I’ve never really liked Moore for whatever reason, personality I guess, and I do think he was hit with false accusations although it’s pretty hard to believer there isn’t some truth buried in them somewhere.
But I’ll be a bit kinder to him than you are. He was a very narrow candidate. Obviously conservatives loved him, but that means liberals hated him with a passion. That leaves those in the middle, who might go either way but the reason they’re in the middle is because they are not political junkies and have beliefs that do not follow liberal-conservative boundaries. To them the allegations were a deal breaker - if not to the point they believed he was guilty but clearly to the point that they just stayed home.
Roy Moore is probably a good man, I don’t know him and it’s not for me to judge. But I can assess him and say that he did not have any kind of appeal that cut across party or ideological lines. He’s a polarizing figure and has made his reputation on that basis, which is certainly his right but it isn’t the way to win elections where there are countervailing forces at work. I’m sure many Alabama Republicans just said “Screw it” when they heard their own Senator Shelby say he wasn’t going to vote for Moore. That was a low blow, but that’s what polarizing figures get.
When the leftist traitor Shelby stated that he wasn’t voting for Moore, that made me more determined to vote for Moore.
Shelby isn’t “our own Senator Shelby”. He’s a turncoat swamp creature and I can’t wait to dance on his grave. He’s as bad as McCain and McConnell.
Once a democrat, always a democrat.