As always, we start with Roy Moore

First of all, I still do not know.  My take is that there’s a stack of evidence that Roy Moore liked to date much younger women.  Don’t most men?  After beginning their relationship when she was 19, Humphrey Bogart married Lauren Bacall when she was 21 and he was 46 – that’s what…Mrs. Ralf don’t fail me now - lemmesee 6 from 1 is…no wait…1 from 6 is 5…2 from 4 is 2…a 25 year difference.

Coming from a small town, there were always the guys – 19-20 year old drop outs usually – picking up their Jr High girlfriend in their truck after school.  Would I vote for any of them for the US senate?  No.  Just sayin’.

Then there’s the idea that back in olden days younger women dated older men because older men were established and could afford to marry.  Does 1977 qualify as the olden days?  Depends.  For Lex no.  For Lex Jr, definitely. 

Now that PDJT has returned from his Asia trip, he needs to make Roy Moore job #1.  He needs to send VP Pence to sit down with AG Sessions.  Pence needs to convince Sessions to run for his old seat as write-in candidate.  For obvious reasons, PDJT can’t make the appeal to Sessions.

Barring Sessions stepping in to save the day, my advice to AL is: Irritate the establishment.  Elect Moore. My sense is that the more the establishment tries to kill Moore off the more AL digs in.  Good.  Tell ‘em to go to hell*.

NOTE: Telling a Godless lefty lib to go to hell should not offend them.  They do not believe in hell, so telling them to go there should be no more offensive than telling them to go Shangri-La. 

All the way back to the days when I lived there, I’ve always thought Roy Moore was an odd duck.  He’s always struck me as a rebel creating his own cause. 

For example, Moore for some reason thought it necessary to put a behemoth granite block* with the 10 Commandments etched on it into his courthouse.  Why?  Well so he could refuse to remove it when the inevitable order came down to so.

Note to note: I actually saw the 10 Commandments monument in the courthouse when I lived in Montgomery, Alabama.  It was nice.  Somehow, I was not offended in the slightest.

 

Instead of creating his own controversy that he could publically rail against, Moore might have considered using actual court cases to advance the idea of religious free speech.  He didn’t.  He created a public spectacle and put himself at the center of it.  To be honest, at the time, I actually thought, “Heck yeah.  Tell the Godless bastards to go to hell (or Shangri-La) judge!”

Taxes
I think the zero tax bracket is BS.  The only thing more offensive than a zero tax bracket is throwing nearly 50% of the people into it.  Everyone needs to have skin in the game.  It can be 1% or even .5%, but everyone needs to pay something.  Once everyone is paying something it makes it that much harder for Dopes to ever raise taxes, because Republicans can beat them with their own stick – taxing the poor.