Selwyn Duke
The real scandal in the Alabama senate race
By Selwyn Duke
Scandals take many forms. If you could be transported back to antebellum times, for example, would you not find the desire to perpetuate the legal institution of slavery scandalous? This brings us to the Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat, a contest now front-and-center with the recent sex allegations made against GOP hopeful Judge Roy Moore. Moore denies the charges, but there are certain things that can't be denied.
Democrat Doug Jones, Moore's opponent, has some noteworthy positions. He's pro-prenatal infanticide. It's not a stance he took 40 years ago but has since abandoned, and it doesn't mean he's accused of once having kissed an underage girl.
It means he believes in the murder of underage girls – and boys. That's beyond scandalous.
Jones supports de facto amnesty, meaning, he wouldn't even require illegal aliens to return to their home countries before being granted citizenship. This undermines the rule of law and exemplifies the treasonous attitude that subordinates the good of one's countrymen to the good of invading foreigners – and all because they'll vote Democrat after being naturalized. Selling out your culture for political power is scandal on steroids.
Jones supports the regulation of carbon dioxide, otherwise known as plant food, because he pushes the dubious global-warming...climate-change, uh, "global climate disruption" agenda. Since it's average Americans who'll pay these regulations' costs, this serves to further impoverish the struggling. That's scandalous.
Jones advocates the unscientific, socially disastrous "transgender" agenda. First, he said President Trump was "wrong, wrong, wrong" to return to the longtime status quo of banning so-called "transgender" people from the military; this means Jones supports social experimentation in the armed forces.
Second, he also supports allowing boys masquerading as girls to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. In fact, he said that Trump's rescinding of Barack Obama's school guidance to that effect was "wrong, wrong, wrong!" (Because, you see, when you say it that way, it makes the other guy three times as wrong.) By the way, below is a video of Jones expressing these sentiments just last month.
Oh, yeah – the above is scandalous, too.
In addition, Jones advocates using taxpayer money to fund fanciful, economically unviable energy schemes such as solar, wind, and thermal energy. Apparently, he'd like to repeat Obama's "green energy" boondoggles (e.g., Solyndra), which only turned out green in that they wasted 2.2 billion worth of Americans' greenbacks.
But Jones loves spending other people's money. While he doesn't believe in cutting your taxes to spur economic growth, he thinks having government give away your tax money will do so.
Lastly, despite the fact that ObamaCare is unconstitutional, has caused millions of Americans' healthcare premiums to rise, and created co-ops that have collapsed right and left, Jones opposes rescinding the program. Well, no matter. He'll have great healthcare through the Senate if he wins December 12.
As for the last four positions, some would say calling them scandalous is a stretch, so you can apply your own adjective (stupid comes to mind). And whatever you might prefer for characterizing all his positions, "old" and "repudiated" don't fit. "Current" sure does, though.
So killing babies, killing the rule of law, killing with regulations, killing tradition and kids' right to privacy, killing our pocketbooks, killing the economy, and killing healthcare (sounds like an alternate-universe Bill O'Reilly book series). In the scandal department, Roy Moore has a long way to go to have a chance of keeping up with the Joneses.
Simply put, Doug Jones is the most scandalous of creatures: a leftist radical who is "wrong, wrong, wrong" on the issues. It's a wonder he isn't seeking office in California, New York, Massachusetts, or North Korea. Running someone whose positions are so wholly contrary to Alabaman culture is a slap in the face to the state. Is this a political version of Punk'd?
If I lived in Alabama, on December 12 I'd vote for Judge Roy Moore while holding my nose – but only because the stench from Doug Jones' name would be rising right from the ballot.
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© Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2017
Scandals take many forms. If you could be transported back to antebellum times, for example, would you not find the desire to perpetuate the legal institution of slavery scandalous? This brings us to the Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat, a contest now front-and-center with the recent sex allegations made against GOP hopeful Judge Roy Moore. Moore denies the charges, but there are certain things that can't be denied.
Democrat Doug Jones, Moore's opponent, has some noteworthy positions. He's pro-prenatal infanticide. It's not a stance he took 40 years ago but has since abandoned, and it doesn't mean he's accused of once having kissed an underage girl.
It means he believes in the murder of underage girls – and boys. That's beyond scandalous.
Jones supports de facto amnesty, meaning, he wouldn't even require illegal aliens to return to their home countries before being granted citizenship. This undermines the rule of law and exemplifies the treasonous attitude that subordinates the good of one's countrymen to the good of invading foreigners – and all because they'll vote Democrat after being naturalized. Selling out your culture for political power is scandal on steroids.
Jones supports the regulation of carbon dioxide, otherwise known as plant food, because he pushes the dubious global-warming...climate-change, uh, "global climate disruption" agenda. Since it's average Americans who'll pay these regulations' costs, this serves to further impoverish the struggling. That's scandalous.
Jones advocates the unscientific, socially disastrous "transgender" agenda. First, he said President Trump was "wrong, wrong, wrong" to return to the longtime status quo of banning so-called "transgender" people from the military; this means Jones supports social experimentation in the armed forces.
Second, he also supports allowing boys masquerading as girls to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. In fact, he said that Trump's rescinding of Barack Obama's school guidance to that effect was "wrong, wrong, wrong!" (Because, you see, when you say it that way, it makes the other guy three times as wrong.) By the way, below is a video of Jones expressing these sentiments just last month.
Oh, yeah – the above is scandalous, too.
In addition, Jones advocates using taxpayer money to fund fanciful, economically unviable energy schemes such as solar, wind, and thermal energy. Apparently, he'd like to repeat Obama's "green energy" boondoggles (e.g., Solyndra), which only turned out green in that they wasted 2.2 billion worth of Americans' greenbacks.
But Jones loves spending other people's money. While he doesn't believe in cutting your taxes to spur economic growth, he thinks having government give away your tax money will do so.
Lastly, despite the fact that ObamaCare is unconstitutional, has caused millions of Americans' healthcare premiums to rise, and created co-ops that have collapsed right and left, Jones opposes rescinding the program. Well, no matter. He'll have great healthcare through the Senate if he wins December 12.
As for the last four positions, some would say calling them scandalous is a stretch, so you can apply your own adjective (stupid comes to mind). And whatever you might prefer for characterizing all his positions, "old" and "repudiated" don't fit. "Current" sure does, though.
So killing babies, killing the rule of law, killing with regulations, killing tradition and kids' right to privacy, killing our pocketbooks, killing the economy, and killing healthcare (sounds like an alternate-universe Bill O'Reilly book series). In the scandal department, Roy Moore has a long way to go to have a chance of keeping up with the Joneses.
Simply put, Doug Jones is the most scandalous of creatures: a leftist radical who is "wrong, wrong, wrong" on the issues. It's a wonder he isn't seeking office in California, New York, Massachusetts, or North Korea. Running someone whose positions are so wholly contrary to Alabaman culture is a slap in the face to the state. Is this a political version of Punk'd?
If I lived in Alabama, on December 12 I'd vote for Judge Roy Moore while holding my nose – but only because the stench from Doug Jones' name would be rising right from the ballot.
Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Twitter or log on to SelwynDuke.com
© Selwyn Duke
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