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Establishment Republicans Cheer Roy Moore’s Loss in Alabama
Breitbart ^ | 12/12/17 | Sean Moran

Posted on 12/13/2017 4:26:31 AM PST by x1stcav

Several establishment Republicans cheered as the Alabama Senate Republican candidate Judge Roy Moore lost to his Democratic opponent Doug Jones.

Here are some of the establishment Republicans who praised Roy Moore’s loss in the Alabama Senate race on Tuesday:

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Cory Gardner (R-CO) said in a statement, “Tonight’s results are clear – the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. I hope Senator-elect Doug Jones will do the right thing and truly represent Alabama by choosing to vote with the Senate Republican Majority.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 115th; corygardner; ditchmitch; gardner; gope; moore; nrsc; republican; roymoore
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To: MarvinStinson
Look at how many GOPe regulars Trump appointed to vital cabinet posts

My take is that if he didn't appoint GOP establishmentarians to his cabinet, the GOP establishment in Congress would side with Democrats in making sure that no legislation on Trump's agenda would ever make it to the President's desk. I don't like that either, but those seem to be the facts on the ground. That may be why he played ball with them again and endorsed Strange over Moore - the alternative is that the charges against Moore were already an open secret in some circles and he was too much of a risk.

101 posted on 12/13/2017 7:07:16 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: x1stcav

I want nothing more to do with what is called the Republican Party.

What is needed is an American party to represent this country and not K Street.


102 posted on 12/13/2017 7:09:07 AM PST by JayAr36 (Sliding into Socialism daily.)
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To: lodi90
Dems now have their campaign template for 2018 and 2020. High minority turnout, relentless negative ads against GOP, pro athletes campaigning, media carrying their water, etc. Asshats like Gardner won’t be so happy when they use it on GOPe candidates successfully.

Yeah, right. Only in your pathetic dreams. Because it's the GOPe collaboration with the Dems that put Jones over the top.

It's long past time to take out the RINOS, all of them. THEY spent the money to take out the front-runner Mo Brooks. THEY sided with the Democrat-groomed accusers of Moore. THEY threatened to not seat him in the senate.
But more importantly to other senate races: THEY backstab real conservatives. THEY look the other way when Dems commit election fraud. THEY block attempts to purge voter rolls of dead registered voters. It's time to fight fire with the only weapon we have; when we're stuck with a RINO on the ballot in the general, we vote for the Democrat.

It's unpleasant, it's against our natures, but IT'S THE ONLY WAY!
It's what they do to us. IT'S TIME TO SHOVE IT RIGHT BACK INTO THEIR UGLY, ARROGANT, TRAITOROUS FACES! IT'S TIME TO HUNT ALL THE RINOS TO EXTINCTION!
103 posted on 12/13/2017 7:13:59 AM PST by Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
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To: Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues

And meanwhile what happens to the US?


104 posted on 12/13/2017 7:19:43 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: wyowolf

Does it matter?


105 posted on 12/13/2017 7:20:23 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: wyowolf

Votes don’t come with “style points”.


106 posted on 12/13/2017 7:20:52 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Judging by yesterday, I would say so. No one came out to support Crazy Roy... they simply didnt like him. If he had simply gotten just 2/3 of what Trump got he would have won in a landslide...


107 posted on 12/13/2017 7:27:16 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: wyowolf; dfwgator
the question is did you vote FOR TRUMP? or against Hitlary...

Well, both. But if some Republican other than Trump had the nomination, I would have been solely voting against Hillary. Most conservatives who pulled the lever for Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney weren't voting "for" these guys, who were mediocre at their best and terrible most of the time. They were voting against Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and Obama.

I wasn't a fan of Moore's Elmer Gantryism either, but I would have voted against Jones, as you probably would have too.

108 posted on 12/13/2017 7:28:21 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: RinaseaofDs

I’ll go further.

Trump should have never won. That he did was a major failure of a carefully constructed system where in there appeared to be two parties with two ideologies in opposition, there was one party that essentially agreed on almost everything.

That Moore lost last night in a state carried by Trump by 28% is a successful test of a system that ensures mistakes like Trump never happen again.

Elections are too important to leave up to voters.

The appearance of a republic is what both parties are after. They’ll be damned if that’s what they get.


109 posted on 12/13/2017 7:29:43 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: ek_hornbeck

my point is, Trump didnt crash Hitlarys blue wall by getting people to vote against Hitlary... they voted FOR TRump, something they never would have done for Romney or Mclame... I pulled the lever for Mclame and Romney... but i WANTED to for Trump... that was the difference in a lot of other people i suspect.


110 posted on 12/13/2017 7:30:41 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: wyowolf
Voting against someone can be as strong a motive as voting for somebody. I think that nearly any Republican candidate, with the possible exception of Jeb Bush, would have beaten Hillary in 2016. She was not a well-liked candidate even among Democrats. Many of the Bernie Sanders supporters felt that the DNC rigged the game against them in the primaries (which is true), and her shrill, scolding demeanor couldn't possibly have appealed to anyone apart from fellow aging feminist shrews.

However, you may have a point in Jones' case. While conservatives don't like Jones, I doubt they have the same dislike for him as they did for Hillary, so there's less of a motive to go out and vote against him.

111 posted on 12/13/2017 7:40:11 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
I think that nearly any Republican candidate, with the possible exception of Jeb Bush, would have beaten Hillary in 2016.

Oh my God! How much BS will we have to take today. Man what doozie!. LOL You can't be serious?

112 posted on 12/13/2017 7:43:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

True Hitlary WAS hated... but she also got more votes than Zero I believe... so voting against her WAS a factor no doubt... but to me, those people in blue states voted FOR Trump more than against Hitlary...they voted cause they wanted their jobs to come back... thats something to vote FOR... any other R i think wouldnt have fared as well in Blue states...

Jones only looks sane next to Crazy Roy... hopefully him being in a deep red state will temper his voting. We will see what he wants more, to please smucky, or save his own ass... being a politician... I have my suspicions on which he will choose...


113 posted on 12/13/2017 7:45:30 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: central_va

I’m absolutely serious. In case you didn’t notice, Hillary was by far the weakest candidate that the Democrats ran in decades. Even the grassroots of her own party didn’t like her, especially the Bernie-bots. Low turnout among the base would have done her in, while her overwhelming negatives would have motivated conservatives and Republicans to vote against her (almost) no matter who was on the GOP ticket.


114 posted on 12/13/2017 7:46:55 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

If you actually believe that Bush would have beaten Hillary then you are a political idiot.


115 posted on 12/13/2017 7:50:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wyowolf
she also got more votes than Zero I believe

I'd be very surprised if this were true, especially in comparison to the 2008 election where media hype made Obama into a "rock star" and motivated the otherwise politically apathetic late teen/early 20's MTV crowd to vote for him in droves

116 posted on 12/13/2017 7:50:36 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: central_va
If you actually believe that Bush would have beaten Hillary then you are a political idiot.

Before you call me an idiot, work on your own reading skills. I said in my post #111 that just about any Republican with the possible exception of Jeb Bush would have defeated Hillary in 2016. How much more clear could I have made it? Jeb Bush and the Bushes generally are about the only names in politics with as many associated political negatives in the public mind as Hillary, and for very good reasons.

117 posted on 12/13/2017 7:53:57 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Ok i just check she got basically what zero got in 2012... not sure about 08. she still got tons of idiots voting for her... the difference, esp in blue states, i think is people voted FOR Trump...

just checked zero got 69 million in 08 vs 65 in 12...which is what hitlary got...


118 posted on 12/13/2017 7:55:59 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: ek_hornbeck

None of the other candidates would have beaten Hillary. None. Donald rump is a God send and a miracle. You thinking that makes you a political idiot. You missed the political story of the century. You still don’t get it. Cruz was not going to beat Hillary, none of the GOPe swampers were gong to either.. Get over it.


119 posted on 12/13/2017 7:56:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: JayAr36

You still need to vote in the primaries against the incumbent GOPE hack. Still do that, just the f with them.


120 posted on 12/13/2017 7:57:42 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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