Sen. Jeff Flake appeared to endorse Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones, in a tweet he posted Sunday.
“After what we know, for Republicans to support Roy Moore over Doug Jones is political tribalism at its worst,” he wrote, referencing the allegations of child molestation lodged against Moore. “We shouldn’t succumb to it.”
After what we know, for Republicans to support Roy Moore over Doug Jones is political tribalism at its worst. We shouldn’t succumb to it
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 26, 2017
To put his stupidity in perspective, consider that even someone at RedState — a blog recently known for its frequent verbal castrations of Moore — opined that what Flake wrote is “a load of crap.”
While RedState’s Joe Cunningham certainly didn’t endorse Moore, he made it clear that trying to justify a vote for Jones is pretty darn shady.
“There are going to be plenty of people who will vote for Moore because he isn’t in favor of murdering babies,” Cunningham wrote. “That’s not tribalism, that’s rationalizing.”
His beef with Jones lies with the Democrat candidate’s opposition to any restrictions on abortion, as documented by National Review:
No reasonable person could consider Jones anything other than a zealot in this area. Indeed, in September, Jones told MSNBC host Chuck Todd that he has always refused to support a single restriction on abortion and that he will continue to do so if elected to the Senate. …
“I’m not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman’s right and her freedom to choose. That’s just the position that I’ve had for many years, it’s the position I continue to have.”
While Jones later tried to walk back this statement by claiming he supports current law, which restricts late-term abortions “except in the case of medical necessity,” there’s a big problem with this line of thinking.
“(T)he 1973 Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton defined ‘medically necessary’ in extremely expansive terms, to mean any instance in which a mother’s ‘physical, psychological, emotional, even familial health’ was supposedly at risk,” noted National Review.
“This absurdly broad rationale provides a gaping loophole, allowing for nearly unlimited late-term abortion rights, regardless of state restrictions. Doug Jones no doubt knows this, even if Alabama voters do not.”
Here’s the point: If conservatives don’t want to support Moore because of the sexual allegations lodged against him, fine. But this sure as hell doesn’t mean conservatives should turn around and support Moore’s Democrat opponent, because that’s just traitorous, man.
(First reported by the DownTrend) https://downtrend.com/vsaxena/jeff-flake-endorses-democrat (November 27, 2017)
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