Congressman Bradley Byrne is running.
Thoughts?
Meh. Establishment guy. I prefer Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh, the PSC Chairwoman. She would knock out Dougie the Douche in a landslide, having already won statewide three times.
Byrne has no real issues, but on name-recognition, I doubt if 10-percent of GOP voters in the state have heard of the guy.
Will Ainsworth (current Lt Gov) is suggested as a strong possibility to run, and has more name recognition around the state. Luther Strange (former temp Senator) has spoken to the idea of running (most folks don’t want him in the race). And there are rumors that the AG of the state (Steve Marshall) is talking about running.
Any GOP guy/gal beyond Sessions, Bentley and Moore...would get 60-percent of the state vote.
I don’t believe that Byrne dated high school girls while in his 30s, nor asserted that blacks were better off during slave days than they are today, so I think that he’d beat Jones in the general. And his voting record is fine, so he’d be unlikely to turn RINO. I’d wait to see who else runs before endorsing him, though.
Of course, I supported Roy Moore in both the primary and the run-off (prior to the reports of creepiness and his putting his foot in his mouth), so what do I know? (For the record, I would have welcomed Gov. Ivey postponing the special election so that Moore could drop out and be replaced by a non-damaged conservative Republican, but when that didn’t happen I obviously supported Moore in the general over the Marxist.)