In attacking Roy Moore, shameless liberals try to put another one over on the stupid party

Why has the Washington Post published the stories about Roy Moore? Is it because the members of the Post's editorial staff are genuinely concerned for the women he victimized? Right! Is it because they piously believe this kind of misconduct is unconscionable and needs to be discouraged in our society? Please! The Post has published these stories with one simple goal in mind: to try to ensure Roy Moore's defeat and thereby to decrease the Republican majority in the Senate to a single vote. In brief: the attacks on Roy Moore, even if they are true, are politically motivated, the height of cynical hypocrisy, and must be resisted.

If the Post had really been motivated by high moral purpose, they would not have ignored the rapist Bill Clinton and the manslaughterer Ted Kennedy for decades. When Juanita Broaddrick told her convincing story about how Bill had raped her, the Post should have hammered Bill and all the Gloria Allreds of the world should have shouted out their righteous indignation. When the money shot on Monica's dress convicted Bill beyond the shadow of a doubt of using his office to take advantage of an intern, the Post along with all good liberals should have waved their hands and pronounced: "That's it. There are some moral principles that are simply more important than politics." Then, encouraged by Post editorials, every single Democrat senator should have marched to the floor of the Senate and excoriated him and voted to convict him. When Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge in a drunken stupor and caused the death of the woman who was the object of that night's bleary sexual arousal, the Post along with other Democrats should have been the first to move for his expulsion from the Senate.

If the Post and the Democrats had done these things, then, the entire tone of American politics and of public life in general for the last several decades would have been elevated; if the Post and the Democrats had done these things, they would have earned some moral credibility and they could now reasonably expect Republicans to reciprocate by adhering to the same moral principles. But, that is not what they did. Instead they ignored Bill's crimes and even went to the wall for him and worked to exonerate "Chappaquidick" Ted, thereby establishing the rule by which the game has been played ever since, namely: even overwhelming evidence of sexual misconduct is not enough to disqualify a person from political office if it is not politically expedient to do so.

Even now, we need to ignore all the protestations from liberals that they finally believe Juanita, or that, in retrospect, they have seen the light and are reevaluating Bill's vulgar conduct. This is hypocrisy of the most vile and nauseating kind! The fact is: Ted is dead and Bill is no longer relevant, so both can now be easily and costlessly sacrificed by the Dems. But, you can be damn sure that if another prominent male member (pun intended) of their party ever turns out to be a sexual predator, Democrats will doff their temporary cloak of moral punctiliousness and shamelessly ignore his acts of sexual misconduct once again. And the Post will give them cover.

Yes, Democrats and their enablers in the press are shameless. (This is what they hate about Trump so much: he fights on the same vile, shameless level as they do.) But, those Republicans who want Roy Moore to step down are just as bad as Democrats in their own way. These Republicans claim they want to take the high ground; they want to demonstrate their moral superiority by showing that, unlike the Dems, good, country-club Republicans have moral principles that they stick to, even when it is not politically expedient to do so. In the process, these idiots are willing to endanger their majority in the Senate and derail, for example, all the outstanding work Trump has done to take back the judiciary with outstanding appointees like Neil Gorsuch.

When these Republicans withdraw their support from Roy Moore, they are not engaging in some higher moral act, but only helping to reinforce the loathsome narratives and memes disseminated by the Democrats and the liberal press for purely political purposes. And when these idiot Republicans act this way, it does not move the polarized country any closer to reconciliation, it does not engender in Democrats an impulse towards comity, awakening in them a grudging admiration of Republican moral rectitude, and thereby igniting in them a desire to reciprocate by living up to the same moral standards. No, as I wrote above: Democrats are shameless. When Republicans undermine Roy Moore, Democrats and the Post's editors merely squeal with glee that their stratagems have succeeded once again and that they have managed to put yet another one over on the stupid party.