Who is the AL conservative candidate for governor, fieldmarshaldj? Or is there another one?
Bentley was the most conservative of the candidates. he is lagging a little behind Byrne and James right now, but still in striking distance.
If he can get into the runoff he will be in very good shape. he should get a good bit of Moore’s support, and James was so vicious to Byrne and vice versa that their supporters may go for bentley and not for the other.
but it is all moot if the runoff ends up Byrne/james, then the choice will be between a loose cannon that shoots before thinking (James) and a former Dem trying to pass himself off as a Conservative (Byrne)
I don’t think there was necessarily a single candidate to coalesce behind, although maybe Tim James (at least for Religious Conservatives, which would be the same group supporting Moore, but you can’t have an exclusively Religious Conservative Governor, as we saw the problem with Tim’s father, Fob). There was no candidate I was on fire for there, anyway (same problem I have here in TN). I tentatively endorsed Byrne.
Alabama:
James, Byrnes and Bentley are all conservative, and are in a three-way for the run off election in July. Roy Moore is not going to make it.
Young Boozer won his race by beating Geroge Wallace, Junior!
On the democrat side, Artur Davis, the Obama-look-and-sound-alike, has lost to the frumpy white liberal Ron Sparks.