Posted on 03/27/2018 6:50:45 PM PDT by T Ruth
Just saw this on Twitter:
#ThePersistence
Verified account @ScottPresler 13m13 minutes ago
VICTORY: Congratulations to Rex Reynolds on his win in Alabama's 21st House District!
This is a district that Doug Jones won with 55% of the vote. Thank you to everyone who voted.
#AL21 #HD21 21 replies 176 retweets 405 likes
Perzackly.
Well, I guess this means that McConnell allied RINO PACs didn’t spend millions opposing Rex Reynolds.
This is great.
Thank you for posting this.
OMG it's like people are brainwashed or something! When Moore won in 2012, he had over a million votes! He wasn't a bad candidate in 2017, he was a candidate that was attacked and destroyed by the combine efforts of the Democrat media Weapon and deliberate Republican backstabbing.
Without the media repeating lies about him, and without the Republican party officials urging everyone to either stay home or vote for someone else, Moore would have won that race.
I'm noticing a pattern. Richard Mourdock, George Allen, Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell, and Chris McDaniels all seem to be "bad candidates" after the RINO faction of the Washington DC Uniparty finishes stabbing them in the back by supporting the Democrat media narratives about them.
You know what these candidates also had in common? They were going to oppose a continuation of the Washington DC spending/influence party that we call a "government."
Democrats constantly say and do incredibly stupid things, but their party never sells them out (nor does the media attack them) as "bad candidates."
The MSM won’t care - probably won’t cover it...
That, and Richard Shelby got on national television and urged the people of Alabama to "write in" some other candidate's name. Alabama had a record 22,000 or so "write in" votes, which is exactly the amount which would have won the election for the Republican candidate.
The National party pulled funding, which of course reinforced the impression that Moore was "guilty" of the accusation of child molestation and attempted rape. Jeff Flake, (may someone knock all of his teeth out) made a very public and national news getting display of writing a check to the Democrat opponent.
Moore was advised not to campaign because it was clear that the leftest forces operating the smear campaign had intended to use agents provocateurs to harass and intimidate him at any campaign events towards the end. Had he been appearing in public, the enemy would have made a publicity spectacle of it.
Republican wins special House election: silence.
Finally some good news on a Tuesday night. :D
All valid and correct. Bizarro world.
1. Roy Moore was never too "flawed" to be in the same body that housed the Kennedys, Robert Byrd and Robert Menendez, among many other sleazy crooks of both parties. He would have been the straightest guy there. He was never a pedo or a child molester - he dated young women, often with the consent of their parents. 2. This was the clumsiest political hit in history. He still would have won in a walk if the traitorous GOP had supported him. Hope Richard Shelby burns in hell, soon, for his part. 3. Moore did run a poor campaign, in many ways like the hildebeast. He thought it was in the bag so did not really campaign. It should have been in the bag. Suspect he had very poor advice, knowing who his chief political advisor was. Again, the party could have stepped in and helped, but did not. 4. The GOP willingly tossed this seat to hurt the President. Is it beyond reason to think they are willing to toss the midterms as well?
When Moore won in 2012, he had over a million votes! He wasn’t a bad candidate in 2017,
Doug Jones will be gone when he doesn’t have a retard like Moore as an opponent.
his predecessor barely squeaked through the first time, too:
https://ballotpedia.org/Jim_Patterson_(Alabama)
died of a heart attack
“Moore was a lousy candidate. He won by 4% in 2012. Romney, the Yankee Mormon heretic, won AL by 22.4% on the same ballot. Moore somehow creates this intense desire among voters who normally vote GOP to pull the lever for the other guy.”
Amen to all that. The key ingredient is that Roy Moore built his whole image around this “holier than thou” ten commandments religious guy. Then there are these embarrassing accusations and Moore does a lousy job of defending himself.
Sure — some might say it was much ado about nothing and he broke no laws etc. Doesn’t matter. This was an election - not a trial. It looks pretty trashy when a 30 year old dates teenagers. Rightly or wrongly he was viewed as a former pervert and a religious hypocrite.
I live in Alabama and I can tell you that no one was going around saying they were voting for Roy Moore. He became an embarrassment. It had little to do with what the GOP was saying, doing or not doing. It was a local election and Alabamians were disgusted with the whole Roy Moore mess.
Roy Moore was a lousy candidate.
Amen! Richard Shelby outed himself as a Swamp-dwelling traitor when he stabbed Roy Moore in the back by announcing that he would vote for the Democrat against the GOP nominee. All this "flawed candidate" nonsense is designed to rinse the blood from Richard Shelby's hands. Richard Shelby is a UniParty man.
Blue Wave!
I guess the media didn’t want to watch the results and national attention to this one since it might not fit with a desired narrative... interesting
Well now that's just misleading. By this time, most people *HATED* that incompetent moron Barack Obama, and they were highly motivated to get rid of the stupid bastard. A lot of people don't give a crap about down ballot candidates, but you are portraying it as if they had disdain for Moore, which they did not. Moore got more than 50% of the vote, and Romney got 60% of the vote. Romney only got 10% more votes than did Moore, and as I said, there are a lot of people who don't give a crap about down ballot candidates. (this is pretty much the same in most elections in different states as well.)
The very next down ballot Republican candidate only got slightly more votes than did Moore, and this is more representative of how state voters usually regard down ballot candidates.
To make matters worse for Moore, a huge chunk of the Alabama judiciary signed a letter that was published in Several prominent Alabama newspapers endorsing the Democrat candidate running against Moore. A lot of the "establishment" office holders in Alabama didn't like Moore, and so they did what they could to torpedo him.
Moore somehow creates this intense desire among voters who normally vote GOP to pull the lever for the other guy.
No he did not, but people keep repeating this falsehood over and over and now they've got a lot of people who don't do their homework believing this narrative, which has only been put forth to advance the establishment attitude against reform candidates.
In 2012, the voters gave Moore almost as many votes as they gave the next down ballot candidate in that election. If your claim were true, the next guy ( I forgot his name) would have been way ahead of Moore, but in fact he was just very slightly ahead of Moore.
Stop reading your own personal dislikes into your analysis. There are a lot of people who didn't like Moore anyways, and they are trying to convince people that their disdain was shared when in fact this is completely contradicted by the 2012 ballot results from Alabama. I downloaded them and ran the numbers. How about *YOU* down load them, run the numbers, and show some objectivity?
The forces that run Washington DC don't want their spending party and influence peddling disrupted. It was obvious to all of them that Moore would refuse to play their usual game, so they wanted someone who was compliant.
It's what they always say when they work with the liberals to stop reform candidates. They hate "Tea Party" candidates worse than they do Democrats!
Those that have been there for awhile become co-opted into the favor reward system of that place, and they don't want anyone coming in to rock the boat!
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