Republican arrogance just made Doug Jones a senator

Washington Examiner ^ | Dec 13, 2017 | Washington Examiner Editorial

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“Republicans really have no way way to win tonight.”

That was Brit Hume’s pithy way of describing yesterday’s special U.S. Senate election in Alabama. In the end, by a razor-thin margin, Republicans lost in the traditional way – at the ballot box.

For the next three years, Democratic nominee Doug Jones will hold a U.S. Senate seat that Republicans had counted on to confirm President Trump’s judicial nominees and pass his agenda. Their margin is one seat smaller – and Democrats are already one seat closer to winning their own majority in 2018.

Moore was sunk by credible allegations that he had fondled a 14-year-old girl in the late 1970s, back at a time when he had a habit of high school girls who happened to be less than half his age at the time. And during the campaign, Moore offered inconsistent and contradictory defenses for his conduct, and otherwise strove to confuse the situation rather than protest his innocence forthrightly. In short, he was caughy lying. And that is a rather telling indicator about whether those old charges were true or false.

Even so, the Democrats had no margin for error. Their brand is so toxic in Alabama that they very nearly blew it anyway. Hundreds of thousands of loyal Republicans voted for Moore reluctantly, and that was almost enough to propel him to the Senate anyway.

This race was clearly all about Moore. And so, the only question to ask in its aftermath is, who is to blame for this terrible candidate’s nomination?

We can certainly blame former White House advisor Steve Bannon and his legion of brick-throwers, who got behind Moore without doing the basic research that would have illuminated his weaknesses. When Bannon says he intends to destroy both political parties, it seems he’s only half right. He is destroying the GOP and elevating a moribund Democratic Party with his sloppy, shoddy efforts to build up his own national political machine.

But it would be a mistake to lay the blame solely with the conservative movement’s new ultramontanists. The blame falls equally, if not more, on the arrogance of the Senate Republican leadership.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team made a fateful decision to interfere in the primary. They went all in for recently-appointed Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., the way they would for any other incumbent Republican senator. Never mind that Strange had never won an election. Never mind that his appointment was badly tainted. Never mind even that the man who appointed Strange was, partly as a result, forced to resign as governor.

The GOP establishment got behind the deeply unpopular Strange and even convinced President Trump to support him. McConnell’s SuperPAC spent more than $10 million to get him to the runoff, which he lost to Roy Moore.

If not for this interference, it is very likely that Mo Brooks, R-Ala., a conservative congressman from northern Alabama, would have beaten Moore in the primary runoff. One can thus attribute Moore’s nomination and his defeat as a result of the D.C. establishment trying to pick Alabama’s next senator instead of letting Alabamians do it themselves.

And the Republican establishment’s culpability goes even beyond that. Even before the sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against him, Moore was an unpopular and highly controversial figure in Alabama. If even he was able to win a primary by default simply by running against the Washington GOP, that suggests the Washington GOP is doing something wrong.

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This was Mitch McConnell’s victory not Doug Jones’s Mitch wants one more excuses to to act like a RINO. HE should not be allowed to be minority leader he and the other traitorous RINO’s should be kicked out of the party.

We can’t win while theses RINO’s work with our name against us.

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“Now watch the women accusing Moore strangely just fade back into the woodwork, their job done.”

They never took an oath, so there are no legal consequences to their lies, and Roy Moore being a public figure can’t sue them for defamation.

This is the perfect crime, i wish i could say it was the first time but many other republicans were taken down the same way only to be vindicated later in court.
Usually however RINO’s will wait for an indictment before abandoning a republican and telling half the party to support the other guy.

[Monorprise]

“Moore was sunk by credible allegations that he had fondled a 14-year-old girl in the late 1970s
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Not credible if you ask me..........”

Didn’t the woman’s own mother dispute that she even had a phone in her room, and her neighbors claim she had made similar false claims against 2 priest. This woman is a lyer and has issues.