On the other hand, one could argue that Republican candidates generally must be better able to handle these questions, because their Democrat opponents will never be asked "gotcha" questions.
-PJ
The questions would have failed to be “gotcha” if enough of We The People disdained it.
Learning to care like God cares — to outdo the liberals in holy token at their own game, put bluntly — is a sine qua non for We The People if America is to be blessed again.
Moore would be a passing aberration if the people have no, er, mooring.
The American legal picture has historically been one of “negative rights.” The right to be unmolested, left alone, etc. if one isn’t an offender.
Modern liberals try to add “positive rights” to that picture, but are doing a horrible job of it in many cases. With government put in place of God, they provide a hellish nannydom rather than a blessing.
I would wish that our modern liberals WOULD care for mothers enough that they would honor that over snuffing out their offspring, even inconvenient offspring. But that really needs faith in the Lord in order to fly. And that faith has been abandoned.
We need more than “let the babies alone” to be blessed as a country. We need a full fledged “turn the hearts of the parents to the children and the hearts of the children to the parents.”
Moore could pass judgment after judgment and it would go nowhere — he’d just get elbowed aside — without faith in the Lord first being there.
Politics being the art of the possible, maybe Strange is better in this circumstance of feeble faith. Better than, at best, casting pearls before swine.