Posted on 02/28/2019 6:11:15 AM PST by C19fan
Roy Moore, a conservative lightening rod who cost the Republican party a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama, is signaling fresh interest in mounting another campaign in 2020, sparking alarm on the right that Democratic Sen. Doug Jones could be gifted another unlikely victory.
Moore, 72, a former state judge, made the rounds at last Friday’s Alabama Republican Party dinner gala. A few days later, a new political action committee run by Moore’s son, Caleb Moore, issued an email fundraising appeal.
Republican insiders, including conservative allies of President Trump, fret that Moore — derailed by sexual assault allegations in a 2017 special election that should have been an easy layup — might divide the party in the primary and advance to a rematch with Jones. On Wednesday, a Moore confidant pointedly declined to rule out that his buddy might run for Senate next year.
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And he’s going to ride that vote to a stronger-than-expected performance in 2020 unless the GOP has its act together in Alabama.
>>>Luther Strange is a corrupt GOPe swamp creature who Mitch McConnell wanted in the Senate.
Yet he voted with the president 100% of the time.
That's an interesting -- and relevant -- point. I'm not sure Moore would have done the same thing.
Perhaps a former AG will decide to run for the Seat.
Roy Moore lost because his own party campaigned against him. Including the highly respected senior senator from his own state who barnstormed the state on election eve to elect a Democrat. Moore was an awful candidate no doubt. But he wins without the GOP depressing turnout. The bottom line is the GOP prefers progressive Democrats to GOP primary winners. It’s that simple.
Yet he voted with the president 100% of the time.
On what? Stinking piles of garbage spending bills? You want to give him a medal for that?
I said here last fall that there's a good chance Roy Moore would NOT have voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
You can't have an unreliable renegade like that in a legislative body when the margins of success or failure are so razor-thin.
>>>He is not a bad candidate. Please give us your evidence to support that conclusion
In his 2012 run for Chief Justice, he got 51.8% of the vote. Mitt Romney took the state with 60.6%.
On what do you base that assertion?
No, he wasn't just a former state judge, he was head of the supreme court of Alabama.
The problem Roy has is that he is the same clear-thinking moral guy we had back a hundred years ago, and he cannot be recognized through all the immoral haze we are living in.
“Roy Moore . . . cost the Republican party a Senate seat.” BS! Mitch McConnell cost the Republicans a Senate seat: McConnell and the Deep State slime machine. Many conservatives still believe Joe McCarthy was wrong. He was wrong in a respect that underestimated the Communist threat.
I for one will be donating to his campaign in hopes he wins. He was screwed last time around by the very corrupt to the very core cocaine Mitch and his cabal of establishment RINO’s.
He could have voted “present”. Love him or hate him, this conservative fights!
He doesn't belong in a legislative body, period. He would have been better off if he had stuck to the judiciary once it became clear that he had no chance of winning a governor's race in Alabama.
Now THIS is a man who knows his limitations and his personality -- even though he doesn't have a lot of fans here on FR:
"I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. Okay? I would be bored to death. Can you imagine me bangin' around that chamber with 99 other people? Asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it. It would be over, everybody. You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That'd be it." -- Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, in response to a question about whether he'd run for a U.S. Senate seat after his term in office ended
Except when it comes to watching a stupid football game in Philadelphia three days before the election, apparently. :-)
That may be, but Roy Moore is OVER now, and needs to move on. Even though the charges against him were almost certainly bogus, he still admitted to dating high-schoolers when he was in his thirties. It's called "throwing everything at him in the hope that something sticks". Something did. Stick a fork in ole Roy.
Mo was my pick during the last Senate primary as well. However he did not fare too well last time. We do need someone like Mo. I don’t think Moore will gain much traction this time around.
He didn’t lose because he went to a baseball game nor did Aiken lose because of bad campaigning- they both lost because the GOP withdrew all support and actively joined the attack on them in an effort to do their usual groveling and scraping at the altar of feminism...In Missoui especially where that anti-Christian-right dolt Danforth had so much influence.
And I say that as a woman.
The only thing worse than a chauvinist pig is a bunch of virtue signaling cwards.
I thought you would come up with some statement Moore might have made about Kavanaugh, or some disagreement he might have had with some rulings that Kavanaugh might have made.
The best you could come up with was that Moore has been “a pain in the ass”.
Fail.
And here we go again with this idiot point. Yeah, by the time of the election, a couple more days of campaigning would have made all the difference. Why he might have found three more voters that hadn't yet made up their minds after months and months of media attack smears against him.
Do you even know anything about how politics works? Do you really think there are any persuadable voters left that close to an election?
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