Thursday, November 9, 2017

Too Clever by Half



The British have a saying which is not often repeated in the American South: “He is too clever by half.” It means that a person is, as Merriam-Webster explains it, “annoyingly proud of one's intelligence or skill and in danger of overreaching oneself.” Right now, the whole of Judge Roy Moore’s list of opponents is engaging in the most ridiculous attempt at “being too clever by half.”

Imagine: A man who has stood toe-to-toe with the entire liberal establishment of Alabama – not once, but twice – is now, on the eve of an important election, suddenly “discovered” to have been a lecherous, disgusting lawyer forty years ago. And – amazingly so! – this has only suddenly come to light just in time to save those wretched Southerners from making a mistake that Mitch McConnell and others would heartily regret!

Huh? Say again? You mean to say that the man who twice lost his elected position as an Alabama Supreme justice due to his unflinching stand on the place of the Ten Commandments has really, truly been a blackguard all this time? You mean to say that our society is so evil that it has elevated this man to the highest position of trust, totally ignoring the cries of these “poor, disadvantaged [once teenage] over-forty-year-old girls”?

Please. Spare me!!

Shakespeare wrote a line in Hamlet that suits these accusers perfectly: “The lad[ies] doth protest too much, methinks.” Permit me to offer some insights into this state of affairs:

1.  Roy Moore’s opponents can’t bring up anything to stop this righteous, stalwart man from being elected to Congress by a state whose citizens have been awakened to what is at stake in our country.

2.  This would not be the first time that a political group has hired people to lie in order to destroy the opposition. What is President Trump being subjected to at this very moment?

3.  Why wait all this time to bring the allegations to light? These women know that they do not presently have – nor do they ever have a snowball’s chance in hell of obtaining – actual physical proof of what they allege. Furthermore, they are also overly-confident that they will never be taken to court for their allegations. They firmly believe that Moore’s Christian ethics will prevent him from suing them; thus, they feel overly-confident that they will not suffer any repercussions whatsoever.

However, the people who have cobbled together this last-minute attempt to discredit an honorable Christian from doing God’s work in Washington, D.C. – a place where the devil has run rampant for far too long – have been “too clever by half.” The timing of these allegations smells to high heaven. In fact, it reminds me of a startling and poignant passage from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians:

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life” (2 Cor. 2:15-17).

Roy Moore is the savor of the Savior. That leaves a stench coming from somewhere else.

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