Alabama to Elect First Nerd Governor

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy “Ten Simple Rules for Arguing Before My High Court” Moore is running for Alabama Governor. What are his qualifications? Besides a notable disregard for your mortal “laws?” On his website, he provides solid proof that he has the experience necessary to govern that great state:

The Etowah High Council demands the heads of the heretics!

Yeah, we’re real proud, Roy, as we’re sure your mother was too — but looking at this picture, we can’t help but think that guy on the left kicked your ass once the photographer left. So where’s Mark Wimpee these days? Alabama needs real leadership!

Photo Album [Judge Roy Moore for Governor]

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Remainders: Goodbye Cruel Blogosphere

• Daily Kos poster, LGF commenters form suicide call help line. How-to line, maybe. [Mr. Snitch]
• m4m, must be over 18, willing to travel, kill people. [NYPost]
• We are pleased to report that Benton M Wilmoth IV still makes the shittiest money in the White House. [Froomkin]
• Roy Moore hoping to make Alabama safe for 5000 pound religious sculpture. [WP, The Atlantic]
• The Iraq war is not going so well, according to both Jon Stewart and, uhm, Andy Rooney. [C&L, CBS]

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Daily Briefing: ‘From Hostility to Silence to Praise’

• Bush nominates Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court; seen as “a woman who broke barriers in the male-dominated Texas legal world but brings no judicial experience or constitutional background to her new assignment.” Bush: “I know her heart. I know her character.” [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ, WT]
• Miers likely to avoid partisan fight. Kristol: “It’s hard to explain why Harriet Miers is the right pick unless you’re trying to avoid a fight about someone who has expressed a conservative constitutional philosophy… it’s demoralizing for the president to pass over a host of publicly identified conservative constitutionalists.” [WP, NYT]
• DeLay is indicted for alleged money laundering; former majority leader says prosecutor “is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a ‘do-over’ since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate.” Punishment for money laundering can be life in prison. [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ, USAT]
• Many conservatives express skepticism, disappointment about Miers; responses range “from hostility to silence to praise.” [WP, LAT, NYT, WT, USAT, USAT]
• Nomination viewed as “more like a bunt than a bid for a home run,” writes Ron Brownstein. Bush “has no appetite, at a time when he and his party are besieged by problems, for an all-out ideological fight,” suspects Richard Stevenson. [LAT, NYT]
• Critics allege cronyism, the perception of which “is especially risky because it comes at a time when the White House has been accused of putting under-qualified political associates in top positions throughout the government.” [LAT, USAT]

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