GOPpie establishment having a field day with Moore: Note the language

[TygrBright]

"If these allegations are true, he should step aside, etc."

heheheh...

Look, the playbook for HELPING someone who's dealing with some heinous accusation is to give them some cover with language along the lines of "Such allegations and the attendant trial-by-media will make it impossible for him to get a fair shake from voters and do right by the Party, so he really should step down, regardless."

That gives the accused the option of saying "I'm stepping down, not because these terrible slanders are TRUE, but because I care deeply about the Party and blahblahblah..."

The GOPpie establishment types know EXACTLY what they're doing.

They never wanted Moore wished on them to start with.

They HATE the notion of having him in the Senate.

So they're enjoying the hell out of boxing him into a no-win position where he's damned no matter what he does.

They may or may not have a backup plan for that Senate seat, but I suspect they're in the "what the hell" stage of watching their Party implode, and concentrating more on collecting scalps than trying to run salvage operations.

It's schadenfreudelicious!

happily,
Bright

[Blue_true]

1. Pedophiles don't stop at one.

There are likely more recent females in Alabama who he has molested. Doubt any will have the courage to step forward, can't say I blame them, they will be savaged by the right.

[Va Lefty]

2. Quote from a Moore supporter...

"James Lomax, an Alabama Republican who has attended party functions supporting Moore, told HuffPost that if the allegations are true, Moore should be removed from the race.

“If Roy Moore has had a bosom in one hand and a Bible in the other, he needs to immediately remove himself from this race and go find the God that he is always peddling,” Lomax said. “No amount of pithy campaign slogans can cover up these sins if real. Alabama politics have reached the height of hypocrisy.”"

When your supporters are saying this you might be done

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-sexual-advances_us_5a04984ae4b03deac08bf667?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[TygrBright]

3. Just makes ya wonder what Lomax thinks of President Pussygrabber. n/t

[riversedge]

4. locker room talk

[Mr.Bill]

5. And how many Congressmen

have such a skeleton in their closet? More than a few, I would bet, and they are all scared shitless.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct

How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-congress-plays-by-different-rules-on-sexual-harassment-and-misconduct/2017/10/26/2b9a8412-b80c-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.c2fad8a6a2d8&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

If Whitehouse had chosen to pursue a complaint against the senator, she would have
discovered a process unlike other parts of the federal government or much of the private
sector. Her complaint likely would have been thrown out because interns have limited
harassment protections under the unique employment law that Congress applies to itself.

Congress makes its own rules about the handling of sexual complaints against members and
staff, passing laws exempting it from practices that apply to other employers.

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When settlements do occur, members do not pay them from their own office funds, a
requirement in other federal agencies. Instead, the confidential payments come out of a
special U.S. Treasury fund.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. As you say, "...may or may not have a backup plan..."

...but maybe they don't find one to be mission critical. Perhaps it's analogous to the "ABB" movement in the first decade of this millennium - they consider it very likely that no one could be worse.

It could even extend to losing the seat being better than a hand grenade with the pin pulled careening around the Senate and media.

[Kirk Lover]

8. Came out right quick with that statement too. Maybe they had it all ready to go.

[TygrBright]

9. Yep, they did.

And there's been a considerable lack of the usual "harumph-innocent-until-proven-guilty-how-do-we-know-this-isn't-an-oppo-dirty-trick" equivocation.

Why, anyone would think they just don't like ol' Roy much at all!

innocently,
Bright