Earlier this week, senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, declaring, much like President Trump did, that Moore — who has been accused of sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl — was preferable to the Democratic nominee.
Saturday on AM Joy, two conservative Republicans slammed both Conway and Trump, with GOP strategist Evan Siegfried saying support for Moore proves the “moral rot” in the Republican party:
“It’s been an us versus them narrative where we have said as Republicans, if you don’t like a certain piece of news even if it’s factual, you can ignore it because it’s fake news. News is based upon opinions rather than facts in this type of world. At the same time people are making a moral justification, saying it’s better to have Roy Moore, who will vote the way we want to vote, than having Doug Jones Jones in there.
“That shows the moral rot in the party. When we defend a man accused of such horrible, disgraceful behavior, it makes people have a second look and say why do we wanted to be a part of the Republican Party?”
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin then destroyed Conway with her remarks, telling host Joy Reid:
“There’s a special place in hell for mothers who defend accused child molesters, that would be Kellyanne Conway. I have no words to describe how atrocious and despicable this is.”
Rubin also had harsh words for the entire GOP:
“You can’t kind of pass them off as some fringe group when the president of the United States, everybody in the White House, the head of the RNC, the vice president, the party has already embraced someone who has been seriously accused of sexual assault. That’s the president, that’s Paul Ryan, that’s Mitch McConnell, that’s everybody. To make this distinction that somehow there are good Republicans on this issue and bad Republicans — he has infested and deformed an entire national political party. I think they’re rotten to the core now.”
The party of Donald Trump and Roy Moore is a disgrace to everything this country stands for. They’re nothing but perverts and traitors:
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