Why are so many Alabamians voting for Roy Moore, even after nine women say he sexually assaulted or pursued them when they were teenagers? They believe the women were paid to do so. They believe it is a "George Soros assassination plan." — Read the rest

As if we haven't already heard, Trump again tweeted this morning that he wants Roy Moore, who has a thing for young teenage girls, to beat Doug Jones, "a former state attorney who prosecuted child molesters and pedophiles." As they say, "Birds of a feather…"

LAST thing the Make America Great Again Agenda needs is a Liberal Democrat in Senate where we have so little margin for victory already.

"He's a liar," says Debbie Wesson Gibson of Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican nominee for U.S. Senate who has been accused by five women of pursuing them when they were teenagers. Moore denies knowing Gibson, but she says that Moore dated her when she was 17 and that he kissed her (with her consent). — Read the rest

You know things are ugly in the Roy Moore camp when they start shoving journalists from Fox News, of all outlets. The camera crew was trying to get a shot of Moore as he entered through a side entrance at a rally in Alabama. — Read the rest

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Today, after an exclusive series of interviews with accuser Jaime T. Phillips, The Onion was able to publish just such a story, revealing that Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore impregnated her during a sexual relationship conducted while she was 15 years old.

During Roy Moore's judicial bouts — punctuated by frequent removals from the bench for gross misconduct — he was part of the mass incarceration wave in America, which has resulted in millions of black people being thrown in prison on flimsy pretenses for long sentences, while whites in similar situations have gone free.

In discussing allegations on CNN that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore assaulted a minor teenage girl Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak pointed out that Ringo Starr was "thirtysomething" when he covered "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine."

From Washington Examiner:

"You know, in 1973, Ringo Starr hit No.

The term "values voter" is taken to mean someone who votes for politicians on the basis of their personal integrity and values; in reality, polls and studies show that evangelicals who identify as "values voters" support candidates they know to be repugnant or even monstrous, if they believe that those politicians will promise to take away abortion rights and persecute queers.

Threatening to sue journalists who paint you in an unflattering light has been a pretty effective tactic for the Trump crowd — hell, Trump's special advisor Peter Thiel managed to destroy an entire media company in retaliation for their coverage of him, by secretly fronting legal fees for a clownish wrestler who had sex with his friend's wife — but multiply accused child molestor and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore isn't very good at it.

Tina Johnson was 28 when she says Roy Moore assaulted her in his legal office in 1991.

Excerpt from the full story at AL.com:

According to Johnson, he asked questions about her young daughters, including what color eyes they had and if they were as pretty as she was.

Roy Moore, still the Republicans' Senate candidate in December's special election despite allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl, was reportedly banned from the Gadsden, Ala., mall for his unwelcome interactions with teenage girls there.

This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls.

This is wonderful to hear people saying on network TV.

Frank Schaeffer, interviewed by Joy Reid on AM Joy, absolutely lets loose on the incredible cognitive dissonance the party of Family Values must maintain to support disgusting politicians like Roy Moore and Donald Trump.

GOP leader Mitch McConnell believes Roy Moore's victims and says the former judge should step down as his party's candidate in this month's Alabama senate race. The AP reports that McConnell "believes the women who were quoted" in a Washington Post story about Moore's relationships with then as teens. — Read the rest

When Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore was accused of sexually molesting children as young as 14, his fellow hardcore evangelicals shrugged at the scandal — it was "common knowledge" that Moore had a fondness for young teens. — Read the rest

A former colleague of Roy Moore, the Alabama Senatorial candidate accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with teens, claims this behavior was "common knowledge."

Via CBS:

"It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird," former deputy district attorney Teresa Jones told CNN in comments aired Saturday.

Stephen Colbert brilliantly highlights the obvious.

Is it too much to hope that Alabamians, 90 percent of who say religion is "very important" or "somewhat important" (more than any other state), are as disgusted as everyone else by the credible allegations of Roy Moore's sexual misconduct against minors? — Read the rest

Edmund Burke wrote that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," but these are not good men. They're silent because they're too close to the catch.

Ultra right-wing Christian GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore is accused of having sexually abused four underage girls, the youngest of whom was 14 at the time.
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Roy Moore's judicial career died not on a hill but a tacky Christian cut of the 10 commandments inside the courthouse and hatin' on the gays. But he's back in style, thrashing incumbent Alabama Republican Sen. Luther Strange to take his party into the next election. — Read the rest

Wow. One of Alabama's Senate candidates, Roy Moore, refers to Native Americans as "reds" and Asians as "yellows." He is competing with – and leading – Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP Senate runoff next week.

In a speech on Sunday, he said, "We were torn apart in the Civil War — brother against brother, North against South, party against party. — Read the rest