Had either one not happened, Moore would have walked away with it handily. Moore may not have been an awesome candidate, but he was good enough before people meddled with it. Again, he won in 2013. A win is all that is necessary. He had a winning methodology until outsiders threw a monkey wrench into it.
I appreciate your belief that a better candidate could have won this, but I constantly notice when the media attack machine destroys one of our candidates, this is always the claim. "We should have had a better candidate."
The Democrats do not need better candidates, they get by fine with the incompetent sleazeballs they constantly put forth. Why must we have supermen candidates, and they get by with "Jokers and Penguins"?
Well i'll tell ya. The media attack machine doesn't attack them. It only attacks us. Also their party doesn't backstab their slimy candidates, it goes into full tilt support mode.
Bill Clinton is a full fledged F***ing serial rapist, and the entire media/democrat empire denounced anyone who even suggested it.
You say you are a realist, but the constant call for better candidates is unrealistic. The vast majority of people are a little squirrely in one way or another. You just don't get people from central casting, and it's asking too much of the available options to insist on Captain Perfect before you try to win an election.
Stop the media attack machine, and stop the party backstabbing. We have a better chance of controlling those factors than finding those elusive perfect candidates.
Just being real here.
Listen to Moore’s interview with Hannity again and tell me he was a good candidate. I would cede your point if he lost after giving a full throated repudiation of the charges, but that’s not what happened. It’s one thing to complain about our guy getting railroaded. It’s another to complain about it after he helped the left/media tie him down to the train tracks.
I know the media is corrupt and are the communications wing of the DNC. It sucks that the enemy has that advantage, but the enemy can be beaten anyway. The Democrats have no marketable platform. Some extremely high percentage of their caucus comes out of two states: NY and CA. The only way they can win elections is with identity and personal destruction politics, so we shouldn’t be picking candidates who think they can win by running head long into their machine gun nest because it’s not fair that their guys don’t have similar troop movement worries.
We can pick fantastic, God-fearing Christan reps - we have quite a few of them in Congress already, but they at least have to have the political IQ to not leave themselves vulnerable to a hostile media that is always looking for opportunities to frag them.