Posted on 12/13/2017 6:02:08 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
Politics is a bloodsport...but, it is also a people contact sport. When I learned back a week or so ago, that Judge Roy Moore was not out campaigning in public...I knew this political game for Moore was over or, at least on a dangling, dangerous lifeline.
One of the many major reasons that Democrat, Hillary Clinton lost her POTUS run to Donald J. Trump is that she literally stopped major campaign activity starting in August, 2016...a big, major mistake. Pressing the flesh of voters is an absolute must and, Doug Jones did exactly that many times over.
Roy Moore did exactly the same thing as Clinton...hid in the closet of protection, so he thought was safe & sound, and he would be OK. Not true!!!
POTUS, Donald J. Trump saw the flaws in the Moore campaign, back In September, 2017, when Moore defeated Luther Strange in a runoff election...stating that if Luther Strange had won the runoff the senate seat would be a safe one, ending with a big victory for Luther Strange in the December 12, election.
As much as Trump hates losing the Senate to a Democrat, I'll bet he is relieved that Roy Moore is now not a continuing problem for both him & the entire GOP Caucus.
That and the stupid interview with the little girl. But I think the interview with the little girl really put a face on the allegations and shifted the minds of those willing to give him a pass to vote against him.
Michael Medved used to say that Hillary is the only candidate that can’t beat Trump and Trump is the only candidate that can’t beat Hillary. I saw Moore as a type of trump, only much worse. His biggest draw for me was that he was not the democrat. He was like Trump in that way. Unfortunately, his opponent was not like Hillary.
I was supporting him through the sex scandal stuff, but it was making me queasy. In hindsight, Moore really is too much of a loose canon, even compared to Trump. The R’s may have actually dodged a bullet with this one. Time will tell.
Crazy Roy had an ego... just like Hitlary... they thought they “deserved” to win... that was his undoing... he barely even campaigned in the final weeks... he didnt have to ! He was entitled!!
Did he pull that to throw the election to avoid the embarrassment of not getting seated or expelled?
It took the all the orchestrated animus and hatred of a mostly degenerate nation and frauds in the senate to eke out a dubious result against the man.
This result says more about brazen, honorless, backstabbing republican senators (capitals intentionally omitted) and presstitutes than it does about some campaign wrinkle of Moore’s.
Bama GOP voters are to blame for choosing that nutjob as their candidate. He was an embarrassment.
I may grudgingly agree.
Moore was creepy and divisive, I divested myself of following it closely as I didn’t feel like getting in online fights. That interview was proof his team had no clue....
Crazy Roy.....
Someone commented that maybe he was low on funding because of what that one GOP fund did in pulling it from him. I don’t know if that is fact or not. I would think he still could have kept on making appearances.
Bingo......Crazy Roy was a horrible choice.
it goes to show that Alabama rejected him so soundly... just how crazy do you have to be to lose a R election in Bama....?
This whole thing really isn’t all that difficult to understand. Trump made a huge mistake pulling Sessions out of the Senate and into DOJ. The republican choice for his replacement was a bad candidate who lost. It was just a matter of some really bad personnel choices and moves.
The Republican Establishment has never supported a non-Establishment candidate after they won the primary. We’ve lost races, because of them. You can say Roy Moore is crazy, but he won two primaries.
Moore's interview with the little girl had a definite creepy factor. Eeeew.
The blame rests on the voters of Alabama, IMO. They voted overwhelmingly to nominate Moore over Strange, and then failed to elect what they’d nominated. If Moore gave them an “icky” feeling, they shouldn’t have nominated his sorry ass to start with.
All of that is true, but I’m not sure Trump takes much solace in losing a reliable seat with as many marginal Republicans as there already are in this Congress.
That is exactly right. What in the world was he thinking? Who advised him to do that interview? Talk about tone deaf.
I can’t mention it enough, it seems one of the networks showed he won in 2011 52-48; so in a sense, the writing was on the wall that he would really have to battle to win. I guess he polarizes folks and not to speak negatively of him. It just seems to be the way it is.
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