Comments on: Moore Sees Himself As a Fighter

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 May 2006 01:25:30 +0000

Yes, Kathy, Elizabeth clearly has it right. We need a man who:

1. Makes a mockery of the Christian faith by prostituting it for political gain.

2. Ignores the U.S. Constitution by stating his religious symbols and
prayers are the only form of religious expression allowed in a public
courtroom.

3. Portrays a bizarre version of Christianity that suggests anger and hate
are at the core of the gospel of Jesus Christ. His theology ignores most
of Scripture between the Old Testament and the Revelation.

4. Promotes a faith focused on attacking others that would make the
Pharisees of Christ’s day blush.

5. Supports the killing of gays and lesbians by sword.

6. Claims Divine support for the racist, incredibly inefficient Alabama
Constitution.

7. Claims Divine support for high taxes for the poorest Alabamians and
virtually no taxes on outside timber interests.

8. Claims, as a judge in an individual state, to not be bound by the
authority of the Consistution of the United States.

9. Proved an unmitigated disaster as an administrator as Chief Justice of
the Alabama Supreme Court.

10. Brought shame on the State of Alabama and the Gospel of Jesus
Christ by his hateful, calculated demagoguery.

Anyone who doesn’t see that Elizabeth has it all figured out clearly picks their nose. What a brilliant analysis of the needs of the great State of Alabama she provided. You need to listen to her. Repent! Believe that Roy understands what God really meant. (Christ tried hard. He just got confused.) Know that Roy understands the real meaning of the Constitution and 220 years of great American jurists and lawmakers all had it wrong. Repent!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:53:43 +0000

Wow, Elizabeth, what a charming observation. The last thing this country needs is leaders who believe in theocracy. The separation of church and state protects both. Some of the worst atrocities this world has ever seen have been perpetrated by people who thought they had God all figured out and wanted everyone else to believe as they did.

No one ever has or ever will prevent Roy Moore from acknowledging God. He’s not allowed to shove it down others’ throats, and that’s as it should be.

By: Elizabeth Del Greco

Elizabeth Del Greco — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:13:13 +0000

A lot of folks are afraid of a strong man like Roy Moore. I guess that comes from watching too much television, or picking your nose too much. This country needs a lot more such men, with courage and convictions.

By: Del

Del — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:38 +0000

Poor soul, I think he really does believe he’s talking to the Lord, and as sometimes happens in these cases, the Lord tells him what he wants to hear–”Run, Roy, run! You will win in a mighty victory of Biblical proportion!” and then he gets himself into this embarrassing situation.

Bless his heart. It’s no worse than what some of the artists were saying in the incredibly pretentious “artist’s statements” I read at an opening last weekend. We’re all having internal dialogues all the time, and many of us like to think of them as profound, meaningful, and even other-directed.

Okay, I have now related Roy Moore to installation art. Talk about other-directed. I’m off to do my God-given work of cleaning the house, and high time, too.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 19 May 2006 12:59:19 +0000

I don’t think even Alabamians vote on the basis of where a candidate’s money comes from. If they did, they wouldn’t vote for anyone taking PAC money, because when it can be traced much of it comes from out of state or from organizations the voters don’t favor. It seems to me that too many voters are really uninformed about candidates and their issues and those people’s votes may be influenced more by what they see and/or hear over their boob-tube or radio. So, when a candidate such as Moore doesn’t have money to compete in that type of advertising they’re at a distinct disadvantage. Moore, I think, miscalculated on how his popularity would prosper by not accepting PAC money now, even though he took it in the past. Another thing that hurts him with those who understand even a bit about how our state government really works can see that he can’t deliver on the various planks in his platform of returning government to the people, so they discount it as just so much empty political rhetoric spouted from an empty head.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 19 May 2006 04:11:36 +0000

Renee, you’re right about Roy’s funding. I wonder if the money he’s getting from out of state is helping or hurting. People here don’t trust outside influences.

By: Del

Del — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:07 +0000

I thought the idea was that he lost a lot of people with his dramatic, and expensive, Last Stand about the rock. They were all for displaying The Ten, but not to the point of actually defying a court order and racking up big legal bills for the state taxpayers. And after that, what Kathy said about Bob.

Bill, I wasn’t trying to conflate BL with Moore. I opined that BL might say, “Roy is shrill and wants to blame everything on the Godless–well, you liberals are shrill and want to blame everything on Bush.” But BL doesn’t seem to have visited us lately. Too busy off in the back room with Anna I guess.

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:22:16 +0000

I’m not “well-connected,” but I’ll weigh in. First off, Moore has very little funding, most of it from out of state. Second, polls are asking “likely Republican voters” who they plan to vote for. It will be interesting to see if these numbers pan out. Moore’s campaign manager thinks the numbers will be higher because of Independant and cross-ever Democrat voters. They’re also counting on the “Wal-mart Republicans”, AKA “Nascar Republicans.” Funding can’t be too great from those sources! We’ll see…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:49:53 +0000

Bulworth, that’s a very good question. I’ve been surprised at how poorly Roy is polling. I think a big part of it is Riley’s performance. He did an excellent job handling the Katrina aftermath. Alabama’s economy is going great right now, with unemployment around 4%. Also, I don’t think Roy’s doing the door-to-door, city to town to farm kind of hands-on politicking that is needed to convince voters to throw out a fairly popular incumbent. He spends more time traveling around the country trying to be an ambassador for Christianism.

Anyone else want to weigh in? I have some well-connected readers who know more about this than I do.

By: Bulworth

Bulworth — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:15:34 +0000

So what’s happened to Roy Moore’s campaign? Not that I’m lamenting his downfall, but wasn’t he about the biggest ticket going in conservative, especially religious conservative circles? What’s contributed to his low poll numbers against a Republican who tried to raise taxes a year or two back?