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Roy Moore's Alabama
NYT ^ | 10 Dec 2017 | Howell Raines

Posted on 12/10/2017 2:42:14 PM PST by Rummyfan

ARLEY, Ala. — I recently drove the back roads from Birmingham for over two hours before I finally found a sign for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, outside the Arley Coffee Shop. A retired coal miner who frequents what the cashier called the “liars’ table” put it to me in the familiar Winston County way. “The women,” he said of Mr. Moore’s accusers, were lying to make him look like a sexual predator. “Groping,” he added, “used to be all right anyway.”

The Free State of Winston is Alabama’s most distinctive political culture, and now it may be the center of America’s current political convulsion. Winstonians tend to go to one side or another in a big way, and they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks. According to one historical account, the residents voted 515 to 128 for an antebellum legislator who promised to oppose the Ordinance of Secession that took Alabama out of the Union in 1861. Today they believe President Trump is an untarnished Republican savior and are cheering his endorsement of Mr. Moore.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; howellraines; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; roymoore; winstoncount
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To: Rummyfan

It’s all simple, really. The Democrats want a Democrat majority in the Senate, and one of their main tactics is to use false allegations to get what they want.


41 posted on 12/10/2017 6:59:51 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Rummyfan
Gee, I can't imagine why those of us in "flyover country," the nonredeemable "basket of deplorables, the great unwashed bitter clingers, don't trust anything published in the old grey hag.

They have a long, proud history of publishing lies, and supporting communists. After all, to this day they refuse to denounce the reporting of Walter Duranty.

Mark

42 posted on 12/10/2017 7:04:54 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Rummyfan

Last time I was in that area we got to go to Looney’s Tavern and see the play about the Free State of Winston. Great fun!

And these are the people that were willing to defy the whole state to stand up for their beliefs.....kinda like Judge Moore.


43 posted on 12/10/2017 7:44:57 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Did the the New York Times ever do an article on “Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts”
How many liberal politicians liberal cities/states have gotten reelected after the deviant behavior they’ve engage in and sometimes even illegal activities. I bring up Marion Barry on other posts, but it’s true. Do you think Connors would be reelected if he didn’t get forced out into retirement? Damn right he would be. His constituency will put him right back in the office.

NYT = vacuous Manhattan trash.


44 posted on 12/10/2017 9:34:15 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Rummyfan

>>>plausibly accused pedophile<<<

Yeah, that Innocent until proven Guilty stuff only works for Democrats.


45 posted on 12/10/2017 9:46:19 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: del4hope

Ya think? So do I. Even in my neighborhood, there are far more empty yards than Jones signs up.


46 posted on 12/11/2017 11:39:58 AM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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