He’ll never give up, never give inby digby
Roy Moore is a real ass. If they can find a way to whittle down the vote to .5 percent and get a recount they will do it. 15,000 votes aren’t easy to disappear but I’m sure they’re going to try. They’ll certainly delegitimize the vote by saying the margin was all the result of voter fraud. But you knew that:
A day after losing the Senate race in Alabama to Democrat Doug Jones, Roy Moore has issued a new statement refusing to concede the election until completion of the final count. But it wasn’t your typical post-election statement.
It was a four-minute fire-and-brimstone video about abortion, same-sex marriage, school prayer, sodomy and “the right of a man to claim to be a woman and vice versa.”
“We are indeed in a struggle to preserve our republic, our civilization and our religion and to set free a suffering humanity,” Moore said. “Today, we no longer recognize the universal truth that God is the author of our life and liberty. Abortion, sodomy and materialism have taken the place of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
In the video issued by the campaign Wednesday evening, Moore said his campaign is still waiting for the official vote count from Alabama officials. He did not say he would necessarily seek a recount, for which his campaign would have to pay unless the margin turned out to be within half a percentage point. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has called it “highly unlikely” that Jones would not be certified as the winner.
The silver lining in all of this is that we never have to pay even the slightest attention to conservative evangelicals again. Any claim they had to morality or decency has been blown to smithereens by their ecstatic support for Trump and Moore. They are obviously phonies who don’t care about any of the stuff they say they care about.
Update: Apparently, the SOS of Alabama says that Moore can have a recount no matter what if he pays for it. Sigh…
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