Posted on 12/13/2017 9:47:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
Allegations aside, Moore ran a bad race. If he had just stopped talking he would have won.
Blacks didn’t show up because of what did or didn’t happen to some White chick 40 years ago, those “family life” comments....
I was critical but it turns out the President was 100% right.
Hopefully the party will be united behind excellent Senator Ted Cruz and there won’t be any silly nonsense.
A Cruz loss will mean that the Dems won overwhelmingly in 2018, and would lead to a Trump impeachment in 2019.
I sure hope we’ve heard the last of Roy Moore. I’ve lived in Alabama a long time and he brings controversy everywhere he goes. A lot of times it was totally unnecessary and created a mess.
That makes a lot of us - many will blame other things but none of us really looked beyond what we liked about Moore and totally ignored the potential issues (outside the freaking attacks).
I remember being a bit dismayed when he pulled the gun out of his pocket at a rally to show he supported the 2nd - started to see a Barnum and Bailey attraction instead of the rock solid conservative we had been thinking about.
I just hope the lesson wasn’t too expensive. Many of us outsiders saw what we thought was a solid guy and ignored the “fluff”.
I wanted Mo Brooks in the initial election.
I was dubious of Moore for
A)Barely winning his prior races
B)Saying dumb stuff
But I was totally convinced it was a no-brainier to back Moore over Strange in the runoff. Moore was the most Trump Senate candidate ever I thought, the President was cowing to the party establishment I thought. Turns out Moore was more like Sharron Angle than Donald Trump, and the President was wiser than I in gauging the danger of actually losing.
I really think the dumb comments on “family life” in slavery times and other junk like that may have been the real kicker, I don’t think Blacks turned out like they did because of what did or didn’t happen to some White girls decades ago.
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