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Trump Tweets About Roy Moore
Twitter ^ | 5/29/19 | Donald J. Trump

Posted on 05/29/2019 12:14:58 PM PDT by mbrfl

Republicans cannot allow themselves to again lose the Senate seat in the Great State of Alabama. This time it will be for Six Years, not just Two. I have NOTHING against Roy Moore, and unlike many other Republican leaders, wanted him to win. But he didn’t, and probably won’t.....

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More ...If Alabama does not elect a Republican to the Senate in 2020, many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost, including our Pro-Life victories. Roy Moore cannot win, and the consequences will be devastating....Judges and Supreme Court Justices! 8,678 replies 15,066 retweets 60,477 likes

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 2020; al2020; alabama; douchejones; dougjones; gopprimary; indianau; ljeancamp; moore; roy; roymoore; trump; waronmoore
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To: MountainWalker
Politics is a profession, and like anything else, you can be a good person but lousy at your job.

The politics of this races was especially unique.

In 2017, the Democrats were coming off of a near win in the neighboring Georgia 6th House District special election between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff. They were desperate to set the narrative that the Trump victory was not a mandate if they could show a deep-red Georgia district that had been Republican since Newt Gingrich won the seat in 1978 would now go Democrat, supposedly as buyer's remorse for electing Trump.

Democrats wanted to set the table for a wave election in 2018. Hollywood poured record-breaking money into this race, but Handel won 52-48.

They tried to repeat this narrative in Alabama at the end of the year in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. They had to resort to forged yearbooks and specious memories to do it, but this time the Democrats succeeded.

Handel also lost her seat in Georgia in the 2018 election.

-PJ

61 posted on 05/29/2019 1:45:04 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Alberta's Child

He already defied federal leftist tyrants in robes the first time around, was removed for exercising his Constitutional rights, and was then returned to his office again. That was not the issue with the voters.

This time, it was a deliberate, coordinated character assassination with unproven claims and the corrupt, establishment GOP working to make sure he wouldn’t win the special election by any means. They wanted the Democrat to win. It was that simple. I don’t believe Jones’s win was legitimate by any stretch.


62 posted on 05/29/2019 1:51:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: DiogenesLamp

You don’t think POTUS gets wind of these things before the general public hears about them. Don’t be naïve. And Trump’s statements before hand made general references to his concern that Moore might have a hard time getting elected.

Whatever attack the left would have tried to use on Luther Strange would have paled in comparison to what they trotted out with Moore. Moore had a history of gaffs and less than flattering sound bites, the kind of thing the left just eat up.


63 posted on 05/29/2019 1:53:47 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Will88

There was nothing Constitutional or moral about what Wallace did. Chief Justice Moore was acting within his rights and was doing the Constitutional AND moral thing. There is simply no comparison.


64 posted on 05/29/2019 1:54:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Alberta's Child

Unreliable on what issues exactly ?


65 posted on 05/29/2019 1:55:58 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
There was also some cheap GOP virtue signaling going on over the photo of Al Franken pretending to grope a sleeping woman's breasts.

One of the things that Republicans do to win the favor of Democrats is deal to keep the status quo. They figured that if the Democrats were going to abandon Franken, then Republicans had to do the same with Moore, even though Moore didn't do anything wrong. He was simply a convenient sacrifice to Republican favor-groveling.

-PJ

66 posted on 05/29/2019 1:56:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s when you know you’re dealing with an awful candidate. A guy who spends the entire campaign rallying support FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM ANYWAY has no business running for public office.


67 posted on 05/29/2019 1:56:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: grania

Well, if I agreed that the Deplorable Agenda was all about losing on principle, I would agree with. That’s the old way that got us into this mess. Trump is about winning. Losing gracefully and on principle is not what he’s about. And thank God for that.

Bannon and most of the conservative ‘leaders’ up until Trump were for all intents and purposes, controlled opposition. Losing on principle gets us no where. And perhaps that’s what the wanted all along. If you want to keep following the pearl clutching conservative leaders who got us absolutely nothing for so many years, be my guest. Trump’s election proves most of the voters prefer Trump’s strategy and priorities.


68 posted on 05/29/2019 2:02:23 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Political Junkie Too

Frankly, both parties are in bed with one another (Dems & GOP Establishment). Anyone who freaks out the establishment is the candidate to support. Losing their $hit over Moore proved how right he was to be in the Senate. Somebody who had the balls to stand up to this corrupt federal government and their homofascist, anti-constitutional edicts.


69 posted on 05/29/2019 2:02:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
All of them. The guy actually said he wouldn’t support Mitch McConnell for Majority Leader — even though NO REPUBLICANS WERE CHALLENGING HIM. That’s the kind of brain-dead stupidity that accomplishes nothing in an election campaign.

Moore should just go away — because he doesn’t know the first thing about how to work in a legislative body.

70 posted on 05/29/2019 2:04:36 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: mbrfl
Roy Moore lost because the maniacs were allowed to write the agenda. The establishment Republican Party chose to sacrifice that seat rather than embrace someone who is truly a conservative.

Maybe the slime that controls the party will support conservatives rather than lose the US Senate majority. Traitor Ryan did nothing to save the majority in the House.

71 posted on 05/29/2019 2:08:00 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: mbrfl
I voted for Mo Brooks in the AL GOP 2017 primary. In my eyes Moore was damaged goods by being removed from the ALSC 2X! I voted for Roy Moore in the general election.

Moore did not campaign that last weekend before the election. He went to a U.S. Military Academy football game. I never saw anything come of his supposed lawsuits against his female accusers. His time is past, and I hope he realizes it.

I have voted against U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby in the last 2 AL GOP primaries in which he was a candidate. He was a DemonRat before he switched to the GOP. His voting record on GOP issues has been weak for years. He's in his 80's now. Stabbing Roy Moore in the back just adds to my contempt of Shelby.

As stated upthread, Mo Brooks has, for the moment at least, withdrawn from the primary for U.S. Sen. Doug Jones seat. Reading between the lines, one gets the impression that he thinks he is just too unknown in LA (Lower Alabama). He remains my preference.

The apparent GOP frontrunner is U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, a RINO who is in the pocket of the AEA (Alabama Education Association). Only as a last resort would I vote for him.

72 posted on 05/29/2019 2:15:50 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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Thank you and remember, Roy Moore sued and had proof election machines were tampered with. However, a Democrat judge threw the suit out.

If no one stops it this next election DNC will be a shoe-in in AL with their combination of election machine tampering, smear tactics and whatever else they come up with.
73 posted on 05/29/2019 2:17:31 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Alberta's Child

A Senate Majority Leader isn’t elected in the same way as House Speaker. It wouldn’t matter if he withheld a vote in caucus. Other than that, what would he vote against ? Saying “all of them” is absurd. He’s not a leftist, so he’s not going to support a leftist agenda.


74 posted on 05/29/2019 2:19:27 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Manic_Episode

“Roy could win if it weren’t for “conservatives”.”

No. There are more than just conservatives in Alabama. There are moderates, LIV’s and even a few liberals. They are the ones who voted against Roy Moore in higher than average numbers.

There are plenty of conservatives in Alabama who moderates, and LIV’s would vote for. They are the ones that were susceptible to the smears against Roy Moore, not conservatives. And they’re the ones that made the difference. What’s the definition of insanity? Repeating the same thing and expecting a different result. Getting a pro-Maga conservative elected to the Alabama Senate seat is the hill to die on -not getting Roy Moore elected. If Roy Moore thinks it should be the other way around then I have to question his priorities and his character.


75 posted on 05/29/2019 2:23:52 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What Moore did was the political equivalent of charging a machine gun nest over open ground with no cover fire. Such actions accomplish nothing. He was forcing issues that were not going to be decided by state courts.

The only way to fight those issues is through national elections for reps, senators and presidents who will support laws and federal judges who share such values.


76 posted on 05/29/2019 2:24:32 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
My suspicion is that Moore wouldn’t have even showed up for half the votes anyway — and would have been a tiresome, uncooperative pain in the ass when he did.

He would have been the Senate version of Justine Amash — the “principled conservative” who votes with Nancy Pelosi most of the time ... and just claims to be doing it for a different reason.

77 posted on 05/29/2019 2:30:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Will88

As I said above, his actions were heroic. We need more people like him that stand up to unconstitutional, bad and vile rulings and edicts from the tyrannical Derp State class.


78 posted on 05/29/2019 2:33:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Too risky!
The Senate seat is too important.


79 posted on 05/29/2019 2:37:05 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Alberta's Child

Your suspicions have no basis in reality. If he were to be a leftist flake or loon like Amash, that would’ve been reflected in his prior judicial service. He would’ve been an excellent, pro-Constitutional and anti-establishment Conservative Senator. The only pain he would’ve been was to corrupt RINOs, and we need as many “pains” as possible.


80 posted on 05/29/2019 2:37:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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