The Roy Moore allegations post

The main factors involved:

• Two of the women were over the Alabama age of consent at the time and one was 14. 
• He pulled down an undisclosed $180,000 salary from the Foundation for Moral Law despite telling a jury in 2011 that he didn't.
• He's been married to his wife for 33 years, has four children and several grandchildren. So far, no one is alleging any infidelity.
• He has been ousted twice as Alabama Chief Justice for unconstitutional stunts.

For starters, let's knock it off with the attempt to justify two of the relationships. A man in his thirties dating girls in their mid-teens is unseemly by pretty much anybody's standards.

His wife is set to file a defamation suit against the Washington Post. I guess it's her prerogative, and she must feel strongly about this. However, it strikes me as an inability to read political tea leaves. Would the Post not bring its A game in terms of lawyers?  She had better have every last duck in a row, and at this point it looks like there are a lot of leads to nail down for the purpose of constructing an airtight refutation of the claims.

Regarding those unconstitutional stunts, in each case, it involved displaying the Ten Commandments on courthouse grounds, and for this reason, LITD finds it particularly disturbing. The last thing this culture needs is grandstanding and hot-dogging over sacred texts. Moore is in the mold of Arizona's Joe Arapaio, an embodiment of yee-hawism that appeals to the worst instincts of certain people who happen to vote right of center. It's no surprise that several Breitbart writers have bent over backwards to make excuses for Moore since this broke.

In a society starved for a convincing assertion of the necessity for a Christian foundation to its institutions, there could be no more counterproductive standard-bearer that Moore. He opens every Republican who utters a word about traditional values up to charges of hypocrisy and boneheadedness.

Count LITD on the Moore-must-go side of the ledger.