{"id":8919,"date":"2018-09-20T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2018-09-20T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:08:57","slug":"an-unconvincing-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8919","title":{"rendered":"An unconvincing endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Moore, credibly accused of multiple instances of an unseemly interest in underage teenage girls, says it&#8217;s time for the Senate to quit messing around and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2018\/09\/roy_moore_calls_on_gop_to_take.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirm Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore called on Republicans to &#8220;take a stand&#8221; and support suggested U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following the sexual misconduct allegations levied against him, adding that he believes the Democrats are using Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser as a political pawn.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they need to take a stand. I think they need to do what their conscience dictates. They know what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Moore told One America News in an interview posted Wednesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s so obvious that these tactics are used just days before a very important event &#8230;but these come up right before an election or a confirmation, and I think the Republicans need to take a stand. I think a lot of them don&#8217;t. They don&#8217;t like criticism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go.  Roy Moore is a regular expert regarding charges of sexual misconduct, so if he says Kavanaugh is good to go I guess that settles it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Moore, credibly accused of multiple instances of an unseemly interest in underage teenage girls, says it&#8217;s time for the Senate to quit messing around and confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore called on Republicans to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8920,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}