The urgency to get the party to back Moore type candidates isn t immediately apparent If the point is just to hold Republican Senate seats safer more conventional Republicans are better suited to the task If the point is just to support the Trump agenda safer more conventional candidates are as reliable and perhaps more reliable than the likes of Moore who opposed the Graham Cassidy health care bill Rand Paul praises Roy Moore for opposing Obamacare repeal effort is how one headline put it at the time 