THINGS CAN GET EVEN CRAZIER-- LOOK WHICH REPUBLICAN MANIAC IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA

It may look like the vile little corporate world around BushCo is crumbling. But let me tell you, my friends, these psychos are not going down without a fight. And today we get the news that someone who almost makes DeLay and Cheney look moderate is running for governor of Alabama. Remember Roy Moore, the delusional religionist fanatic who shares an identical view of governing with Osama bin Laden: theocracy. Moore is going up against fellow Republican incumbent Governor Bob Riley, a conservative pragmatist. There are already 2 Democrats in the race, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley and former Gov. Don Siegelman.

In 2000, Alabama voters elected Moore as chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and the next summer he had a 5,300-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the rotunda of the state judicial building. A federal judge ordered Moore to remove it as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion, but Moore refused, making him a hero of the extreme Christian Right. The other judges had the monument moved to a storage site and in November 2003, a state judicial court kicked Moore out of office for defying the federal court. Moore famously took appeals all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost at every level.

Since then, he has traveled the BuyBull Belt, speaking at snake-handler type "churches" and to neo-Nazi and KKK-ish groups, promoting his primitivist book about the controversy, SO HELP ME GOD.
If elected he promised that he "will defend the right of every citizen of this state — including judges, coaches, teachers, city, county and state officials — to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty and government." And when anyone mentions that he's a one-issue candidate, he starts babbling his campaign theme: "Return Alabama to the people." I guess that sounds absolutely statesmanlike compared to what people have come to expect from the nut case Moore, who has suggested that the death penalty might be appropriate for homosexuals. Apparently he's got some unresolved issues from his infancy: "Homosexuality is an act  so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The State carries the power of the sword, that is, the power to prohibit conduct with physical penalties, such as confinement and even execution." In most places people like Roy Moore are treated for mental illness. In the Republican heartland they run for governor. So even if it is as clear to you that Moore is a fringe crackpot and lunatic, please remember that we are, afterall, talking about a REPUBLICAN PRIMARY in the great state of ALABAMA.