Posted on 09/23/2017 4:55:26 PM PDT by WilliamIII
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — As thousands of President Trump’s supporters arrived at an evening rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.), they passed a handful of signs promoting Strange’s rival, former state judge Roy Moore.
“Vote for the godly man,” Cal Zastrow, 56, told passersby as he held a Moore campaign sign and often bounced with giddy excitement for Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff election.
“I’m voting for Moore,” one man told him, grabbing some pamphlets to take to church on Sunday.
“We all are,” chimed in a woman walking past.
Over the course of the afternoon, it happened over and over again. Many of those who showed up to the president’s rally in this northern Alabama city — home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center — said they firmly support the president and were excited to see him. But they did not plan to follow his recommendation to vote for Strange, who has attracted the heavy financial support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s political action committee.
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I hope they do vote for Moore. The Donald will lose face and the libs will gloat. Not good. Wake up Donald.
Trump will be very sad. He will say, “Aw, shucks.” One eyelid will twitch in disappointment.
I bet he secretly hopes Moore will win
Then why won’t he endorse him.
This is not MAGA.
In the larger scope, what is confusing to the “betters” is that the riff-raff no longer is listening to what they are saying and following like the sheep that they are supposed to.
I suspect Trump will campaign for Moore just as enthusiastically.
I think President Trump has effectively got two vice presidents, Pence (the Midwest), and Sessions (the South). Since by tradition, elected officials and the party apparatus don’t get involved in primaries (except in the most dire of circumstances), this to me looks like Trump is trying to figure out what Sessions is worth to him in support.
Might, may, and could equal more Fake News from the Compost!
They still don’t get it.
Many of us are (covert) TEA Party, and Trump is our (covert) TEA Party Leader. It is true grass roots, but nobody organized us. We’re like a swarm that can’t be killed, as we just disperse, bide our time, then regroup around our leader. Covert, not dead. We saw what happened when the entire universe of control freaks went against us. They did everything they could to destroy the TEA Party movement, and did serious damage. They rightly saw us as the biggest threat to them to ever emerge from anywhere, ever, and they threw the kitchen sink at us and did serious damage. But didn’t kill us, just prevented us from truly organizing. We are smart, determined, self organized, motivated, and have a deep, deep burning anger at the way this corrupt government has almost destroyed our country.
Many have “tried” to lead us; virtually all have failed either because of their own self-serving agendas or susceptibility to being destroyed by the anti-freedom cabal. Sarah came close.
Until TD, we had nobody with the strength, brilliance, and friken giant steel balls who was also immune to all of the methods they’ve used in the past to decapitate any leaders. We’ve From all sides, they all tried mightily to kill us, but we’re still here. We are better informed, and largely immune to political BS. We’ve had it! and now we have a leader! But TD is not all we are. He is our leader, and will make mistakes, but will never, ever, ever sell us out. So we gently go in the correct direction, without blasting our leader to hard. And the correct direction is away from The Cabal. Away from McConnell, Ryan, the GOPe, incumbents in general.
So Luther Strange will lose, Moore will win, and we will still support Trump. Because he will never, ever, ever sell us out.
I think he is fine with Moore winning.
President Trump explained what a loyal person he is and why he was helping Strange. BUT, he did give his base 3 green lights to vote as they please.
1. He said he may be making a mistake.
2. He said he would definitely work to help Moore.
3. He gave the go-ahead for his people to endorse and help Moore if they chose to do so.
Pretty clear that he wanted to thank Strange for his loyalty but is fine with Moore winning.
I’m in Alabama, and I’ll be voting Moore, despite Trump and the NRA endorsing Strange. I know all too well who Strange is, and what he did as Attorney General. Banning guns in roadside rest stops, and bringing in a SWAT-like army to shut down a legitimate local business and seize all their assets— I will not soon forget what Strange did.
I suspect Trump went “Strange” as a way to put McConnell on the HOOK for getting behind elements of Trump’s agenda. So far as I could tell, Moore is STILL ahead in the polling and Trump was aware of that. His remark during the rally seems to indicate that was the plan.
If it fails to pull McConnell in, you can bet that will be the last time Trump tries to get an IOU from Meathead McConnell.
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