{"id":27135,"date":"2017-12-30T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27135"},"modified":"2017-12-30T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T22:27:13","slug":"go-away-roy-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27135","title":{"rendered":"No more Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGeQ8Q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26688\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGeQ8Q-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGeQ8Q-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGeQ8Q.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roy Moore is distinguishing himself in a dubious manner.<\/p>\n<p>He has emerged as the most ungracious loser in modern U.S. political history.<\/p>\n<p>Moore lost a special election on Dec. 12 to U.S. Sen.-elect Doug Jones, who won by about 20,000 votes in Alabama, or by roughly 1.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, the Republican, refused to concede to Jones, the Democrat, on election night. Not only that, he refused to do so the next day, or the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are, three weeks later and Moore still hasn&#8217;t conceded. Ohh, no. Instead, he sought to overturn the results by declaring &#8212; without proof &#8212; that there was widespread voter fraud in Alabama. The Alabama secretary of state, also a Republican, certified Jones&#8217;s victory; the new senator will take office after being sworn in next month by Vice President Pence.<\/p>\n<p>Moore was a deeply flawed candidate from the get-go. The Alabama judicial conduct commission removed him twice from the Alabama Supreme Court because he refused to follow federal court orders. He is an extreme religious zealot.<\/p>\n<p>Then came allegations of sexual misconduct by several women, one of whom accused Moore of seeking to seduce her when she was just 14 years of age. Hmm. Pedophilia &#8212; allegedly &#8212; anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this clown isn&#8217;t going away. He might run for Alabama governor. Oh, brother.<\/p>\n<p>Just go away.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Moore is distinguishing himself in a dubious manner. He has emerged as the most ungracious loser in modern U.S. political history. Moore lost a special election on Dec. 12 to U.S. Sen.-elect Doug Jones, who won by about 20,000 votes in Alabama, or by roughly 1.5 percent. Moore, the Republican, refused to concede to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No more Moore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7407,7421,1941,4037],"class_list":["post-27135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-alabama-special-election","tag-doug-jones","tag-gop","tag-roy-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27137,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions\/27137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}