Rock and a hard place

Perhaps the trickiest political position in America is held by Bill Pryor, the young attorney general of Alabama. Pryor, a candidate for a federal judgeship, has long a darling of conservative Christians. But he has come out against former ally Roy S. Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who has drawn national attention for his refusal to obey a court order to remove an enormous statute of the Ten Commandments he installed in the Montgomery courthouse (he has since relented).

Pryor is now drawing fire from the left for being associated with Moore at all, and from the right for abandoning him. When liberals see you as a conservative nut and conservatives see you as a traitor to the cause, there's not much room left. Good luck, Bill.
- posted by Anonymous @ 9:52 AM