Roy Moore

I’m bothered that the press, at least nationally and in the northeast, doesn’t talk about the moral trade-offs they are essentially demanding from people in Alabama. They want people to vote against Moore, but the issue is that Moore’s opponent is very pro-choice, that he says there should be no limits on a woman’s right to an abortion. Alabama is perhaps the most anti-abortion state and huge numbers there believe strongly that abortion is government-sanctioned murder of innocent children, that it is unforgivable. They face a real dilemma: do they vote for a guy who has hit on teenage girls or for a guy who wants to murder children? It’s not simply that Alabamans will vote for a repugnant Republican over a decent Democrat but that this decent Democrat is also indecent to many Alabamans. The press barely touches this aspect.