Posted on 12/14/2017 9:56:33 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Senate Republicans breathed a big sigh of relief Tuesday night when Roy Moore went down to defeat in the Alabama special election -- even though it halved their already razor-thin majority. Alabama voters rejected a man who was totally unfit to serve as U.S. senator, not just because of numerous allegations that he preyed on young girls when he was a local district attorney in his 30s but because his reverence for the Constitution was as phony as his 10-gallon hat.P
But the race might have turned out differently had it not been for the courage of my home state's junior senator, Colorado's Cory Gardner, who announced that the National Republican Senate Committee, which he leads, was pulling its financial support after The Washington Post printed stories detailing Moore's alleged abuse. The Senate Leadership Fund, run by former members of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's staff, followed suit, drying up funds for the Moore campaign and signaling to donors that contributing to Moore was toxic. The Republican National Committee briefly froze its joint fundraising efforts on Moore's behalf but jumped back aboard the Moore train after President Donald Trump, eight days before the election, tweeted, "We need Republican Roy Moore to win." Once Moore lost the race, however, Trump pretended he was never in Moore's camp, reminding everyone he had supported Moore's runoff opponent in the GOP primary, Luther Strange, because Moore wouldn't "be able to win the General Election."
Money can't always win an election with a bad candidate, but had the NRSC and other Republican political action committees poured the $5 million they could have into the race during the last weeks of the election, Moore might have squeaked through. Despite the serious and credible allegations against him, Moore still only lost the vote by 1.5 percentage points. White women overwhelmingly voted for Moore -- 63 percent, according to exit polls -- including a slim majority of college-educated white women. But as surprising -- shocking, given the allegations against Moore -- as those numbers might be, they reflect lower support than Republican candidates usually garner in Alabama. Had Moore done as well among all white voters as Republicans in previous elections, he'd be riding his horse up to the Capitol, which is why the decision by Sen. Gardner and other Republicans who put country before party mattered.
Gardner wasn't alone among courageous Republicans. The senior senator from Alabama, Richard Shelby, announced just two days before the election that he had cast his absentee ballot for a write-in candidate because he couldn't vote for Moore. Sens. John Boozman of Arkansas, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Steve Daines of Montana, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dean Heller of Nevada, Mike Lee of Utah, John McCain of Arizona, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined Gardner and Shelby in unequivocally coming out against Moore. Other Republicans said the allegations -- if true -- were disqualifying but fell short of saying that voters should reject Moore outright.
This was an important test in the era of Trump. The president is the leader of his party, but Gardner and others showed that they can make their own decisions based on the evidence and their convictions. For years, the GOP has presented itself as the values party. But with Trump's election, many in the party have been put in a bind. Trump's history -- including allegations of his groping and demeaning women, not to mention his own words on tape that he could "grab them by the (genitals)" -- has cast doubt on whether the Republican Party represents family values anymore. Maybe the courage of Republican senators who rejected Moore's candidacy will usher in a new commitment to character in the party.
Gardner represents the future of the Republican Party, not its past. If Republicans are to have any hope of winning young voters, women (outside of whites in the Deep South) and larger shares of Hispanics and blacks, it needs to turn its back on the Roy Moores of the party and follow the leadership of the Cory Gardners.
Somehow, Linda Chavez continues to perfect the art of irrelevance
It seems all the RINOs are the ones named in this article as coming out against Moore. They identified themselves as The Enemy and firm members of the swamp. Disgusting slimy garbage are they.
She sounds like one of Hugo’s relatives.
Whomever is keeping the sell out swamp creature French Revolution II list please make sure this woman is in the top 1000.
I used to have some respect for her. Now, after reading this screed, not so much.
It seems she has "grown" since those days.
Throughout Moore’s campaign I had been posting the following, here in FR’s which turned out to be an exercise in frustration and futility. It was a defense centered on those false claims where I was urging members to copy and get the word out. It went ignored. The result is Chavez’s vicious disgusting diatribe. It’s my hope that Moore follows this up by taking this into the courts proving his innocence
END THOSE DISGRACEFUL LIES ABOUT ROY MOORE
Never Trumpers, drive by media, as well as TV and radio talk hosts were having a field day ignoring the fact that all of the Roy Moore accusers at the time (40 years ago) were of the age of legal consent. Including the one claiming when she was 14* years old. For her accusations are the juiciest. All of which Moore denied. Because they suggested and Moore was actually accused by a group with a very serious charge of being a “pedafile”.and much later that included Illinois GOP governor Bruce Rauner who called Moore that on a early am Ray and John WLS talk show 11/28 ..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3603749/posts *that claim disproved see links below.
A result after the above as those false charges which were being gleefully reported and dwelled on by CNN and the media alphabet soup, as well as never Trumpers. In a touchy feel-ly manner. As if it came off of a never given or made police report which requires a sworn complaint.
All the accusations against Moore originate and are quoted from media sources which support positions like : Abortion, gender sex reclassification, gay marriage, and nullification of religious influence on culture. All of which are solidly opposed by candidate Roy Moore.
Despite that fact and that it has been uncovered that his accusers are working for the Perversion Party and that their accusations are false and politically motivated. Much of it was revealed here in Free Republic by members seeking the facts. The drivebys and the nevers media are not reporting this. but are mentioning one accuser is a “Republican” then when examined turns out to be questionable. After getting the facts posted here why not copy this and email it around and don’t forget to include talk show hosts .
What is disgraceful and worse yet even though these accusations have been solidly refuted frequently reported here through Free Republic reporting sources made by volunteers. The general public relying on media “news” venues including talk show hosts and were not being told what’s been uncovered. .
Bill Cunningham on his Sunday 9 to 12 pm show 11/19 who consistently goes off half cocked never brings up the forged yearbook or the backgrounds on Moore’s accusers but announces he thinks Moore was attracted to teens of consenting age and didn’t do anything illegal.
Ben ? Shapiro substituting for Mark Levine on 11/22 proclaimed he wouldn’t vote for either if he was voting on the Alabama race even though he admitted he knew about the forgery but dismissed it. .
Here is a background on 5 accusers. One works for the perverts that one knows the one who claimed she was 14*. But was actually 16 at the time ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3603606/posts
Alred charge : Grad book signature a forgery; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3604591/posts link shows someone named Roy or Ray signed it.Then Moore’s last name was added to it in a blue colored ink. His legal secretary at the time he was a Circuit Court Judge declared it a forgery because her initials; DA, appeared with his signature in that year book. Because she would verify his signature Moore / DA /date only on his court rulings .Which is what that forgery was copied from .http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3608349/posts
It’s been reported that CNN reproduced and showed the page in question in one colored ink; black.
Disciplined ex Gasden police officer Lt Gary accusation claiming that Moore was banned from a local shopping center for skirt chasing cheerleaders and other charges were politically motivated and are lies.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3607059/posts
http://www.britebart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/ (from post by texas fossil) .
If not for the millions of Republican dollars via Mitch “bitch” McConnell poured into the primary the likely Republican nominee would have been Mo Brooks, a hard core constitution-list and not part of the Washington Swamp. He would have have won the election by 15% or more.
Question? Why in the hell should the RNC be involved in a primary in any state? Their job is to help elect the Republican candidate that wins the primary in each state. It is not their job to determine the candidate in the primary.
McConnell and McConnell only is the cause of this defeat. He wanted a Washington Republican Swamp Creature in the form of Luther Strange. He got a Swamp Creature but even worse than Luther Strange. Mitch McConnell and he only is responsible for a democrat Swamp Creature now elected from Alabama.
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In the past I did contribute to the RNC. I have not done such for a few years. My contributions today are even more generous than past to the RNC. I only contribute to individual campaigns of those that reflect my political ideology.
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