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?
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
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.
Days and days. The special election was on December 12th and the accusations broke around November 10th.
And Moore still lost, in spite of a Trump endorsement, a Trump rally, and a resumption of funding by the RNC.
First of all, I’d forcefully defend against those allegations... call the liars out for who they are. Moore didn’t come close to that. His weak answers to a friendly interviewer such as Hannity showed he lacked the enthusiasm to insist he was innocent of those charges.
It’s not about a “perfect” candidate. It’s about winning that damned seat that never should’ve been lost.