Trump just endorsed a lawless bigot in Alabama. Here’s how Democrats will run against him

Washington Post ^ | September 27, 2017 | By Greg Sargent

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Roy Moore, the new GOP nominee for Senate in Alabama, defied a court order directing him to remove a tablet bearing the Ten Commandments from a state court building. He has said homosexuality is a “crime against nature” that defies the laws “of nature’s God” upon which (he claims) our nation is based, meaning homosexuality is illegal.

President Trump enthusiastically endorsed Roy Moore this morning, describing him as a “great guy” who will help to realize Trump’s goal of making America great.

There is a Democratic candidate who is running against Moore in the Dec. 12 special election. He is Doug Jones. Will national Democrats seriously contest the race?

I spoke this morning with Jones’s senior strategist and media consultant, Joe Trippi. He said the Jones campaign would frame the coming contest as one “about integrity and character.”

“People in Alabama want a senator they can take pride in,” Trippi told me. “They don’t want to be embarrassed by Roy Moore.”

Moore’s lawlessness, anti-gay fanaticism and support for a profoundly regressive flat tax call for Democrats to respond aggressively and show where they stand as a party. Plus, special elections are quirky, and a former U.S. attorney running against Moore has at least the chance of winning over some center-right voters who are uncomfortable with Moore’s various crusades.

[Fresh Wind]

[mykroar]

Not yet. Give is a month or two.

[joma89]

Once the left starts calling you names (i.e. bigot) you know you got to them and they really do consider you a threat to their quest for complete tyranny over everyone.

Here is too the next Senator of the great state of Alabama.

JoMa

[Digger]

BTW Gregg, ya got a $1000 to bet who’s gonna win. If not then just STFU.

[Pollster1]

and some violent attacks on Alabamians

Antifa and BLM against good old boys? That should be fun if the Thug Party goes for it.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Democrat Lawless Bigot

[Ms Mable]

Trump just endorsed a lawless bigot in Alabama. ___________________________________________ Onward Christian Solders "We sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers" indeed, and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals ... it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation." — Winston Churchill

[loveliberty2]

One of the greatest treatises on Natural Law comes from Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Blackstone’s Commentaries was required reading for law students in Great Britain and the United States for over a century.

Natural Law – Commentaries on the Laws
MEANING OF LAW
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we way, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

LAW AS ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE
Thus when the Supreme Being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, He impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be. When He put the matter into motion, He established certain laws of motion, to which all movable bodies must conform. And, to descend from the greatest operations to the smallest, when a workman forms a clock, or other piece of mechanism, he establishes at his own pleasure certain arbitrary laws for its direction; as that the hand shall describe a given space in a given time; to which law as long as the work conforms, so long it continues in perfection, and answers the end of its formation. If we further advance, from mere inactive matter to vegetable and animal life, we shall find them still invariable. The whole progress of plants, from the seed to the root, and from thence to the seed again; the method of animal nutrition, digestion, secretion and all the branches of vital economy; - are not left to chance, or the will of the creature itself, but are performed in a wondrous involuntary manner, and guided by unerring rules laid down by the great Creator.

LAW AS A RULE OF HUMAN ACTION
This, then, is the general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being; and, in those creatures that have neither the power to think, nor to will, such laws must be invariably obeyed, so long as the creature itself subsists, for its existence depends on the obedience. But laws, in their more confined sense, and in which it is our present business to consider them, denote the rules, not of action in general, but of human action or conduct: that is, the precepts by which man, the noblest of all sublunary beings, a creature endowed with both reason and free will, is commanded to make use of those faculties in the general regulation of his behavior. Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. A being independent of any other, has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself; but a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct; not indeed in every particular, but in all those points wherein his dependence consists. This principle, therefore, has more or less extent and effect, in proportion as the superiority of the one and the dependence of the other is greater or less, absolute or limited. And consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

LAW OF NATURE
This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. For as God, when He created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion; so, when he created man, and endued him with free will to conduct himself in all parts of life, He laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that free will is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws.

Considering the Creator only a Being of infinite power, He was able unquestionably to have prescribed whatever laws He pleased to His creature, man, however unjust or severe. But as He is also a Being of infinite wisdom, He has laid down only such laws as were founded in those relations of justice, that existed in the nature of things antecedent to any positive precept. These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator Himself in all his dispensations conforms; and which He has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions. Such, among others, are these principles: that we should live honestly, should hurt nobody, and should render to everyone his due; to which three general precepts Justinian has reduced the whole doctrine of law. But if the discovery of these first principles of the law of nature depended only upon the due exertion of right reason, and could not otherwise be obtained than by a chain of metaphysical disquisitions, mankind would have wanted some inducement to have quickened their inquiries, and the greater part of the world would have rested content in mental indolence, and ignorance its inseparable companion. As, therefore, the Creator is a Being, not only of infinite power, and wisdom, but also of infinite goodness, He has been pleased so to contrive the constitution and frame of humanity, that we should want no other prompter than to inquire after and pursue the rule of right, but only our own self-love, that universal principle of action. For he has so intimately connected, so inseparably interwoven the laws of eternal justice with the happiness of each individual, that the latter cannot be attained but by observing the former; and, if the former be punctually obeyed, it cannot but induce the latter. In consequence of which mutual connection of justice and human felicity, He has not perplexed the law of nature with a multitude of abstracted rules and precepts, referring merely to the fitness or unfitness of things, as some have vainly surmised; but has graciously reduced the rule of obedience to this one paternal precept, 'that man should pursue his own true and substantial happiness.' This is the foundation of what we call ethics, or natural law. For the several articles into which it is branched in our systems, amount to no more than demonstrating, that his or that action tends to man's real happiness, and therefore very justly concluding that the performance of it is a part of the law of nature; or, on the other hand, that this or that action is destructive to man's real happiness, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it.

This law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God Himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. But in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary to have recourse to human reason; whose office it is to discover, as was before observed, what the law of nature directs in every circumstance of life; by considering, what method will tend most effectually to our own substantial happiness. And if our reason were always, as in our first ancestor before his transgression, clear and perfect, unruffled by passions, unclouded by prejudice, unimpaired by disease or intemperance, the task would be pleasant and easy; we should need no other guide but this. But every man now finds the contrary in his own experience; that his reason is corrupt, and his understanding full of ignorance and error.

[mowowie]

“Roy Moore, the new GOP nominee for Senate in Alabama, defied a court order directing him to remove a tablet bearing the Ten Commandments from a state court building. He has said homosexuality is a “crime against nature” that defies the laws “of nature’s God” upon which (he claims) our nation is based, meaning homosexuality is illegal.”

And....

[VanDeKoik]

It’s like the GOP spending tons of money on a Vermont Senate race.

[Aevery_Freeman]

>>"Lawless Bigot"!?

Woo Hoo! The Slander Lamp is lit. Go for it FReepers!

(Yes, I know it's really libel)

[SunkenCiv]

More DNC talking point garbage from the Partisan Media Shills (PMS) at the Washington ComPost/Jeff Bezos. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

[Mariner]

I’ll take big heat for this, but I believe the good Judge will have the race of his life in December.

And he is a good man.

I just don’t think his political philosophy is suited for Federal office.

And he has provided the opposition with a treasure trove of ads against him, stuff a Republican candidate could never use.

[Flick Lives]

WaPo couldn’t find Alabama on a map.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yes, please, Democrat Party... Please spend MILLIONS of dollars in Alabama.

Like you did in Atlanta for Jon Ossoff.

Please.

[littleharbour]

DC is shaken to its core by the prospect of an actual bitter clinging Deplorable inside the most exclusive old boys club in the world : the US Senate. I hope Moore holds their feet to the hire and on his first day calls for McConnell to step down as Majority Leader. McConnell’s best defence is that he’s totally inept. Because if he’s not inept, then all his failures are a pre-meditated attack on the American people.

[topher]

If WaPo is attacking, this is a good thing. Alabamans do not listen to INSIDE-BELT-WAY Horse Manure as WaPo spews.

Sounds like this attack will guarantee Judge Roy Moore will be the next Senator from Alabama...

[TBP]

McConnell’s PAC endorsed Judge Moore today, as well.

[publius911]

Moore’s lawlessness, anti-gay fanaticism and support for a profoundly regressive flat tax call for Democrats to respond aggressively and show where they stand as a party.

Deplorable and proud!

[petitfour]

Moore’s lawlessness? Funny. I never saw that Ten Commandments monument hurt anybody. Silly liberals.