1) Bannon is the one that pushed for Moore. Bannon pushed for someone dumb enough to make his wife the campaign manager and run a terrible campaign.
2) Again, Moore was Bannon’s boy. As Trump put it, if that “election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up GREAT Republican candidates” - certainly not ones like Moore. One you already pointed out makes dumb decisions.
3) Strange would have easily defeated Jones. Anti-Trumpers love to try to tell you that anyone Trump endorses is tainted - but it just isn’t true. Fake news.
4) We are talking about Moore here, not Brooks.
If Bannon had just fallen in line with Trump, we would still have two senators from Alabama. Bannon needs to learn his place or get out of the game.
Have you forgotten how Luther Strange got the seat?
He was the state Attorney General investigating corruption in the administration of the state’s governor, Robert Bentley. He agreed to take the appointment to the seat by the very person he had been investigating. If you think Jones and his people wouldn’t have used that against Strange, you’re naive. And it would have worked, too.
Again, the best choice was Brooks, and it wasn’t Bannon who went after him and knocked him out (with smears.) It was Ditch. And Brooks was the only one of the three who could have pulled off a victory.
And the reason Moore was in the runoff was because of what McConnell and the GOPe did to Brooks. THAT is what cost the GOP the seat.
Trumpkins love to tell you that anyone Trump endorses is a great, principled winner — but it just isn’t true. Fake news. The fact is that Luther was a loser and was a RINO anyway.