Roy Moore Does the Impossible

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Editorial
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454605/roy-moore-alabama-loses-republicans-lessons

Roy Moore did the nearly impossible and lost an Alabama Senate seat for the Republican party.

Only a historically flawed candidate could have managed it, and Roy Moore fit the bill. Twice bounced
from the Alabama supreme court, prone to kooky and noxious views, ignorant of the law and public
policy, Moore was already a shaky electoral bet even before allegations from multiple women emerged
that he had dated or forced his attentions on them when he was a grown man and they were teenagers.
Moore’s denials were tinny, contradictory, and unconvincing . . .

. . . There are several obvious lessons from Alabama: Character still matters; if he gets his way in
other primary battles, Steve Bannon could help throw away other winnable Senate races (and depose
Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader not by electing Republicans hostile to him, but by destroying
the GOP Senate majority altogether); Democratic constituents are, as we also saw in Virginia, highly
mobilized, and Republicans will need impressive candidates and campaigns to try to survive next year’s
mid-terms; Donald Trump would be well-served to listen to political advisors who aren’t, like Bannon,
hoping to tear down the GOP for fun and profit. . . .