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Robinson: Is the tribe more important than morality in Alabama?
The Columbian ^ | November 24, 2017 | by Eugene Robinson

Posted on 11/25/2017 7:27:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Can the descent of American political culture into ugly tribalism be halted? Alabama voters will give their answer when they decide whether to send Roy Moore to the U.S. Senate.

Moore, 70, has built a long, disgraceful career out of smarmy religiosity spiked with tribal grievance. Having posed for years as the most pious of Christians, he now stands accused by nine women of un-Christian behavior: They claim convincingly that Moore, when he was in his 30s, aggressively pursued romantic or sexual relationships, including with teens barely half his age.

Successful demagogues can use tribal enmities to blind their followers to such moral and logical contradictions.

Moore uses his angry Christianity as a tool of self-aggrandizement. He uses the trust and passion of the Alabamians he defrauds to sully the reputations of women who bravely testify to his allegedly vile and creepy behavior.

Alabama’s three major newspapers ran rare front-page editorials Sunday imploring voters not to send this unworthy man to Washington. It is a sad sign of the times that I am not sure whether that hurt Moore’s prospects or helped them. The “mainstream media” is an enemy whose disapproval Moore cultivates to make his supporters love him more.

Moore is not invincible. He can be defeated — but only if Alabamians decide that honor, integrity and morality are more important than tribe.

(Excerpt) Read more at columbian.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: alabama; barf; douchejones; dougjones; eugenerobinson; fakenews; gropesplaining; journalism; liberalpropaganda; lucille; media; negan; partisanmediashills; roymoore
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To: OldMissileer

Great post.


101 posted on 11/25/2017 11:14:46 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: dljordan

I live in this world, yes. I don’t consider myself part of a “tribe”. That’s 3rd worldish, mud hut thinking.


102 posted on 11/25/2017 11:15:28 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is anything more immoral than killing babies in the womb?


103 posted on 11/25/2017 11:30:24 AM PST by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
he now stands accused

And convicted based upon the cumulative weight of the seriousness of the charges and the fake but accurate documentary evidence.

104 posted on 11/25/2017 11:34:20 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Leep

Now that’s just plain funny


105 posted on 11/25/2017 11:44:27 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I read one of those Whitmire articles. You couldn’t tell he was pant-less.


106 posted on 11/25/2017 12:16:27 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Thanks. The picture screams “flaming poofter” to me. Perhaps just an exceptionally bad picture.


107 posted on 11/25/2017 12:50:30 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Lent
Tribal behaviour? As in black or ‘African-American’ tribalism?

Nope, as in Clinton tribalism. Robinson may be implying that something ethnic is involved, but it's all ideology. Ask Clarence Thomas about that.

108 posted on 11/25/2017 12:54:40 PM PST by x
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To: NorthMountain

I do think he’s straight, but his wife seems to wear the pants.


109 posted on 11/25/2017 1:10:49 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Oh looky, another Partisan Media Shill, regurgitating the DNC talking points. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

110 posted on 11/25/2017 1:14:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Eugene Robinson is a f***ing idiot who is always wrong. I've read him for years, and i've never seen a single column he wrote that I agree with.

If you see the name "Eugene Robinson", don't even bother reading it. It's always crap.

111 posted on 11/25/2017 1:23:17 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrat Party has no morality. Does not compute.


112 posted on 11/25/2017 1:24:27 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Jim McGreevey ...

not sayin’ .... jus’ sayin’ ...


113 posted on 11/25/2017 1:34:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

That cracked me up.

I’ve met him and know girls who knew him in college. He was known to be randy with the ladies.

But he certainly wears his extreme leftism as a badge of honor.


114 posted on 11/25/2017 1:46:16 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Alabama Media Group, publisher of all three newspapers, is owned by Advance Publications of Staten Island. They have a significant stake in Discover and Charter Communications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications


115 posted on 11/25/2017 2:29:51 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Conservatives want PROOF of wrongdoing, not new and unproven claims of 40 year old unproven claims abuses . And evidence of criminality. And, perhaps, if the action is immoral but not illegal, some notion that the individual is impenitent.
And perhaps it would help if the claimed 40-yo abuses were unambiguously inherently immoral rather than legal, if tacky, under substantively similar circumstances. A speeding ticket is inherently in that category, for example, if you’re not talking a ten mph, and at least 20%, margin of violation.

116 posted on 11/25/2017 2:55:42 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It does not occur to anyone else that for almost 40 years nothing was said until it became apparent that Roy Moore was probably going to win the election to the U.S. Senate. Then suddenly, these accusations all come out of nowhere. Fishy, I would say!


117 posted on 11/25/2017 4:42:56 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Moore, 70, has built a long, disgraceful career out of smarmy religiosity spiked with tribal grievance.

I know unbiased reporting when I see it.

118 posted on 11/25/2017 5:51:00 PM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: Bryanw92

Agreed. Without the truth and consequences from God then all of it is evil.


119 posted on 11/25/2017 7:32:29 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Being for the brutal slaughter of millions and millions of babies trumps just about any and everything else in the realm of morality. The democrats just don’t get it. They can’t. They are utterly morally bankrupted.


120 posted on 11/25/2017 7:46:40 PM PST by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus?)
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