The kook lacks a judicial temperment. He is more a governor type than a judge.
Moore would alienate other justices and almost certainly never be chosen to draft the majority decision.
How well does he persuade his colleagues: Terribly.
How well does he form coalitions: Terribly.
How likely is his view likely to be that of the 5th (and hence, controlling) opinion: Impossibly.
The point is not to explode liberals' heads, it is to effectively establish legal precedent.
"The kook lacks a judicial temperment. He is more a governor type than a judge."
You dare to call Roy Moore--a man with the backbone to fight the Marxists to the wall and to lose his job in the process-- a kook? It's time to ask who and what you call a hero. Leadership and courage don't always mean 'consensus building' -- sometimes it just comes down to saying RIGHT IS RIGHT and WRONG IS WRONG. We desperately need judges that abide by the Constitution and enforce the Ten Commandments. We don't need spineless enablers and criminal-coddlers and focus groups on the bench.
"Important principles may and must be inflexible." -- Abraham Lincoln
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits, who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight which knows not, victory nor defeat! -- Teddy Roosevelt
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
'There is no neutral ground in the universe--every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan' -- C.S. Lewis