Posted on 01/28/2020 7:12:47 AM PST by knighthawk
Scandal-ridden Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing a conservative media outlet for $40 million alleging "fake news," as he runs his second campaign in three years for the same Alabama seat.
The Alabama Republican lost to Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., in a 2017 special election, after facing multiple accusations during the campaign that he had pursued romantic relationships with teenage girls while he was in his 30s. Moore filed the suit against Washington Examiner on Monday.
“Like the people of Alabama, I am sick and tired of ‘fake news’ by media organizations which pretend to print the truth but in reality, are politically and philosophically motivated to distort the true facts for their own ends," he said in a statement. "Unlike some who choose to suffer in silence, I have decided to fight back!”
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Blam, did you think the Ten Commandments should be removed from that courthouse? I sure didn’t.
As for him siding against same sex marriage, did you disagree with him there?
He was championing my views on those two issues, and I think our nation would be better off today if he had prevailed.
We live in a society today that tramples Christian beliefs and historical documents, but allows the teaching of Islam in our public schools.
There’s more to this than what meets the eye, and I think Moore was right on target.
He stood up for what he and I believe in.
“Bottom line is Moore is the person most responsible for his own political demise.”
You mean the time honored practice of one party and the MSM spending billions of dollars trying to destroy a candidacy is all spent in vain, never ever has any effect? That false testimony never ever changes anything? That all cross-examinations are useless? That right always triumphs merely because it exists?
As soon was he won that primary the demoncRat and the republiCon leaderships both put into action a plan that would deny him the Senate seat.
Nah, the Republicans in the state backed him, but robocalls on the day before, plus top level trashing of him from Washington, D. C. caused some folks to doubt their own opinion of him.
Those same culprits refused to lift a finger to help Trump for his first two years in office.
Now we're backing their play?
Smile...
I think my replay to your comment before his, pretty much covers this too.
Take care.
republiCons
Watch it Doughty, the unofficial position here is Roy is a pervert, bad campaigner, rather watch baseball than get elected and Mitch and his cronies had nothing to do with his defeat.</s>
I submit the republiCon leadership didn't do much to help Trump either.
We are lucky to have Trump today, but it isn't because the GOPe and the RNC went full tilt in for him.
Moore didn't get trounced. He lost by a margin that was less than comfortable for the demoncRat.
The margin was 1.65%. He lost by 21,924 votes out of 1,325,868 votes cast.
He had republiCon Congressional members and if I remember correctly, some leaders too, trashing him.
Trump didn't endorse him either until the 4th of December when the election was to be held on the 12th.
Here's a report of Mitch McConnell's sterling endorsement.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Moore will be sworn in as a senator if he wins on Dec. 12, saying he would "let the people of Alabama decide." In November, McConnell stood by Moore's accusers, saying "I believe the women," and calling on the candidate to "step aside" from the race. LINK
His wife today is considerably younger than he is. He has had a long and successful marriage. He wasn't just messing around. He met with parents. They gave permission.
Others who dislike him like to mention he was removed from Alabama's Supreme Court twice. Let's look at that.
What are your views regarding the Ten Commandments in the halls of the Alabama Supreme Court (and other court office) building?
In a time when the ACLU and non believers in God profess to be strong separation of church and state, they have no problem at all with Islam being taught in our schools. You see, this isn't about separation. It's about reducing the influence of the Christian God on our children.
I supported Roy Moore on the issue of the Ten Commandments, not because I wanted to see this as a "conversion" tool, but because of the Christian's right to free speech. We have a right to have our views on pubic display. Roy Moore understood that.
His other removal from that court was related to same sex marriages. He refused to abdicate his responsibility on that matter. He chose to be removed from office rather than compromise. Folks, I agree with him.
He did the right thing in both those cases.
This guy advocated for our views on both these cases. He tried to stop the slide into oblivion, that is overtaking our nation. At a time when we can see what capitulation has gained us, Roy looks very prescient with regard to his stances on these issues.
Those who think Moore was just a kook, really need to do some re-evaluation. They need to look inside themselves and ask if they share his views or not. If not, then for heaven sake recognize yourself for what you are. Don't go blaming Roy Moore for standing up in the face of adversity, and being willing to lose his status and position, to back what he believed (and I believed) to be the right thing.
Roy Moore wasn't being considered for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His legal opinions weren't a consideration. His stance on morals, right and wrong, and our Founding Documents were what was on the line.
Like Trump, Moore's values aligned with ours. How sad it is to see folks trash him now, as if he lost in Alabama due to his own shortcomings. No, he didn't.
Moore lost in Alabama for the same reason Trump is on trial for Impeachment today. NOTHING!
His votes in the U. S. Senate would have been bolstering to our side. Today we would have a 54 44 majority in the U. S. Senate. If you add in the Independants, it would still be 52 46.
What that means is that we wouldn't have this situation where we cringe every time a big vote comes up. We would have that one more vote to prevent the Romney, Collins, et al cadre of turncoats to deal with.
Moore would have silenced that noise.
This was Mitch McConnell's resounding endorsement of Moore.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Moore will be sworn in as a senator if he wins on Dec. 12, saying he would "let the people of Alabama decide." In November, McConnell stood by Moore's accusers, saying "I believe the women," and calling on the candidate to "step aside" from the race. LINK
Who do we know who could have come within 1.65% or 21,924 votes out of 1,325,868 votes cast, the way Moore did despite being attacked by the demoncRats, the republiCons, the press, and forgetful well meaning misguided people, the way Moore did?
On the issues I care about, Roy Moore stood tall in the face of adversity. He would be an excellent addition to the U. S. Senate.
Moore’s opponent in the primary runoff, Luther Strange, attorney general of Alabama, had been appointed by the governor to fill Sessions’ vacant seat. The way that happened stinks of quid pro quo:
Conventional head-in-the-sand wisdom was that Strange would have beaten Jones easily, but that ignores the fact that Strange’s corruption would certainly have been a big issue for Jones in the campaign. And we will never know what other dirt they would have dredged up (or may already have had in reserve in case he beat Moore in the runoff).
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/strange-still-dogged-corruption-accusations-five-days-runoff
Would Strange have beat Jones? That is by no means certain.
Trump made a huge mistake initially supporting Strange, who didn’t deserve to be in office, possibly to curry favor with McConnell. Trump made another huge mistake not immediately endorsing Moore once he had the nomination.
Yes, Moore ran a crappy campaign. No question there. He might have pulled it off if the GOPe had supported him instead of Jones.
https://thefederalist.com/2017/12/12/mitch-mcconnell-is-the-reason-doug-jones-is-a-senator/
And I will say outright that there is as much reason from their posts to believe that the people who disparage him on this forum hate him for his opposition to gay marriage as for any other reason of any sort.
In fact, a cursory glance at their posting history shows that a lot of these same people backed the former governor of Massachusetts (who instituted homosexual marriage there) and were ticked off at Freepers who continued to oppose him after his governorship.
Homosexuality is pretty much what this is about.
Thanks for your thoughts on that MrEdd.
I don’t have an opinion on that because I haven’t looked into that like you seem to.
Whatever the reasons, I think we saw a good man abandoned and criticized irrationally.
We’re seeing it with Trump too.
Either we stand together or we get picked off one by one.
I heard all the stories about underage women and one in particular saying he tried this and that. I saw an interview with the accusers mother saying that never happened. Then the young girl said her mom didn’t know about it because she took the phone call to meet Roy in her room. Her mom replied she didn’t have an extension in her room.
Later I heard he was banned from the mall for going after young women. Then saw an interview with the guy that ran the mall for 14 years as I recall during the time of the accusations and it was the only mall in town. He said he never had a problem with Roy Moore and Roy never got banned from the mall.
The Dims, as they always do, just fired accusation after accusation and some of them stuck, though they shouldn’t have. He got screwed and I don’t blame him for coming back and going after all those that did it. I admire his stick to it.
You know, it’s hard to remember all the little things that go down in one of those heated hate-fests.
I appreciate you bringing some of them back to mind.
I’ve seen this type of character assassination used enough times that I can recognize it immediately.
You know they’re lying their asses off, if you just ask yourself a few questions.
What was he charged with?
What was the outcome?
Was what he did against the law?
What do you know about the people who are making the charges, and or trying to capitalize off them?
By the time you’ve reviewed those types of things, it becomes very clear what is going on.
Take care.
Bingo! The female accusations started way early in the overall timeline of most political candidates who later would be accused. Roy was early in this crap, and thus hung out to dry, just in case it was true. He got taken out early, yet the rats still have not ousted some of the accused from office, like Ellison from MN, simply because there were so many accusations over the next many months that viewers got bored, and started to doubt the number and veracity of the accusations, especially when affected the rat politicians.
I agree with your thoughts there.
Look at Biden for instance. Have any of the Leftists come out against his touching, fondling, et al.
The guy has his hands all over married women, children... the other day he reportedly tried to get some very young boy to look him up after an event.
The guy makes me squirm, just thinking of him.
Where did you get the idea that he has a very dicey personal life? From the same people that claimed Kavanaugh was drugging and gang raping women?
She did her nasty smear in New York, where any jury pool would be completely against Moore.
It does for me. Though I think he got a raw deal, and I think that the success of the smear tactics against him caused them to try the same thing on Kavanaugh, I would prefer that Roy simply stayed out.
His candidacy is a distraction from what is important.
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