{"id":1723,"date":"2004-05-07T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1723.html"},"modified":"2004-05-07T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T15:00:15","slug":"a-hint-of-future-plans-for-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-hint-of-future-plans-for-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"A hint of future plans for Moore?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I continue to watch Roy Moore’s every move, hoping (probably in vain) that the lunatic will actually launch a presidential run and siphon a few votes away from Bush on Election Day. With that in mind, there was a small but interesting story in the Alabama AP yesterday.<\/p>\n

You’d think that Moore’s ultra-conservative ideology would lead him to have certain preferences in this year’s presidential race. At a minimum, you’d suspect he isn’t a John Kerry fan.<\/p>\n

But when asked which candidate he’s planning to support, Moore hedged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he’s not ready to pick between President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry.<\/p>\n

Moore told The Associated Press Wednesday he has no immediate plans to endorse either major party candidate in the November election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s impossible, of course, to read Moore’s mind (and what a mind it is) and understand his motivations. Maybe he’s not endorsing Bush because he doesn’t want to endorse a future presidential rival. Or perhaps Moore is waiting to see if he can extract some more promises from desperate Republicans who fear the consequences of a Moore campaign. With someone who is this far out of touch with reality, it’s really hard to say.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it keeps hope alive. Run, Roy, run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to watch Roy Moore’s every move, hoping (probably in vain) that the lunatic will actually launch a presidential run and siphon a few votes away from Bush on Election Day. With that in mind, there was a small but interesting story in the Alabama AP yesterday. You’d think that Moore’s ultra-conservative ideology would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}