Money won't cover up that Strange Bentley stench

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(JD Crowe/jdcrowe@al.com)

Luther Strange had a chance to be one of the few Alabama politicians to rise above the good ol' boy stereotype and run for higher office on a relatively clean record of accomplishment.

As Attorney General, he took over a job that was turned into a joke by his predecessor, Troy King. Though he recused himself from the Mike Hubbard ethics case, Strange deserves credit for assembling a team that won a conviction of the most powerful player in one of the country's most politically corrupt states.

And then he did the one thing that stinks up his credibility as a fighter of corruption: He sought and accepted Jeff Sessions' vacated U.S. Senate seat from the goober governor his office was investigating. Too easy, too sleazy. 

Though tainted by the Bentley appointment, Strange is considered the 'incumbent' and national GOP insider money is flowing to keep him in the Senate. 

But all the money in Washington won't cover up that Strange Bentley stench any time soon.

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