That’s all well and good, but Kavanaugh acquitted himself while Moore equivocated and fumbled away the seat.
Maybe things were different back then, but Moore would have been better off saying that and he’s now a changed man than flopping around like a flounder on the deck with his half denial. It killed his candidacy. Trump did everything he could to rescue him anyway, but he can only do so much. Moore can repay the favor by sitting this one out.
Whether or not Moore is a decent guy or whatever is really besides the point. Politics is a profession, and like anything else, you can be a good person but lousy at your job. It’s time to recognize that any Republican who loses statewide in Alabama should find another line of work.
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