It’s great to see that the level of thought here at FR has leveled out at “The Voice”...
So far, I see that Judge Moore is a “poor candidate” because he doesn’t talk out both sides of his mouth; is a stupid loser because the GOPe threw their support behind the Democrat in the last election cycle; That the false accusations against him in the last cycle (am I the only one who noticed that all of that seemed to disappear once he was defeated in the election?) disqualify him from running...
His views are aligned with the majority(?) of voters in Alabama it would seem. And since the office he’s running for is to represent those voters in the Senate, I’m not sure how his being a poor interview subject is relevant...
Roy Moore has been smeared by the leftists AND the surrender faction of the GOP, as clearly indicated by your collective responses....
I don’t vote in Alabama. If I did, Roy Moore would get my vote.
The people want Barrabas.
You know what also disappeared after Moore lost the election? His promise to sue all his accusers for slander. Why is that, do you think?
His views are aligned with the majority(?) of voters in Alabama it would seem.
Apparently not, since a majority of Alabama voters went against him last time around.
As long as Alabama’s Senate seat is winnable, Roy Moore should not be nominated. I too felt the accusations were over the top, but the fact remains he’s damaged goods. Alabama voters said in 2017 they didn’t want him, and even went to the point of electing a liberal democrat to show it.
We have a bigger fight than Roy Moore “proving something.” We need the damned seat. That is the bottom line.
Well, the way I see it, he's not articulate, meaning he was unprepared. Both stemming from his lack of interest. Why the lack of interest? He thought he could walk into the job because he's a Republican. He lost because the Republicans weren't interested in voting for a person so unprepared for the job. And he's repeating the same mistake.
I do not live there either, but I was born there, and have relatives there. As the election loomed, I said to my sister "you're voting for Roy Moore, right?". She said "are you serious?". I said "you can't vote for the 'rat candidate!". She was actually not going to vote at all. I don't know for sure if she did. She regarded him as a grand-standing caricature. A lot of people in Alabama probably see him that way.
What people like you can't seem to get is that it does not matter if the dirt they threw at Moore was phony. IT STUCK. It may not have been fair, but it stuck. No, we aren't hearing about it now, but when he throws his (cowboy) hat into the ring, Gloria Alred will be there with several weepy victims, and it'll be the same thing all over again.
Sarah Palin didn't really say "I can see Russia from my house!", but Tina Fey did when she played Palin in a skit, and everybody thought Palin had actually said it. Palin is over now as a political force. Wasn't fair, but it's what it is.
1. He had no personality to make voters enthusiastic about voting for him.
2. He made an ass of himself on the campaign trail any number of times -- riding a horse, waving a gun around on stage at a rally, etc. Any half-assed candidate would know that you don't spend your campaign efforts playing to voters who are going to vote for you anyway. Those antics got him exactly ZERO votes that he wouldn't have gotten without them.
3. The guy took off for the weekend before Election Day to watch a stupid football game in Philadelphia -- 800 miles away from any place in Alabama.
These add up to a miserable candidate who lost an election that he should have won walking away. Item #3 is the portrait of a quitter -- and nobody likes a quitter in politics.
... is a stupid loser because the GOPe threw their support behind the Democrat in the last election cycle.
Right or wrong (and there are plenty of reasons why the GOP leadership was dead-set against him ... What makes you think this is going to change in Moore's favor in 2020?