{"id":26067,"date":"2017-11-10T22:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26067"},"modified":"2017-11-10T22:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:09:55","slug":"moore-vs-jones-taking-a-weird-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26067","title":{"rendered":"Moore vs. Jones taking a weird turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roy Moore is unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate for a lot of reasons.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t respect the Constitution’s provision that declares there is no “religious test” for serving in elective office; he wants to bar Muslims from serving in Congress.<\/p>\n

Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, doesn’t respect the oath he took to obey the law of the land and to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Moore told county clerks they didn’t have to obey a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage across the land.<\/p>\n

He continues to defame Barack Obama by suggesting he wasn’t constitutionally qualified to serve as president.<\/p>\n

And I haven’t even mentioned — until right now — the allegations of sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl in 1979.<\/p>\n

Former Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted today that Moore doesn’t deserve the same presumption of innocence that goes to criminal suspects. I disagree with Mitt — to a point.<\/p>\n

I intend to give Moore some presumption of innocence if charges ever are brought against him. Politically, though, I have to wonder just how Alabama voters can possibly support someone who would take office under such a sinister cloud of suspicion.<\/p>\n

Moore is running for the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama against Democratic nominee Doug Jones. Polls show the race now a dead heat. Republican congressional leaders say Moore should pull out of the race if the allegations are true.<\/p>\n

I can speak only for myself, but I wouldn’t vote for Moore for anything, notwithstanding the new allegations from a woman who’s now 53 years of age. Moore — not surprisingly — denies all the allegations; he calls them “completely false.”<\/p>\n

I dare not predict what Alabama voters will do next month when they vote for their next U.S. senator. My hope is that they turn away from a suspected sexual assailant.<\/p>\n\n

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