Moore, Moore, Moore

How do you like him?  How do you like him?

Yecch!  I don't!

I already endorsed Doug Jones, the opponent of the Alabama U.S. Senate Republican nominee, saying that Roy Moore was f--kin' nuts.  But he's also f--kin' sick.  It seems he had a sexual encounter with a 52-year-old woman . . . when she was fourteen.  Moore is 70.   

Senate Republicans were already resigned to Moore's election to the Senate, as the last time a Democrat was elected to the Senate from that state was 1992, and that Democratic senator, Richard Shelby, became a Republican two years after (and remains in office today).  They don't like Moore, but they need his vote to pass tax reform, which I promise I will comment on if these breaking stories and scandals ever stop happening.  But with women turning away from the GOP in droves and Moore becoming the latest poster boy for the party's outright misogyny and indecency, the last thing the congressional Republican caucuses on either side of the Capitol want is an association with a pedophile.  And to think this is the same Roy Moore who was the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, insisted in posting the Ten Commandments in front of the state Supreme Court building.

Alabama voters, many of whom are evangelicals, plan to vote for him anyway, because they don't believe the accusations. Which would be fine if there were a reason to give Moore the benefit of the doubt.  But there isn't.  Three other women have accused Moore of sexual impropriety, and there are thirty corroborators between them.  And the 52-year woman who made the first accusation, Leigh Corfman, has voted Republican regularly in recent presidential elections, undermining the argument that this is a coordinated Democratic smear campaign.   If you believe Moore's denials, you obviously believe Bill Cosby's denials of improper behavior with 59 different women (and you are, just as obviously, an idiot).           

Senate Republicans say that Moore should step down if these accusations are true, and that may sound like chickening out, but they've actually gone farther than many of Moore's supporters in Alabama, one of whom, a state legislator, said that Corfman, not Moore, should be prosecuted - for defamation, presumably.  But one Republican - Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon who knows a thing or two about decency per his religious upbringing, has looked at the evidence and come right and said that he believes Corfman.  Romney said that Moore must step aside - no ifs, ands or buts about it.

Too bad he doesn't currently hold office.

But John McCain does.  The senator from Arizona echoed Romney's sentiments. "The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying," McCain said.  "He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of."

Be that as it may, Moore will probably win the December 12 special election, because he can't be replaced on the ballot, he won't step down anyway, and a vote for Doug Jones is considered an even greater sin.  But Moore, who would be up for a full six-year-term in 2020, may not last that long.  Senate Republicans may soon come to the realization that Moore can't remain in office if he in fact does become Alabama's next U.S. Senator and, ultimately, expel him.

How soon would that be?  Right after tax reform gets passed.

Donald Trump - no stranger to sexual-harassment allegations - will probably be removed from office soon.

How soon?  See my answer to the previous question.