What will change their minds?
Why was it so easy to sway them in the first place?
Was the evidence against Moore that compelling?
Was his support that shallow?
In either case, what will shore up the base this time?
I ask this sincerely, as you can peruse my posts from two years ago and see that I was a stalwart supporter of Moore last go 'round as the voter's choice to run the general.
The heat is going to be cranked up to the max until the knob gets twisted off, so whoever is the nominee, better have an ironclad solid footing, with no loose ends or weak areas to cultivate by the media/rats.
I , for one, was underwhelmed at the final performance last time.
Trump will be on the ballot.
Why was it so easy to sway them in the first place? Was the evidence against Moore that compelling?
"Compelling" would have been the Gloria Allred show, with what was later found to be a forged signature in a yearbook. Until then, it was he said/she said with one woman whose son said she's a liar, another with connections to the state Democrat party, etc... the usual suspect motives.
The yearbook was tangible evidence, and was sufficient until it was proven false after the election. Just like with tainted donations, when the candidate gets the benefit of it before the election, and then vows to return the money after the election is won but it already served its purpose, the forged yearbook put enough doubt in people's minds before the election, and the truth came out after the election when it was too late for people to do anything about it.
Was his support that shallow?
You'd have to say this about BOTH candidates, since Hillary Clinton got more votes than either of them, and Trump got about the same votes as both of them combined. So it wasn't "shallow" support, just very low turnout on both sides.
In either case, what will shore up the base this time?
Natural tendencies. Republicans will be like to vote straight Republican and Democrats will be likely to vote straight Democrat. Ticket splitting is not uncommon, but not likely across the 600k who voted in 2016 but not in 2017.
I ask this sincerely, as you can peruse my posts from two years ago and see that I was a stalwart supporter of Moore last go 'round as the voter's choice to run the general.
As was I. I wanted to see Moore win for several reasons:
The heat is going to be cranked up to the max until the knob gets twisted off, so whoever is the nominee, better have an ironclad solid footing, with no loose ends or weak areas to cultivate by the media/rats.
That's an unattainably high bar. Everyone has flaws, nobody is perfect.
Look at what they did to generally clean Mitt Romney. They turned him into a school bully, a misogynist, and a heartless man who didn't care that his employees families had cancer.
The Brett Kavanaugh hearings changed everything -- I hope.
I hope it showed Republicans that they don't have to fold against the slightest headwind from Democrats, like they did with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, who both made slight gaffes that were blown up into existential crises to scare Republican leadership away.
If Moore were to survive the primary, he could run on a platform redemption for Alabama voters, saying that he was "target practice" for what Democrats did to Brett Kavanaugh a year later, and voters should see clearly now how they were manipulated in 2017 to vote against their best interests.
The problem that Moore and Alabama voters will still face is that their interests are not Mitch McConnell's interests.
-PJ