Just when he needed an ego massage, Roy Moore - who once accidentally stabbed himself with a murder weapon while prosecuting a case in an Alabama courtroom - is the new tip of the spear for the Republican party.

Yes, the GOP already welcomes candidates who are despised by party establishment, notorious for incendiary viewpoints, and saddled by accusations of sexual impropriety. And it has a history of pushing that bandwagon when their campaign hits the final furlong.

The difference is that Donald Trump's party has now gone all-in with an accused child molester, after that particular depravity seemed like a deal-breaker 3 weeks ago.

Most took their cue from the President: With the Senate election one week away, Trump checked the polls and endorsed Moore Monday, and overnight his super PAC poured $1.1 million into Moore's campaign.

Three weeks after cancelling its joint fundraising agreement, the Republican National Committee, which takes orders from Trump, restored its funding to Moore's campaign.

And their morally-bankrupt party leaders - the same people who embraced Trump weeks after condemning his Access Hollywood soliloquy - have reaffirmed the president as their moral compass.

Three weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the accusations against Moore credible, and predicted Moore would be expelled if elected to the Senate.

After Trump's endorsement, McConnell said, "The people of Alabama are going to decide a week from Tuesday who they want to send to the Senate. It's really up to them."

Three weeks ago, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Moore must face a congressional ethics probe if elected.

Now the Senate's No. 2 man says, "None of us get to vote on who's the senator from Alabama. Just Alabama voters do. I think we have to respect their decision."

And House Speaker Paul Ryan - who remembers how his polls fell 20 points after cancelling those post-Billy Bush rallies with Trump - told NPR Saturday that he's content to follow Trump into history's dumpster because "what I see is a president who is fighting for the things I'm fighting for, an agenda that will have a positive difference in people's lives."

He did not specify the "positive difference" a pedophile might have in one's life.

Not all Republicans felt this way after Trump's endorsement of Moore, but the loudest dissenters no longer hold office. Former RNC chairman Michael Steele tweeted that the GOP's endorsement of "an alleged pedophile for the sake of 'a vote' tells me. . . .America no longer has a moral compass under your 'leadership.'" Mitt Romney added that Moore's election would be "a stain on the GOP and on the nation," and that "no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity."

It was only three weeks ago when Moore threatened to fracture the Republican Party.

Now the party has decided that a guy banned from the Gadsden Mall should be seated in Congress.

Nine women have accused Moore of molestation or sexual assault. One was a child of 14. Most of the allegations have been unchallenged.

Ivanka Trump, who found the Moore accusations credible, said this of their assailant: "There's a special place in hell for people who prey on children."

But there is also a place for them in the Senate, as long as her father deems it vital to his political and economic interests.

Just don't call it an ethical dilemma. It is actually a fetid pile of moral relativism, courtesy of the party of family values, and they own it.

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