[DiogenesLamp]

You should have taken a lesson from Trump, and fought harder.

It was the accusations, which so many of our side simply accepted at face value and repeated endlessly, that cost this election. I saw the "write in" vote was something like 22,000, which was the exact margin of victory.

People like Shelby urging people to not vote for Moore was the cause of this "write in" vote. People like Jeff Flake writing a very public check to Doug Jones lent credibility to the accusations.

There was no "fight harder." Moore simply did not have any tools with which he could redeem himself in the eyes of a lot of people who had been misled by what the media told them, and by what other Republicans constantly repeated and amplified.

[butterdezillion]

A people that stupid - that EVIL, to believe what the evidence strongly suggested was libel - deserves what it gets. A person whose conscience tells them to vote against a man because he’s been libeled is in sad, sad shape.

I hope when the District of Corruption gets exposed, Shelby is swept away with it. Those who refuse to fight this beast are part of it.

[Windflier]

It was the accusations, which so many of our side simply accepted at face value

Hannity gave Moore his big chance to vociferously refute the scuttilous claims against him on national television, but according to most accounts, he botched it.

When Trump was faced with personal attacks from the same lying cabal, he roared back with real fire, and set them on their heels.

Roy couldn't manage to cough out a puff of smoke, and that is why so many voters bought into the lies.

[snarkytart]

It was the accusations, which so many of our side simply accepted at face value and repeated endlessly, that cost this election. I saw the “write in” vote was something like 22,000, which was the exact margin of victory.

People like Shelby urging people to not vote for Moore was the cause of this “write in” vote. People like Jeff Flake writing a very public check to Doug Jones lent credibility to the accusations.

There was no “fight harder.” Moore simply did not have any tools with which he could redeem himself in the eyes of a lot of people who had been misled by what the media told them, and by what other Republicans constantly repeated and amplified.
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The left and media didn’t cost Moore the election it was the GOP establishment publicly condemning him and pulling money...period.
Shelby was the nail in Moore’s coffin. The write-in vote was crazy HUGE..and was encouraged by the GOP.