I abhor that fact that Roy Moore will probably be the next US Senator from Alabama as long as he can stay out of jail for having sex with teenagers, but in Alabama, you can have sex with a 16 yr old legally as long as it’s consensual and you’re not their teacher, in which case it would have to be 19 for a student-teacher sexual relationship, i.e., you can have sex with your college professor when you’re 19 as many do.  Note that at least 1 of Moore’s accusers also say he gave them alcohol, which would be illegal since they were all under 19, but the SOL on that has run out; however, there is no SOL on rape, or second degree sexual abuse, the latter of which is at least the minimum Moore could be charged with per what the then-14 yr old alleged victim claims, and it’s a felony.

However, voters nowadays may not approve of the then-32 yr old Moore having sex with or someone that age marrying a 16 yr old & may show that displeasure at the polls. Besides the political repercussions of being a cradle-robber, the only claim he’s really fighting legally is the then-14-yr old’s claim, as that’s statutory rape if it was consensual & you can add 1st degree rape to that if not, as she claims it was.

I imagine Moore has built up enough Brownie points with the US Dept of Justice in Alabama to avoid getting charged if it’s just her word against his, and I believe that GOP voters will sell their soul to the Devil to keep a Republican in that seat, so I believe Moore will get elected, but it will be a slim margin of 1 point instead of the landslide it usually is.

Next question is whether the Senate will seat him or not. When the House tried to unseat Adam Clayton Powell, the SCOTUS ruled that was illegal. I imagine a majority GOP SCOTUS would use that basis & feel the same about Moore as long as he isn’t found guilty of a crime, but politically, it may be tough for senators to support him & they may pressure him to resign or fail to give him committee assignments or even acknowledge his presence, which they’re allowed to do. SCOTUS can’t help him politically in the Senate — he has to stand on his own two feet there, but that will be impossible, I believe.

Alabamians may already know this and figure that a GOP governor (Kay Ivey) will appoint another Republican and they’ll retain the seat, so they win either way. They figure that’s still better than giving it to a Democrat.

These 4 women waiting 40 years to come forward all at once, and not having come forth when he ran for the Alabama CJ seat twice (and won each time) and also running for Governor, well, that’s highly suspicious. I believe that he did have sexual relations with all 4 of those girls, and that it was consensual, and I believe they may have been unearthed by that WP reporter and otherwise would have never said anything about it because they were embarrassed.

The problem is that the alleged sex with the 14-yr old is illegal even if “consensual” (a 14-yr old can’t legally give consent in Alabama or anywhere else in America), and politically speaking, I don’t think many GOP voters will vote for a cradle-robber even though it was legal to have sex with the other 3 girls who were 16 & up.

Roy Moore doesn’t follow the rules & neither does his kid who’s been arrested 9 times in his young life. Have YOUR kids been arrested 9 times? If the guy can’t even take care of his own family, how is he going to take care of Alabama & America in the Senate? He’s already proven that he doesn’t follow the rules more than once & lost his elected job over it, and his son doesn’t follow the rules either, and now he’s allegedly had sexual relations with teenager half his age at the time, and one who was a minor, which by legal definition for sex purposes in Alabama is someone under 16.

At some point, Alabamians are going to have to demand that simply being a fervent Christian Bible thumper & white male gun owner alone just aren’t enough evidence to make a person qualified to represent them.

Alabamians voted for Roy Moore because he represents their outlook — overbearing self-righteous religiosity, religious bigotry, racial bigotry, hatred of those who are not successful & wealthy & white — the good ol’ boy network.

Moore has appropriated religion so much that many in Alabama think they’re voting against God if they vote against Moore. What’s amazing is that the poor & middle class whites are willing to vote for a party that doesn’t have their best interests at heart because a cadre of well-off GOP-ers have made it a socio-political club that you have to be in or die socially & economically; they have to be a religious GOP voter or they’re shunned from their society, even though they have nothing to gain by electing Republicans other than a stand against blacks & being a part of the dominant peer group.

Our world has become very socially aware because it’s not just Big Brother watching — everybody is watching everybody now & they’re networking & groupthinking & talking about the same things in private. Imagine if Adolf Hitler had the internet — the Nazis might have been unstoppable as they might have gained a bigger share of the hearts & minds of people everywhere surreptitiously via the web.

That’s what happening now in Alabama with the religious right. Pick a few white right-wing Alabamians & read their Facebook posts. Even the ones who aren’t political expouse religious fervor, right-wing pro-military buildup, typical right-wing slogans, and general hatred of anything that doesn’t service those concepts.

If you heard words like those that Roy Moore uses coming from the leader of an Islamic republic, you would shudder in disgust that he places his religious beliefs above the law & above compassion & respect for its citizens while imposing his misplaced beliefs upon the masses.

Placing his religious “king” above the rule of law is what got him in trouble twice now & will only serve to get him in more legal trouble if elected, though he’s actually quite harmless in the Senate — that’s actually the best place to put him to keep him out of society’s way, except the possibility of any president aspirations or a nomination to a cabinet position (or even the US Supreme Court) where his decisions could harm us.

Judge Roy Moore surely will win the senate race in 2017 because a majority of Alabamians feel the same way & believe in the same things that he does, and that’s the sad part. A guy like Hitler could be an Alabama Governor or Senator today because Hitler & white Alabamians have a lot of the same ideals — just different methods, though I believe many Alabama whites would vote to put blacks & other minorities in concentration camps & exterminate them if they could.

This is the same state that voted for Richard Nixon 3 times (1960, 1968 & 1972); also 41% of them voted in 2001 to NOT remove the law that barred interracial marriage even though it was strictly a formality to put it on the ballot — it had been overturned in 1967 by SCOTUS (Loving v. Virginia). Apparently you can’t change the Alabama state constitution unless it’s done by a vote of the people, and there have been instances where the striking of an amendment that was in conflict with Federal laws lost on the ballot; i.e., the voters elected not to remove it as a protest vote even though it has no legal effect. This happened in 2004 & 2012 when voters struck down amendments to remove segregationist laws even though they’re unconstitutional.

You could ask an old white Baby Boomer when the good times were & he’ll say “The 50’s, when we kept blacks in their place”, and you say “The 1950’s?”, and he’d say “No, the 1850’s when they were in chains.” Folks, this is no joke — this is how many of these people truly think & feel. It hasn’t helped that a lot of the black population is making their race look bad & making the old whites feel justified.

I’m not going to say there’s no way this nutbag couldn’t get elected president as I said that about Trump years ago and look what happened.