However you may feel about placing the Ten Commandments in full view of

visitors to a state courthouse (I’m fine with it myself), it becomes ever

more clear that Roy Moore is NOT a guy you want on your side, in this or any

other fight. He is now putting about the claim that Alabama State Attorney

General Bill Pryor’s actions in getting him dismissed were part of a plan by

Pryor to ingratiate himself with liberals, in the hope of overcoming

political opposition to Pryor’s appointment to the U.S. Circuit Court of

Appeals. Nobody who has followed this case, or had any acquaintance with

Bill Pryor, could believe this. Aside from anything else, given public

feeling about “Roy’s Rock” in the state, Pryor has spent political capital

to get Moore removed from office. He has done so, it seems to me, because

of an overriding belief in the integrity and majesty of the law, a belief

that cannot look kindly on a high officer of the court flouting a federal

injunction. Pryor has acted with selfless integrity, in the name of the

law–indicating yet again that he is exactly the kind of person we need on

the federal bench. Roy Moore blew it. There is talk of him running for

political office when major state elections come round in 2006. I predict

that by that point he will be Roy Who? He is not the first public official

to get fired for arrogant insubordination while being correct on the

underlying issue. Name Douglas Macarthur mean anything?