Posted on 06/20/2019 5:34:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is set to announce his plans for the 2020 Alabama senate race on Thursday at 2 p.m. at The Ballroom in Montgomery.
Moore lost the U.S. Senate race in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers. Moore denied the allegations. President Donald Trump last month tweeted that Moore “cannot win” and said Republicans need to retake the seat in the once reliable red state. Democratic Sen. Doug Jones currently holds the position.
The event is open to invited guests and credentialed press.
The problem is we have a conservative, Brooks, but if dicknipple Moore runs again, he will cut out the conservative and TANK 685,000 AL voters.
No one, and I mean no one should be standing up for loser Moore unless you want Doug Jones back.
100% correct.
It is insane that ANY conservative at this point would back Moore, given that he is absolutely certain to hand the seat back to Jones.
Bradley Byrne (R-AL, 1st Cong. District—Mobile) and Tommy Tuberville (former coach, Auburn Tigers) are running.
I’ll vote for either of them. If Martha Roby runs, I won’t vote for her never-Trumpian, RINO butt.
I won’t waste a vote on Moore again. His problem is Alabama Republicans stay home when he runs.
No one, and I mean no one should be standing up for loser Moore unless you want Doug Jones back.
First the GOPe came for Moore. But I didn’t care because I didn’t support Moore...
I am no fan of Moore but the GOPe selecting primary candidates is an extremely dangerous precedent.
Tucker had a great piece last night on how the GOP donor class who control the party are more aligned with the Democrats policy wise than conservatives. Moore is just another example of that.
I wish he wouldn't. He may have gotten a raw deal with the media spreading lies the last time around, but at this point he is so damaged, he is not a sure election win.
Mo Brooks has already made noises that he isn't going to run, so an alternative needs to step forward.
I like Moore's stand on the Ten Commandments and opposing F@ggot marriage, but I would rather have a certain winner than another nail biter that might go the other way.
Strange would provoke a charge of corruption by the media attack machine.
Sessions might win, but we want someone who will actually fight against the Deep state, not cooperate with it.
I liked Moore because he would have fought hard against the Deep state, but I see him as too badly damaged by the media lies against him.
The media "Kavanaughed" Moore before they did it to Brett Kavanaugh. I believe they tried it on Kavanaugh because this lying worked so well for them against Moore.
Pray tell, how would *YOU* defend yourself against a massive media onslaught accusing you of being a child molesting rapist for months and months?
How does "Perfect candidate" deal with such an accusation and the deliberate backstabbing by Richard Shelby and other prominent Republican officials?
How do you fix that sort of problem?
Not surprised to see you once again on the wrong side of an issue.
West Point graduate. Officer in the US Army in the Vietnam War. Put himself through Law School when he returned. Was pretty much a scandal free judge for 40 years. Defended his state from an overabusive Federal Judiciary.
Clearly not an idiot.
If anyone reads this far, here is the list of Republican candidates for the Alabama 2020 election against Doug Jones:
Republican primary
Candidates
Declared
—Stanley Adair, businessman
—Bradley Byrne, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district
—John Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State
—Arnold Mooney, state representative
—Tommy Tuberville, former Auburn Tigers football head coach
Potential
-Robert Aderholt, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 4th congressional district
—Robert J. Bentley, former Governor of Alabama
—Lee Busby, former chief of staff for John Kelly
—Will Dismukes, state representative
—Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama
—Steve Marshall, Alabama Attorney General
—Kayla Moore, president of the Foundation for Moral Law and wife of former Chief Justice, gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore
—Roy Moore, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, former candidate for governor in 2006 and 2010 and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2017
—Arthur Orr, state senator
—Gary Palmer, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district
—Rick Pate, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries
—Trip Pittman, state senator and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2017
—Mike Rogers, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 3rd congressional district
—Heather Whitestone, former Miss America
—Jim Zeigler, State Auditor of Alabama
Declined
—Will Ainsworth, Alabama Lieutenant Governor
—Mo Brooks, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 5th congressional district and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2017
—Matt Gaetz, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district
—Del Marsh, President Pro Tempore of the Alabama Senate
—Martha Roby, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district
—Jeff Sessions, former United States Attorney General and former U.S. Senator
No. Hannity accepted the lie put forth by that Stephanie McCrummen b*tch from the Washington post that if Moore dated "teenagers" (as in 18 and 19 year olds) then this proves that he molested a 14 year old and attempted to rape a 16 year old.
Hannity kept conflating the two distinct accusations as being the same thing, and put Moore into a terrible spot by accepting the claim that the one thing was the same as the other.
Yes, Moore dated "teenagers" as in 18 and 19 year old women. No, Moore did not molest a 14 year old, or attempt to rape a 16 year old. Both of those women are demonstrable liars.
Hannity should have never supported the premise that dating teenagers was the equivalent of being a child molesting rapist. Hannity screwed that up.
That is a lie which our side gleefully repeated and propagated.
He dated "teenagers" as in 18 and 19 year old women. He did not date underaged girls.
Because he is a massive liability? He will be the face of the DSCC campaign. Is that enough?
Worst case scenario for the GOP would be if he were to lose the primary and then run as an independent. I can see him having enough ego to do that.
How do you fix that sort of problem?
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You ask a good question that may not have an easy answer.
I’m not sure that Moore campaigned all that hard in the last
two weeks of the campaign. I know he went to the Army/Navy
game the weekend before the election on Tuesday.
I live in Mississippi and have a couple of good friends from Montgomery, Alabama coming over for the weekend. They’re as hard core republican as you get. I was talking to one of them yesterday and she told me about Moore being set to announce his senate run. She said “that jacka$$ will probably ride in on a horse again to make the announcement”.
Roy Moore is probably the only republican in the state that could lose that election to Doug Jones. If he cared anything about Alabama or the United States he would not run in order to ensure that Doug Jones is defeated and the seat returned to republican hands. He doesn’t care though, he’s just a showboating clown that cares about feeding his ego, not the well being of the state of Alabama.
If he does run again, I’ll be convinced he’s a Rat plant.
Because he is a massive liability? He will be the face of the DSCC campaign. Is that enough?
And loser retread Mitt Romney being the “face of the party” and undermining POTUS in the media helps the GOP how exactly? Don’t delude yourself on this. Moore’s only crime is being a conservative “maverick.” The GOP would have no problem with him if he was a reliable vote for K Street.
“Nick Saban?”
No one in their right mind would take a pay cut like that!
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