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GOP's Shelby played key role in Alabama Democrat's victory
Associated Press ^ | Dec 13, 2017 6:00 PM EST | Matthew Daly

Posted on 12/13/2017 3:48:28 PM PST by Olog-hai

Credit six-term Republican Sen. Richard Shelby for Democrat Doug Jones’ shocking win in Alabama, senators from both parties said Wednesday.

Shelby, Alabama’s senior senator and the state’s most influential official, publicly opposed GOP nominee Roy Moore and declared before the election that ”the state of Alabama deserves better” than a former judge accused of sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.

A former Democrat, Shelby, 83, announced weeks before the election that he had already cast an absentee ballot for another, unspecified Republican, even as President Donald Trump and other prominent state Republicans stood up for Moore.

“I give the Alabama voters a lot of credit for the courage in rejecting Roy Moore’s candidacy and I think Sen. Shelby deserves a lot of credit for speaking out and encouraging people to write-in a Republican candidate” other than Moore, said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who also opposed Moore.

“I think it’s very telling that there were more write-in ballots cast than the margin of victory,” Collins said Wednesday. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; blueorigin; collins; douchejones; dougjones; gopestablishment; jeffbezos; jones; moore; porkbarrel; richardshelby; rinos; roymoore; shelby; ula
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

So is Cochran. So are the Barbours.

There’s a slew of political hacks who changed parties from democrat to republican for convenience during the Reagan era.

They changed for convenience to keep their positions and perks. Their only allegiance is to me, myself, and I.


21 posted on 12/13/2017 4:06:03 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Olog-hai

The ‘pubs weren’t in charge of the Senate before this and were cowering in fear before the corrupt thugs such as mccain,graham, collins and murkowski. Now that jones, the aborion and amnesty candidate is elected, you will only see kabuki theater as they tell you to give more $$ so they can advance a “conservative” agenda that looks no different from the marx-o-crats. There will be grate (sic) drama as the aging queens parade back and forth on the floor of the senate to vomit out their lies before cucking to schumer, et al.

I predict here and now that the dims take the senate in 2018 and close enough in the house that they will control that, too with their willing RINO allies.


22 posted on 12/13/2017 4:06:25 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
“Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”

— Communist goal #15
I would say “Uniparty” is the more correct epithet. The evidence is just too overwhelming, and they aren’t even attempting to conceal it anymore.
23 posted on 12/13/2017 4:06:57 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Burn in Hell, Shelby. I wish McCain’s brain tumor were contagious.


24 posted on 12/13/2017 4:08:07 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: Olog-hai

We all need to tell the Republican party to go pound sand every time they call for donations.


25 posted on 12/13/2017 4:09:39 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Olog-hai; All

Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding Senate follies, patriots are reminded that the states can repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments yesterday if they wanted to.

Or do patriots regard exercising their 1st Amendment-protected speech by complaining about the unconstitutionally big federal government as the ultimate example of their pursuit of happiness?


26 posted on 12/13/2017 4:11:25 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai

>>Thought the Dixiecrats were supposed to be “blue dogs” and not the commie-type “yellow dog” Dem?

Sadly, no. The Dixiecrats were the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act and every other civil rights movement, so they left the Democrat party and became Republicans who accepted them because it gave the GOP seats (and racism wasn’t really considered a bad thing in those days), and that gave the Dems the ability to claim that we are the racists for all time.


27 posted on 12/13/2017 4:11:25 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Lera

I remember a few years ago Hannity talking against the notion of a “third party” and instead pushing the GOP-e, with the claim we needed a “revitalized second party”. He doesn’t use that rhetoric these days.


28 posted on 12/13/2017 4:12:06 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Shelby was a Democrat who voted against Robert Bork.


29 posted on 12/13/2017 4:12:07 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Olog-hai

We should have formed a new party the day after Romney’s loss to Obama in 2012. Romney choked, but to me, it was not an act. Like McCain before him, we had nothing to fear from Obama.

We were screaming about Obama, but the GOP was like, it is all OK, don’t get hysterical.

We gave them the House in 2011, the Senate in 2015 and the White House in 2017. None of Trump’s agenda has been passed, and none of them defend their own President, while he fights alone against the media and the Dems.

F all of them!

We have lost 5 years.

It will take time, but the GOP can go to hell as far as I am concerned. They need to go the way of the Whigs.

Let’s see if they get a tax bill passed this year.

You know the vote will be oh-so-close, with the usual suspects getting ready to torpedo the whole damn thing.


30 posted on 12/13/2017 4:18:29 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: rockinqsranch

Your post is spot on. The let Gloria Allred pick their Senator for them.

The correct decision was to vote for Moore, if anything was actually proved he could have been replaced with a Conservative.

But they went ahead a voted in an enemy of the President.


31 posted on 12/13/2017 4:19:17 PM PST by crusher2013
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks “dick”.


32 posted on 12/13/2017 4:22:01 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah. Nothing “former” about him.


33 posted on 12/13/2017 4:26:21 PM PST by Regulator
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To: exit82

Let’s can the vote fraud talk. We have a very good secstate and voter Id. Alabama is much better than most states.


34 posted on 12/13/2017 4:36:40 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: 6ppc

The numbers don’t make sense.

Believe what you want.

I believe there was vote flipping in the machines.

A state where the GOP outnumbers Dems 2-1, and only 50% of the GOP 2016 comes out, but 92% of the Dems comes out?

Roy Moore was not an unknown in AL, and the charges were all debunked.

Alabamans are not stupid—they knew what was at stake.

And they would not vote to allow a babykiller to take office in their name.

Not Alabama—maybe other states.

This was vote fraud in the counting, plain and simple.

And the Dems are masters at it.

And since the GOP wanted the same result as the Dems, the state courts would not even all something so routine as preserving the electronic images of the ballots.

There’s a tell right there.


35 posted on 12/13/2017 4:46:26 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Dogbert41

following excerpt from LS mail, and is thought provoking.


Moore was a really, really bad candidate.
How bad? In 2016 (yes, a presidential election year) Shelby won with 1.335m votes (!!) That means Moore was 685,000 below Shelby. “Yeah, but that’s a presidential election year.” OK, how about 2010? Shelby won that year with 967,00 to 515,000. So Moore underperformed by 317,000 and Jones overperformed by about 120,000.

The only thing you can say about this is the Moore managed to get MASSIVE numbers of Rs to stay home.

Some was the “pedophilia” claim, which, once he got labeled, he could never shake. But his crazy comments about “family life” being “better” in slave times, or homosexuality being made illegal (and wouldn’t say whether homosexuals should be executed [!!]), well, there’s no hope with comments like those.


With all this said, I would still have preferred Moore over the hard liberal asshat Jones.


36 posted on 12/13/2017 4:47:35 PM PST by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years = REAL cheap labor express)
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To: Olog-hai

a former DemocRat.. calls kettle black.. Film at 11


37 posted on 12/13/2017 4:47:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: exit82

But the ballots are saved, correct?


38 posted on 12/13/2017 4:48:41 PM PST by deport
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To: exit82

I think a lot are under the delusion that somehow Jones will be a moderate, or even conservative when he gets to DC.

The reality is, when Chuckie says, “Jump!” Jones will ask, “How High?”


39 posted on 12/13/2017 4:49:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai; All

In the event, I would most likely decline to vote for McConnell, Shelby, absolutely McCain the egotist, and Flake. Murkowski, Collins, Graham in the running. (not a complete list)

Swamp establishment Repubs suk; they’re worse than the (not so honest) opposition.


40 posted on 12/13/2017 4:49:20 PM PST by A strike (Television is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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