Posted on 01/07/2019 9:18:22 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Dry Alabama Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devils work, and the state should ban it entirely.
Along with a companion Twitter feed, the Facebook page appeared to be the work of Baptist teetotalers who supported the Republican, Roy S. Moore, in the 2017 Alabama Senate race. Pray for Roy Moore, one tweet exhorted.
In fact, the Dry Alabama campaign, not previously reported, was the stealth creation of progressive Democrats who were out to defeat Mr. Moore the second such secret effort to be unmasked. In a political bank shot made in the last two weeks of the campaign, they thought associating Mr. Moore with calls for a statewide alcohol ban would hurt him with moderate, business-oriented Republicans and assist the Democrat, Doug Jones, who won the special election by a hair-thin margin.
Matt Osborne, a veteran progressive activist who worked on the project, said he hoped that such deceptive tactics would someday be banned from American politics. But in the meantime, he said, he believes that Republicans are using such trickery and that Democrats cannot unilaterally give it up.
If you dont do it, youre fighting with one hand tied behind your back, said Mr. Osborne, a writer and consultant who lives outside Florence, Ala. You have a moral imperative to do this to do whatever it takes.
The discovery of Dry Alabama, the second so-called false flag operation by Democrats in the fiercely contested Alabama race, underscores how dirty tricks on social media are creeping into American politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Your Cadillac has a wheel in the ditch and a wheel on the track...
650,000 Trump-voting Alabamans stayed home.
I’m in Alabama.
Are there any Alabamans who want to meet up in Florence and have “chat” with this turd?
I’m serious.
Exactly!
And the saddest (for our beloved Republic), the Government then used the SAME dossier—the output of Hillary’s smear—to go after Pres. Trump and his people, and it is STILL ongoing!!!
Meanwhile, this opposition research smear has gone on to convict Paul Manafort to prison for rest of his life, and General Flynn and that Greek kid (Pappanduous?)
Yet in their blind Trump hatred, they cannot see the utter folly they’ve ruining upon all of us.
Did Fakebook’s stock take a hit because of this news and if not why not?
Russia Russia Russia
The real threats is godless Communists.
Nobody has accused my fellow Alabamians of being “Roads” Scholars!!! I voted for Judge Moore. Now we are stuck with this stinking liberal, approver of murdering the unborn in the womb, dimocrat, commie, socialist, pig slime, Jones. Just makes me stinking proud that people just vote based on a 30 second sound bite that they heard the last three seconds of. I had tons of people say, “well I ain’t voting for that stinking Moore. Look what he did with those women.” Spoken by a guy that I know has been married at least four times and three wives left him because he was a boozing, pig stinking, cheat himself. Yup. Ain’t well informed votes just great. Thanks fellow state-peoples for voting like a bunch of jackasses that you were in this election. Cheating, lying websites and a lying broad who made up the allegations. Ain’t life grant when the cheats and liars win.
It was obviously set-up early on, to rig the situation, and via the radio trio....they probably gave 50-percent of GOP-to-Jones votes. No one speaks about them now.
The Democrats tried the same thing in the 16 presidential election - then found out that their gal couldnt beat Trump as they had assumed.
If they’re willing to portray themselves as religiou teetotalers then the same Democrats are more than willing to don their old traditional bedsheets and cone hats and put on a fake “right wing rally.”
A “moral imperative to do what it takes?”
What religion is that which says that, essentially the same as “the ends justify the means?”
The INTENT IS precisely, to permanently “RUIN” the United States, and usher in a true global socialist government.
The “folly” is perfectly intentional.
They hate God, and our “God” derived Constitution period!
This is pure strategy to the purely humanistic globalist objective.
Cannot have truly “Sovereign” and powerful US, and simultaneously have a “sovereign” global government. One has to be subjected.
had something to do with that.
Corker... but then democrats were probably assisting.
Well, outraged as we may be about what has already happened in Alabama, we have an ongoing outrage about the Mueller probe continuing basically using the same method of deception to kick off the entire ordeal.
Yet so few Republicans support the right thing, which is to demand the Mueller probe end, since it is entirely based on false pretenses.
Yet very few make this demand. Usually, the GOP-powers-that-be go on about Robert Mueller’s integrity and nobleness—never once answering whether or not the basis of his investigation itself is valid.
THAT in and of itself strikes a deathblow to the Republic.
Criminal Justice used for political means.
Are they thinking if the appease the crocodile he’ll eat them last or not at all? Or are they just dim-witted and stupid? Too timid and afraid? In on the whole thing?
All of the above, actually.
Dear Lord, you sent us a REAL man to help us in Donald Trump. Please send us more REAL men and women to help HIM!
Amen
Thanks reaganaut1. The Demagogic Party engaged in dirty tricks? How nearfetched.
And this will have no impact on the outcome of that election.
Roy Moore was cheated and the Democrats will laugh about it all while they plan to do it again somewhere else.
Why?
Because it worked and even if it gets caught they get to keep what they stole: a US Senate seat.
Seriously, who F’ing cares?
Just stupid online platforms.
If I printed up flyers and passed them out is that illegal to?
Some things people complain about are so retarded.
This could be a crime of “election tampering” so it would be a federal crime. Roy Moore is the one who has to file a complaint with the FBI and FEC.
I think government efforts to suppress lies in campaigns would do more harm than good and violate the 1st Amendment. But people should be aware of dirty tricks that are played so that they don’t fall for them.
the "I won't vote" or "I'll vote third party"..."that'll show em" brigade can't see the forest for the trees...
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