WSJ: "Bob Menendez vs. Roy Moore"

Just a great, brief editorial. One of my fanatical NJ Democrat friends has a Menendez lawn sign. Very sad.

Bob Menendez vs. Roy Moore. He may be corrupt, but liberals rally to re-elect their man in New Jersey.

Remember the lectures from the Media Great and Good that Republicans and conservatives had to reject Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama last year to retain any sense of principle and self-respect? The sound you don’t hear this year is any comparable editorializing that Democrats and liberals should reject Bob Menendez in New Jersey.

Republican voters make mistakes, and Alabama conservatives did by nominating Judge Moore, who was credibly accused of courting minors when he was a young prosecutor. But most national conservatives urged his defeat because it was the right thing to do. Enough Republicans stayed home on Election Day to give the seat to Democrat Doug Jones in a narrowly divided Senate. Mr. Jones proceeded to vote with his party and oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Now look at New Jersey, where the left is either silent or is urging voters to re-elect Mr. Menendez despite his severe admonishment by the Senate for corruption. Apparently he’s their kind of corrupt—that is, he’s one more vote toward a Senate Democratic majority. “Choke it down, and vote for Menendez,” proclaimed an endorsement Sunday in the Newark Star-Ledger.

The crudeness of the prose reflects the crassness of the argument. “It’s a miracle that Menendez escaped criminal conviction, and an act of profound narcissism that he stayed in the race despite this baggage, putting a Democratic seat at risk while Donald Trump sits in the White House,” says the liberal paper. But it nonetheless urges voters to re-elect the sleazy Senator because Republican challenger Bob Hugin used to work for a biotech company that made a profit.

Mr. Hugin is trailing Mr. Menendez by only five or six points, and national Democrats are pouring millions into the state to save their man. Rank-and-file Democrats can show they’re a moral match for Alabama Republicans if they decide to vote for Mr. Hugin or stay home. Otherwise, spare us the lectures about the moral consequences of Donald Trump.

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