Posted on 05/29/2019 12:14:58 PM PDT by mbrfl
I agree in principle.
However Moore couldn’t motivate the people who know him best - his fellow Alabamans to come out and overcome those outside influences. This is a state with a Republican 49 vs 35 Democrat split (as of 2014). A 14 point advantage! That speaks volumes as to his capability as a candidate.
How could he possibly know that Stephanie McCrummen was going to round up a bunch of crazy bitches to make lying accusations against Roy Moore? How could anyone have known that?
That’s why he backed Luther Strange, a guy who voted 98% of the time.
Had Luther Strange been the nominee, we would all be complaining that everyone should have known he had a corruption problem, and *THAT* is why we lost the seat to Doug Jones.
Well the people of Alabama did know about this, and that's why they picked Roy Moore in the primary.
Bannon and Gorka ‘knew better’, and wanted to build up their cred with the base, so the went against POTUS on this one. They were wrong, and he was right.
Uh, no, he wasn't. Luther Strange would have provoked the same sort of media assault against him, but this time the media would have been accusing him of corruption, and the same sort of coward Republican backstabbers that stabbed Moore in the back, would have cowardly stabbed Luther Strange in the back too.
I believe Donald Trump wants whatever is best for the Republican Party and the country. Even if Roy Moore is the best man he needs to step aside for the sake of the party and our country. It too important for one man’s ego.
Moore is on a mission from God.
The guy is in his 80’s, step aside!
So what? The hit job worked, didn't it? JFK wasn't re-elected to the presidency either because he got killed. Wasn't fair, but it happened. How's Sarah Palin's political future these days? Oh, that's right the same thing happened to her as happened to Moore. The real story is that Moore could not hold on the 29 point lead. There is no reason to believe he'd win if he ran again. Fair or not, the smear/slime/hit job worked. Sucks, but it's what it is. Moore is over.
He’s 72 and younger than President Trump.
I don't think that wanting Federal Judges defied for making up crap law is something "wrong."
What I think is wrong is the meek acceptance of these arrogant bastards telling you bullsh*t and you accepting it.
Long past time we told Federal Judges to go f*** themselves. They are out of control.
He is too old, enough is enough.
Roy could win if it weren’t for “conservatives”.
When he pulled out a gun at a rally....that was the end for me.
The only way the Democrats win the seat is if Moore is the candidate.
Mo Brooks would seem the logical choice, but I thought I saw something upthread to the point that Brooks has said he isn't going to run for the seat.
Surely it can't be that hard to find a worthy candidate?
I almost want Roy Moore to run again just to watch all the heads explode!
Almost. :)
Your post explains why he lost that election. Regardless of whether he was right or wrong, the reality is that very few voters think that’s the most important thing for their legislators to deal with. I’m sure the general consensus among them was: “We elected you to public office and you got thrown out over a stupid statue of the Ten Commandments in a public building? You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Getting removed from the office he was elected to serve in? So, he was really influential on all the cases that came before the court after he was removed twice, I guess.
Many people also got a real charge out of it when George Wallace stood in the school house door. But all that accomplished was to get the state a lot of bad publicity and a very negative spot in the history books forever. Moore's "stands" were very similar to that and there was no hope he'd accomplish anything in the long run.
Don Jr. spoke out against him. I'm through with respecting Don Jr. He should just SHUT UP, after leaving his wife and children for a shiny toy.
Which they pretty much do on every off year election. Of course people are presenting it as though Moore did this, rather than it being a routine occurrence in most elections.
Yes, fewer people go to the polls in non presidential elections. People should stop trying to make that appear to be Moore's fault.
A lot of people simply don't bother with non-presidential elections.
The establishment in Alabama hated Moore and would not back him. Additionally, Richard Shelby got on National television and urged Alabamians to "write in" some other name.
Something like 23,000 "write in" ballots occurred, which broke the record in Alabama.
Having the other US Senator from Alabama urge his own voters not to support Moore is a stab in the back that is hard to recover from.
Moore almost managed it anyway. I think if the fraud was thrown out, he probably would have won.
Those guys undermined Moore because they knew damn well that he would be one of the most unreliable GOP votes in the U.S. Senate on almost ANY issue.
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