Electing Mr. (Doug) Jones, who is admired nationally for prosecuting racial crimes, would be a cultural watershed for Alabama voters and a sign that the Trump base will fracture with unexpected ease. Deep in their bones, Alabamians know that it Roy Moore goes to Washington, the wardrobe department at "Saturday Night Live" will surely accommodate them by finding a cowboy vest, a tiny pistol and a Girl Scout dress, and they're prepared to feel very put upon.
Howell Raines
I consider Mr. Trump's Republican Party to be a threat to conservatism, and I've concluded that the term evangelical – despite its rich history of proclaiming the "good news" of Christ to a broken world – has been so distorted that it is now undermining the Christian witness.
Assume that you are a person of the left and an atheist, and you decided to create a couple of people in a laboratory to discredit the Republican Party and white evangelical Christianity. You could hardly choose two more perfect man then Donald Trump and Roy Moore.
Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
So Franken, who is good on women's rights, resigns for wet kisses and random squeezes while Pres. Trump, who is awful on women's rights, skips right past his braggadocio on groping. Meanwhile the accused pervert and pedophile Roy Moore, who is a Neanderthal on women's rights, leads once more in the Senate race in Alabama, led by the president – who believes in nothing but winning – and the souless RNC.
Maureen Dowd
