AB, I think you’re being a bit too generous towards Bright. Although clearly he voted well to the right of the Communist average for Democrats, he certainly wasn’t voting along the lines of Zell Miller. He lost reelection to a subpar Roby. Frankly, I don’t care for either of them. She’s too liberal and flaky, and his voting record was still to her left. Trump supports her, if only because Bright did vote for Pelosi for Speaker. That may be an unforgiveable sin.
The President supported Luther Strange, also, but Trump voters in Alabama didn’t.
That doesn’t mean they don’t like Trump—they do very much—including me—but sometimes someone is too high up to know what’s been going on down in the weeds.
I encouraged Bright to go Republican BEFORE he became Representative. He blew it off (because he was looking for BLACK votes—who just don’t make up anywhere near a majority, and he thought he could get them and the remaining old conservative democrats on his side. BAD calculation. But it did work—for only ONE term), and after winning in 2008, we replaced him, in 2010 with Roby, who, from her position in the Montgomery City Council, seemed very conservative.
She ran against TEA partiers. She has never been a fighter nor a conservative.
She knifed GOP winner Trump in the back when should have kept her mouth shut. The “Grab ‘em by the &%^&%^&” thing came out on a Friday—she set up a microphone to denounce him that Saturday morning. Remember, this was AFTER the convention. It was EITHER him or Clinton. It was too late. She should had kept her mouth shut. Trump didn’t even get a chance to defend himself at that time. She couldn’t wait a couple of days???
I said that moment, I will never vote for her again! I’m sticking to it.
Bright has a chance, and I’m going to give it to him. ONCE. If he doesn’t show conservatism he’ll be replaced in 20. There are LOTS of good conservatives here who can replace either of them. Right now it can’t be Roby. She’s done.