“He’s been burning bridges with the GOP for years ... and then has the nerve to complain when they don’t stand up for him.”
I’m not a big fan of Roy Moore and he certainly didn’t do much to help himself... but “eff” the GOP. We all ought to be burning at lot more than bridges with them because they’re a pack of rotten backstabbing cowards. Most of the time they don’t stand up for the president either, and they had to be harangued into timidly supporting Kavanaugh. What s*** show that was, even at the last minute we were still weren’t certain they’d be able to reign in enough potential defectors. The difference between Moore and Kavanaugh (aside from the likelihood that Moore dated legal age teenagers, which I, though I may be in the minority, I personally couldn’t care less about) is that Kavanaugh was willing to fight it tooth and nail. Moore huffed and puffed a couple times and then slinked off into some dark corner. We need conservatives who will stick it to the GOP, and keep sticking it to them until they either grow a spine or get the heck out of the way and let somebody else take up the conservative mantle.
The problem that people should always remember. There are 40%-45% left votes, 40%-45% right votes, 10%-20% “independent” (or votes for the last shiny object that caught their attention before election day!). If you bring in somebody who divides our conservative share & alienates the “independent” we lose! Moore seemed to have accomplished much of that in Alabama before he even ran for the Senate. Listen to the people here from Alabama, Moore is just a poor candidate and stone deaf to the local political environment.
Having said that, I'll point out that a candidate who runs on a political party line should not be surprised when he spends years pissing off the party leadership and they don't support him.
Let's face it ... Moore was an absolutely awful candidate. That guy has "LOSER" written all over him, and his career in elections reinforces that perfectly.