Mitch McConnell has called on Roy Moore to step aside. This adds to a growing list of Republican Senators who have un-endorsed him or called on him to step aside.
What is the play here?
Moore ran AGAINST Mitch McConnell as much as anyone else. His entire persona is wrapped up in sticking his finger in whoever's eye happens to be handy. Why in the world would Moore listen to McConnell? And McConnell has to know that.
The smart guess going around is that Moore is now losing to Jones AND Moore is hurting the Republican party overall. While a concerted blitz might save Moore's election chances, it would cripple the GOP in precisely those suburban districts that flipped so hard in Virginia last week.
It looks like the GOP has decided that losing the Alabama Senate seat is necessary to save the national party, even if it makes things like the tax cuts even harder to pull off. If so, that would demonstrate that perhaps, just perhaps, being a creepy pedophile really IS a deal breaker for the GOP in certain parts of the country.
However, and this is really amazing, being a pedophile is NOT a deal breaker for the so-called "values voters" among evangelical Christians.
I will never claim to be a good Christian. There are too many theological problems I have with most of the faith to feel comfortable saying that.
But I am objectively and categorically anti-child molester. If you're not....Jesus wept.
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