If I lived in Alabama, I wouldn’t vote for Roy Moore. Even if I was a Republican, I wouldn’t vote for Roy Moore. I know this because I didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump last year, I wrote in Bernie Sanders. You should hear how mad that makes some people. I also voted for Ralph Nader over Gore or Bush in 2000. I’ve been called reckless, irresponsible, naïve and worse, but when it came down to it, I couldn’t pull the lever for someone I felt lacked the moral authority to hold the position I was voting for, so I voted for the person I thought would be the best choice for that position, even if they had no chance of winning. It’s called a protest vote, and it tells candidates I may not support your opponent, but you have failed to earn my vote.
Which brings us to Roy Moore, who is leading in polls for a special election to the US Senate despite the fact that he has been accused of being inappropriately sexual with young teenager girls when he was in his 30’s. A lot of people are pretending not to understand why, but the reasons his supporters are giving for supporting him aren’t that far off from the reasons I was told I should vote for Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders, and they mainly boil down to “the other guys are horrible, we need our guy.”
The reason I tell you this is so that when I say I agree with Jimmy Kimmel when he tells the people of Alabama they shouldn’t vote for Roy Moore, I’m not being partisan. I’m a person who won’t support a candidate from my own party if they’ve failed to earn my vote, and I don’t see anyone can think Roy Moore earned their vote.
Setting aside the attempted statutory rape for a second (but the man is running for the Senate, should we really set that aside?), he also got into a Twitter flame war with Jimmy Kimmel. Which is becoming of a future senator.
Sounds great Roy – let me know when you get some Christian values and I’ll be there!
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 30, 2017
OK Roy, but I'm leaving my daughters at home! P.S. – wear that cute little leather vest https://t.co/scweglm2Fg
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 30, 2017
Roy Moore just got roasted by the number 3 late-night host. That’s pretty embarrassing. And he wasn’t even done, he dedicated most his monologue to Moore, as seen in the clip he tweeted after the show.
If Roy Moore @MooreSenate actually wants to fight, meet me at the Gadsden Mall – 1001 Rainbow Drive. I'll be the one in the Girl Scout uniform… pic.twitter.com/mq053SiekV
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) December 1, 2017
And then he sent a comedian disguised as a Moore supporter down to Alabama to do a man on the street segment. I think the best part is when he gets a Moore supporter to give him a high-five after saying “When I was in seventh grade, my mom gave my teacher permission to date me and I turned out okay.”
This is the greatest: @JakeByrdFromTV crashed a Roy Moore rally in Alabama… @MooreSenate pic.twitter.com/3e1qqhOl04
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) December 1, 2017
It is amazing to me that the same people who a few months ago were losing their minds over a fake pedophile ring in the non-existent basement of a pizza parlor are now all going “so he touched a few thirteen year olds, what’s the big deal. We’re just electing him to be one of the most powerful people in the nation, not a schoolteacher.”