ROY MOORE ON A HORSE PROVES THAT "AUTHENTICITY" IN POLITICS IS A CROCK

As we wait to learn the outcome of the Alabama Senate race, let's pause to note that Roy Moore rode his horse to the polls today -- and was mocked mercilessly by people who actually know how to ride horses:

This is hilarious, his form sucks & that horse was thinking about bucking him pic.twitter.com/NLWfm8QtlY

— Molly (@Molly_Kats) December 12, 2017

He can't even ride a gaited horse! That's literally the equivalent of not being able to ride a tricycle WITH training wheels on it!

— Kristen Lea Vibbert (@KVibb13) December 12, 2017

Like I haven't regularly ridden a horse since childhood but, at minimum: reins gathered in one hand, lean forward, don't stick your legs out like you're on a goddamn carousel

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) December 12, 2017

But do you know what we're not hearing? We're not hearing any of the usual mainstream-media pundits talking about Moore's lack of "authenticity" -- which is exactly what we'd hear if a Democrat tried riding a horse to the polls and did so as embarrassingly as Moore.

Is a Republican in a general election ever derided as "inauthentic"? Mitt Romney is the only one who comes to mind. A few of the candidates who lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries were derided as "inauthentic" -- but once a Republican heads to a general election, he or she is almost invariably presumed to have "authenticity," while the Democrat, if he's not named Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, is usually deemed "inauthentic."

That was true even last year, when Donald Trump was a self-evident phony -- a phony populist, a phony Christian, a phony isolationist, a phony patriot.

Now Roy Moore is the phoniest of cowboys. But it's okay, because he's a Republican.