley. Riley is no liberal, but he had (shudder) sought to alter the state tax code to increase the tab for the wealthy and (horrors) lessen the burden on poor and working-class citizens. Riley’s plan failed, and the state’s political establishment had all but written his obituary. Surely, if there is any place in our fair land where the voters would be responsive to Moore’s brand of religio-political hooey, it would be demagogue-loving, Bible-Belt Alabama. Here was a tax-and-spend do-gooder running against a staunchly conservative Moral Giant with a Moses complex.
And what happened? On June 6 of this year, Alabama Republicans went to the polls and reelected Riley by a 67-33 percent margin. By 2-1, they gave Moore and his narrow-minded “moral values” crusade a good thumping-- as President Bush might put it!