Due process is a conservative principle

For four weeks, the Washington Establishment has insisted that Judge Roy Moore is a pedophile, and demanded that Alabamans elect Democrat Doug Jones.

They offered as proof a story in the Washington Post.

Don't make me laugh. The Washington Post has a history of Fake News.

And American history has a lengthy record of Fake Accusations from women who lie about rape. Tawana Brawley. The Duke lacrosse case. The University of Virginia fraternity case. Mattress Girl.

I gave Moore the benefit of the doubt, and the case has collapsed as holes in the original story swallowed it whole, and the second accuser admitted forging at least part of Moore's alleged autograph in her yearbook.

A character witness account of then-Captain Moore walking out of a club on Vietnam when he realized it was a whorehouse informed me that such a man would not molest young girls. If he had such an appetite, he would have slaked it in the outskirts of Danang.

But the intellectual curiosity of media people is abysmally small, and this applies to the ones who present themselves as conservative.

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, sadly emulates William F. Buckley Jr., whose main accomplishment was in purging conservatism of his rivals, rather than acting on his principles.

Buckley's tenure as founding editor -- 1955 to 1990 -- coincided with the rise of liberalism and the enactment of legalized abortion, the Great Society social programs, and the EPA's strangulation of industry in the name of ecology.

I do not blame Buckley for this misfortune, I merely wish he was as effective in pushing the conservative agenda as he was in purging it of people he deemed impure.

Now Lowry does not like Steve Bannon and is appalled that Judge Moore still breathes. Lowry wrote for Politico, "The Garbage Case for Roy Moore," in which Lowry makes a garbage case against Moore.

Some samples:

With Democrats throwing John Conyers and Al Franken overboard, Senate Republicans would be welcoming into their ranks a potent symbol of sexual malfeasance to be used against them in the 2018 midterms.

And:

Democrats, at least some of them, now want to jettison Bill Clinton and are saying that they were wrong to defend him during his scandals. For his part, Bannon wants to pick up the ethics of the party of Clinton and transfer them into the GOP.

And:

Privately, Bannon can’t be thrilled that he’s stuck with Moore, and he must know that Moore is a kook, even if he can’t admit it in public. Bannon likes to attack everyone else in the party for lacking courage, but in Alabama, he’s afraid to admit he backed a bum candidate and afraid to acknowledge the truth about Moore.

I am curious to know why Lowry thinks he knows what Bannon thinks "privately." Could it be that this is projection because Lowry says things in public that are contrary to his true beliefs?

But as we have seen since Trump began his quest for the presidency that the men who speak the most about principle in Washington and Manhattan are the men with the least principle.

I believe in due process, in the presumption of innocence, and in the wisdom of the American people.

While certainly, I do not always agree with the results of every election, I certainly have learned to trust them over the elitists in our nation's political capital and in its financial center.

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