DiogenesLamp wrote: “That is demonstrably incorrect. He has always been known as a nutcase. The people of Alabama were okay with his nutcasery. They liked his religious stands. What they didn’t like was the entire national media weapon portraying him as a child molesting rapist. *THAT* is what they objected to, not his religious nuttery.”
You do realize you’re making my point that there are crazy republicans who do as much damage to the republican cause. Make all the excuses you want about why Roy Moore lost. He still lost to an easily beatable democrat in perhaps one of the reddest states in the Union. He lost because the people of Alabama thought he was such a nut that Doug Jones was preferable.
They will humiliate and embarrass Republicans that come from more Liberal, Urban states, and they will serve as archetypical "conservatives" for Liberal Smear campaigns, so I certainly see that side of the problem.
But that is not however true for the people of Alabama. Your claim that he will damage other Republicans in other states is not a good reason why the establishment should condone spreading lies about him across nationwide media.
Make all the excuses you want about why Roy Moore lost.
It isn't an "excuse" when it is valid. You can't shoot a man in the foot, and then claim he was a terrible runner, and that's why he lost. That is a deliberate effort to deny the reality of what happened.
He still lost to an easily beatable democrat in perhaps one of the reddest states in the Union.
Under the same circumstances, Donald Trump would have lost Alabama. There is virtually no defense from an all out Airwave assault from the Democrat media weapon, combined with a deliberate shot in the back from your own party.
Very few individuals could come up with a plan to win against the gale force winds of "child molesting rapist."
He lost because the people of Alabama thought he was such a nut that Doug Jones was preferable.
You keep projecting your own opinion onto the people of Alabama. Alabamans did not mind his religiousness. They minded the accusations of child molesting and rape.
Once again, he won in 2012 with over a million votes... Ten Commandment Nuttiness and all. You don't understand the demographics of Alabama to even make such a claim. They are quite happy with his religious nuttery, they just couldn't abide those accusations of child molesting and rape.