Roy Moore A Hypocrite???

[taleast]

As expected Roy Moore had plentyto say about the Supreme Court's recent 10-commandment ruling. According to the Advertiser:

Moore said he feels the Supreme Court ignored the question of whether or not government can acknowledge God, a key argument in the former chief justice's long legal fight to keep the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama courts building.

"Clearly, history, logic, and law dictate that we can. This court is simply ignoring the words of the First Amendment and ruling by their own feelings," Moore said in a statement Monday. "When you deny God, as this court is doing, you slowly lose your rights to life, liberty and property."

What is so funny, is that Moore is going to run on the Republican ticket (THANK GOD) and 7 of the 9 justices that he is ranting and raving against were appointed by Republicans. Isn't this somewhat hypocritical? If he hates Republicans so bad why doesn’t he run as an independent?

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Alabama-Democrat

[Warpy]

1. I think he was just barely talked out of founding his own

party for fundy extremists in 2004. I sincerely think that will be the likeliest next step for fundies, Dominionists, Christian Reconstructionists, and other far right dingbats who think they have all the answers.

After all, the GOP isn't exactly dancing to their tune, even though Idiot got their preachers taxpayer money to soften the blow.

[Jim Lane]

2. They already have their own party

In 2004 there was press speculation that Moore might be the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party. (It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers Party but changed its name.) I've read that, in late 2003, party leaders offered the nomination to Moore, but he didn't want it.

It's too bad that so many progressives vote for Nader, while the conservatives are following the more effective strategy of working within a major party. In 2004, the Constitution Party ticket drew only about a third as many votes as Nader did.

[Frances]

3. Good point

I wish that progressives would realize that they could have more influence if they worked to change the Democratic party from inside the party.