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PREACHER GIVES MOORE LAST RITES

Embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore may have been treading water, surviving, until 48 hours ago. Then not one but two millstones were hung around his neck. First but not worst was the late, reluctant, sort of endorsement by Trump. This amounted to extolling Moore's key, and only virtue: he isn't a Democrat.

No doubt Trump sat up all night twisting the Rubes cube and realized that even if Moore won, and was expelled, he would be able to vote for tax 'reform' before being expelled. Then Trump could withdraw support, join the 16 GOP senators who want to expel, which with the Senate Democrats, ought to give enough votes to expel. Then Sessions could return. etc. The only doubt was raised by VP Pence, who seemed pensive and asked if this might not be perceived as a 'double cross' of his fellow evangelist. Trump shrugged and said there no doubt be new charges by then and after all who was Trump (referring to himself) to defy the will of the Party?

This was all predictable.

Not so the preacher's defense of Moore: that he was 'attracted to young girls because of their purity'. This provoked the near impossible in the land of machine guns and evangelicals: the gag reflex. Moore may not be the only victim of this damning praise, It may also blow back on the source and the tendency of evangelicals to (a) run in packs, and (b) judge not on behavior because you are saved by faith alone.

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The response to the porn star threatening to sue is a pearl beyond price.

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Aye.That'd be the one.

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Yeah, yeah, I know ... unfair to gorillas.

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I wonder if the look on Lumpys face was a precious as the expression he had when the Bundy interview went from "American hero" to "Let me tell you about the negro". https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Someone needs to get on that and find out if there is an amazing angry letter in an attic somewhere.

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I love "...Fuck Right On Out Of Here," but I prefer another phrase, which I first saw via the webcomic Achewood: "Fuck Along Now."

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His forehead/ Is horrid.

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I like it! It's tart and folksy.

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In the hood, we call it a "fivehead".

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What are you angling for?

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I never get tired of that Cleveland Stadium letter.

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Now that was fun!

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