Attempting the Impossible – Trying to Defend Judge Roy Moore, GOP Senate Candidate

And Failing, Of Course

No conservative is too extreme for the WSJ opinion pages. No Republican should ever be condemned. Every candidate who espouses bigotry and hatred and racism, i.e., the GOP line is to be rehabilitated. And so we have an 'inside' look at Alabama's Roy Moore, you know, the man twice removed as head of the Alabama Supreme Court for gross violations of his duty.  A close associate of Judge Moore's reveals his good qualities.

What are his virtues? Well there is this.

In a case about contractual jury waivers, Chief traced civil juries to their Dutch and Frankish origins.

Wow, impressive, pretty useless and irrelevant, but still better than this.

He’d eat expired food and use what he called “Indian mud” (a k a “Black salve”) to heal ailments. He once put it on his leg, which he bared every morning so I could monitor its progress.

Don't remember that in the Constitution as a Senate qualification, what's wrong with you. But what about this.

A few weeks into the job, I was meeting with Chief to discuss a tort case regarding one party’s disputed “duty” toward another. Reasoning out loud, he passionately repeated the word “duty”—which of course sounds like “doody.” I succumbed to sophomoric snickering, the kind of laughter that only gets worse when you try to suppress it. A sterner judge would’ve reprimanded me. Chief simply shook his head, let me get my giggles out, and then proceeded as though nothing had happened.

Impressed yet? Maybe this will help.

But his critics don’t know the man who would buy his staff attorneys dinner if he noticed they were working late.

Yep, that's the best they can do. Pretty pathetic.