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Steve Bannon's Big Loss in Alabama
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/steve-bannons-big-loss-alabama/ ^

Posted on 12/13/2017 3:43:25 AM PST by deek69

The big loser in Tuesday's Alabama's special Senate election was not the Republican Party. They had already lost weeks ago, the moment the Washington Post wrote their (carefully vetted, in this instance) exposé of the thirty-year-old sexual proclivities of Judge Roy Moore.

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To: xzins
I'm not suggesting he was a great candidate. He had problems.

What I am suggesting is Alabama Republicans let the Alynskyite leftist candidate, one who hates everything they stand for win, because of unfounded lies made up by the evil on the left.

They should have known better. They now have elected a hard leftist purveyor of evil because they would rather stay home in some kind of shame cooked up for them by the leftist scum they let in by not showing up.

It's hard not to notice what suckers we can be. Alabama was played, we were all played. We should have recognized that, but we didn't, and we all lost.

121 posted on 12/13/2017 6:33:07 AM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: DoodleDawg

McConnell is the one doing the happy dance this morning

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At some point down the road, when hindsight is 20-20, I believe Mitch is going to discover he was dancing on his own (political) grave.


122 posted on 12/13/2017 6:37:25 AM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: central_va
I wish you globalists would form your own party.

They already own 2 parties, how many more should they form?

123 posted on 12/13/2017 6:39:25 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Kate's Wall, build it!)
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To: Qiviut
At some point down the road, when hindsight is 20-20, I believe Mitch is going to discover he was dancing on his own (political) grave.

If there's any justice in the world.

124 posted on 12/13/2017 6:40:12 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: xzins

Piling on Bannon is what Meghan McCain is doing. So do you want to be like that whore?


125 posted on 12/13/2017 6:42:06 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: deek69

The REAL story is that there are stupid, perverted, wicked Americans who will vote for someone who supports tearing babies into pieces up to the moment of birth.

None of us is safe, and the country is on a path to dissolution, as long as there are sick, evil Americans like that.


126 posted on 12/13/2017 6:42:43 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: BlackbirdSST
They already own 2 parties, how many more should they form?

Great point blackbird.

127 posted on 12/13/2017 6:42:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: deek69

I like Bannon, his heart is in the right place but as a strategist he’s somewhere south of even the detestable Rove. He’s looking for any fight at any cost.

The cost happens to be that now, for at least the next year, he’s turned MAGA into Make America No Worse. Gridlock is the best we can achieve now with the Senate firmly in Never-Trump and de facto Democrat control.

So Steve, your gambit just took a year out of the Trump presidency.


128 posted on 12/13/2017 6:43:46 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Fresh Wind

“Luther Strange is exactly the type of DC insider/lobbyist/swamp creature that we are trying to get rid of. ”

You succeeded in getting rid of him for sure. Now you’ve got the male version of Patty Murray. What are you going to do with him?


129 posted on 12/13/2017 6:48:45 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Steve Bannon has my support. He needs to fight every primary and oust the RINOs. He needs our support not derision. So in a nice way FOAD.


130 posted on 12/13/2017 6:50:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mbrfl

Without Bannon in ‘18 we will get a slew of RINOs’ running again.


131 posted on 12/13/2017 6:52:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: deek69
Bannon was worse than useless in this race.

Moore was so starved for cash he could not even afford to respond to media allegations, much less counter them.

Moore hooked climbed on the Bannon band wagon but Bannon didn't have a team of horses to hook up and pull the wagon.

132 posted on 12/13/2017 6:54:40 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Lakeshark

I believe I read that Trump won Alabama with more votes than were cast on either side. Why don’t voters come out for special elections? Lots has been written on that one. My sense for this election is that Moore withdrew at the same time he was being massively outspent.

He wouldn’t debate, he wouldn’t interview, and he was too broke to spend on advertising.

He disappeared. I suppose he hoped to run out the clock. He lost by only 20k votes, so maybe he was right.

I couldn’t help but notice Trump never entered Alabama to campaign for him. Wonder why?


133 posted on 12/13/2017 6:55:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: deek69

Not so sure about this.

The Republican media was 24/7 anti-Moore.

The Republican Senate worked to get the Dem elected, before the WP smears even.


134 posted on 12/13/2017 6:57:44 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: deek69
Democrats are trying to spin this as a "deep red state turning blue" while establishment Republicans are trying to spin this as an endorsement of their candidates over "extremists."

Neither is true, because if it weren't for the sexual allegations, Roy Moore would have won against Jones by a double-digit landslide, just as he defeated establishment Republican Luther Strange.

Having said that, I mentioned on another thread that Trump's seemingly odd endorsement of Strange over Moore may have been strategic, if rumors that Moore's alleged "victims" would come forward and make a scandal were already in circulation. That's at least as plausible as the alternative explanation, i.e. that Trump endorsed Strange in order to get Congressional establishment Republicans to go along with aspects of his agenda in return.

135 posted on 12/13/2017 6:58:24 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: OttawaFreeper

In a state as republican as Alabama a D win by any margin in a statewide election is a huge slap in the face to R’s


136 posted on 12/13/2017 6:58:40 AM PST by maxtheripper
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To: ifinnegan
The Republican media was 24/7 anti-Moore. The Republican Senate worked to get the Dem elected, before the WP smears even.

That won't matter, they will still lob all Republicans in with Moore, yes, even the ones who opposed him. They need to get it through their thick skulls that we all sink or swim together.
137 posted on 12/13/2017 6:59:03 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: central_va

I pile on John McCain for losing the health vote, on Jeff Sessions for bei g an absentee AG, on Mattis for being spineless in the social engineering debate, and on Bannon for doing a lousy job in Alabama.

I’m an equal opportunity critic of obvious, unforced errors.


138 posted on 12/13/2017 6:59:21 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: xzins

I am not saying Bannon does not draw a paycheck but he is patriot and doing this for the country. All of these Bannon ankle biter son Free Republic are embarrassing.


139 posted on 12/13/2017 7:01:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: deek69

Washington DC, our MSM, our universities and cultural institutions —> One huge and growing inferno. The amount of fuel lying just outside the fire ring is beyond what any of us are imagining and it is only a matter of time until we all look back on this day, relatively speaking, as just one early skirmish.

There are no winners here, the losses are well spread, and the fools include anyone opening their mouths too wide the morning after ... without taking at least some time to deliberate over what is surely a complex situation.

I have great faith in America’s deplorables, truly our time will come, but we need leadership that is calm, deliberate, careful and at the same time bold/principled/articulate. Steve Bannon is not my cup of tea, but he has a great future if he simply regroups and comes back in this way, and on those terms I would want him to have a strong voice for our side. But just yelling that the others side s*cks is not going to win the larger war.

In the end, fates will be determined in the marketplace of ideas, with strong leaders buying and selling the best and winning products. Our side should not stoop to the politics of personal destruction and instead focus on what are clearly and resolutely compelling narratives for this country.


140 posted on 12/13/2017 7:03:22 AM PST by drellberg
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