Politics is the only arena where a gutless coward like Mitch McConnell can say, “I’m going to let the people of Alabama decide” about whether he should work alongside a pedophile like Roy Moore.
IN EVERY OTHER ARENA, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, Americans would take a stand.
Can you imagine a dental hygienist or a machinist or a nurse saying:
“Yes, this man has multiple female accusers claiming that he sexually harassed and/or assaulted them when they were underage, and yes, these women possess an enormous amount of circumstantial evidence supporting their claims, and yes, he was banned from a damn mall for harassing young women, and yes, he once called a girl out of high school math class to ask her on a date when he was a 28 year-old assistant district attorney, but if the boss thinks it’s okay for him to work alongside me, I’m fine with that, too.”
No, Mitch McConnell. You can have an opinion on Roy Moore regardless of what the voters of Alabama decide. That’s called leadership, dumbass. It’s called “having a spine.” It’s what good, decent people do everyday. We make moral choices instead of transactional choices.
Yesterday Donald Trump offered his full support to Roy Moore for the first time.
Last night the Republican Party followed suit, restoring their support for Moore after withdrawing it two weeks earlier.
The party of the religious right has abandoned every shred of decency and goodness in order to guarantee that their massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest Americans can proceed as planned.
This is a party whose leader has been accused of sexual assault by more than 20 women and who has admitted to sexual assault on tape. He is a man who bragged about going backstage during his beauty pageants in order to see women naked in their dressing rooms.
Now they are also the party that supports pedophiles for the United States Senate.
They are a party of transactional, gutless, immoral politicians who choose to sit on the sidelines and allow evil men to rise to power when it’s convenient for their agenda.
