A bunch of people gave 2020 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore exactly what he wanted on Saturday when they protested his speech at the Shoals Republican Club in Tuscumbia.
The club had invited Roy Moore to speak, as they previously had every other Senate candidate, and so a bunch of losers with nothing better to do with their Saturday morning stood outside in December and yelled at him.
And yes, of course, we are going to cover it.
The protesters chanted “No more Roy Moore” and “Go to hell, Roy Moore.” All things that I’m sure completely devastated the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and failed Senate candidate.
The problem with these protesters is that they give Roy Moore exactly what he wants: a chance to play the victim and show how everybody hates him because of what he stands for.
Moore’s entire candidacy in this election cycle has been that everybody is out to get him.
Roy Moore’s schtick is as follows:
- I was screwed over when I stood up for the Ten Commandments and lost my job.
- I was screwed over when I fought gay marriage and lost my job.
- I was screwed over in 2017 by questionable allegations (and a separate shadowy Democrat disinformation campaign).
He’s right about the last one. Those allegations don’t make it to print if Moore was a Democrat.
The reality is that he’s disliked because he failed to do his job and then lost a Senate seat to a liberal Democrat in ruby-red Alabama.
But most people are smart enough to see through this stuff and realize this is the end of Roy Moore’s public life and are content to let him fade away.
So, why do people continue to give him the ability to play the victim?
Right now, Roy Moore is polling in the low teens. He’s not really relevant, so why make it seem like he is?
Giving him the opportunity to claim that he won’t back down from a fight lets him off the hook. It takes a completely unlikable candidate and makes him seem like a hero for standing up to the outrage mobs, cancel culture and liberal Democrats who are condemning him to hell for standing up for God.
If people want Roy Moore to go away, the best thing to do is to treat him like he’s irrelevant, because that’s exactly what he is.
Moore has no money and is recycling old campaign ads. His support keeps dwindling by the day as the obituaries do their thing.
Moore is the fourth man in a three-man Senate race.
Let Roy Moore talk to a crowd that won’t vote for him, let him head back to Gadsden afterward, and, eventually, the age of dealing with this grift will be over.
Until then, these people need to find anything else to do on a Saturday morning.
Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN
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