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Roy Moore, the ousted Alabama chief justice, has found that even the Ten Commandments can't overcome him constantly putting his foot in his mouth in his self-destructing campaign to become governor.

Moore rode a wave of support from the religious right when he placed a huge stone monument of the Ten Commandments right smack in the middle of the rotunda of the state judicial building in Montgomery in direct violation of federal law and without the knowledge or consent of other justices on the Alabama Supreme Court.

As a result, he properly lost his job as chief justice. He incorrectly thought he had more support than he did and mounted a run for governor as a Republican candidate.

But from day one the campaign has gone down hill, thanks mostly to his honor himself.

Moore at first grumbled that the Alabama Republican Party was favoring his opponent, Gov. Bob Riley. There was no evidence of that.

In a recent speech at a chamber of commerce meeting in north Alabama, Moore was asked by a woman in the audience if he thought voters "had enough sense" to elect delegates to a constitutional convention. His short answer? "No."

The Alabama Legislature is currently debating legislation as to whether or not voters should be allowed to vote on a call for a new constitution.

Later, he said his simple answer was distorted and that he meat that special interests would control the process.

Most recently, Moore has suggested that the news of mad cow disease being discovered in an Alabama cow is made up and a ruse to promote a nationwide animal identification system.

Moore has said he fears such animal identification will spread to other livestock and is just another intrusion of government.

He has the right to voice that assessment if he believes it but to suggest that state and federal officials simply made up a mad cow discovery in Alabama is, well, just plain whacky.

Thankfully, Alabama voters are seeing through Judge Moore. Even the Ten Commandments won't carry him to the mountaintop of state government with his constant blunders.