Posted on 06/24/2019 10:19:09 AM PDT by Texan4Life
A large primary field may fragment the vote, making it unlikely that a candidate could win a majority and avoid a runoff and making it easier for Moore to advance to a runoff with only the support of his base.
The point is that Moore does have a path — especially a path to a primary runoff if there’s a crowded GOP field. And if he does get there, he would be only one step away from a rematch with Jones.
Moore would still have a decent chance of winning a general election in conservative Alabama, and that is surely a big part of why he’s running again.
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Done ? Yes, you certainly are, ma’am.
DU calls, n00b. Take your Demonrat talking points and hit the bricks.
Give it up. He’s not going to be the nominee. People know better.
BTW, I could just as easily accuse you two of being part of his campaign team.
Conserv = N00b troll keyboard commando.
I am aware of that. Years ago I met Haley Barbour and shook his hand, and I would have never thought he would have done such a thing.
Yes, what they did to McDaniel should have caused some heads to roll.
No doubt the Shelby Machine in AL used that as a template for the general special.
I think there is behind the scenes collusion between Democrats and the Republican establishment in Washington to torpedo challengers to the big money spending party in DC.
They absolutely do not want reform candidates to win, and both sides cooperate to destroy them.
I think a corrupt cabal of Washington DC "deep state" influence peddlers really run things in Washington DC.
The Congress is just for show.
We see this evil cabal doing everything of which they can think to take out Trump, so why would it be hard to believe they will take out reform challengers?
As a matter of fact, the race was deliberately nationalized by the media in an effort to damage Trump. There is a reason so much national focus was put on this race, and that's because they wanted it to portray it as a rebuke of Donald Trump.
DU calls, n00b. Take your Demonrat talking points and hit the bricks.
Lame. Try a little harder, honey.
I call things as I see them, and Akin should have never answered that question the way he did. He should have known better.
Even so, without the media power against him, it wouldn't have mattered.
In the USA, the media manipulate elections to help Democrats, and I believe they do so because people who actually own the media companies make a lot more money when liberals are freely spending the taxpayer money.
Well, I appreciate your honesty... and the fact that you’re not trying to re-write history.
To properly understand Akin's remark, one has to acknowledge that Akin mastered in divinity and conservative interpretation of scripture.
As a 24-term representative (12 state and 12 federal), he understood the need to compromise when representing people of diverse faiths (that's the liberal religious litmus test of conservatives, right?). The MSM is always trying to trip up Republicans over abortion, and especially Christians.
Akin was probably trying to separate what I'll call "Sunday morning remorse" after a Saturday one-night stand. Claims of rape (at the time) were really women who had regrets after sleeping with a guy. "Legitimate rape" was an awkward way of saying that a real forceful rape is what he was willing to accept as a justification for an abortion, as a compromise for his deeply held religious belief.
It wasn't a "serious mistake" but it was enough for the media to play up. You have to put it into the media context of what else was happening. Foster Friess was a conservative big donor who funded religious and conservative candidates. In 2012 he was a big donor to Rick Santorum. When during an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell the subject of contraception came up (remember when Stephanopoulos brought it up again during the Republican primary debates?) , Friess made a joke of it, referring to "old wives tales" that the best contraception was putting an aspirin between your knees.
This was also around the same time that Rush Limbaugh made his comments about Sandra Fluke wanting taxpayer funded contraception. As far as the MSM was concerned, there was chum in the waters and the sharks were ready to devour anything that crossed their paths.
So, we had Limbaugh/Fluke, Santorum/Friess, and then Akin, all building up on the media's theme of "war against women" that would eventually land on Romney during the Presidential debates.
Akin was roadkill on the way to Romney. He was not an "idiot." But he was a sacrifice that a feckless GOP that was afraid of its own shadow was ready to toss aside.
And that's NOT rewriting history, it's teaching it.
-PJ
McConnell/RINo’s/GOPe won’t be able to focus their dollars like the last time when it was a special election. There will be additional priorities competing for those dollars during the primaries and general election.Roy has decent chances to win.
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besides sending Roy a few bucks another thing we can do to help tie up RNC dollars (keeping them away from Jones campaign) is to support credible conservative candidates in the R primaries when running against GOPe .
RINO targets are plentiful in 2020!
1) McConnell
Gardner
Risch
Cornyn
Capito
Ernst
Cassidy
Hyde-Smith
McSally
sasse
Daines
Tillis
Graham
Rounds
Enzi
remember the YEARBOOK FORGER!
They aren't upset about the funds. They could care less about the money, they were looking for any excuse to get rid of him, and that just happened to be it.
When he ran for election to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2012, the entire Alabama judiciary took out a full page ad in all the major Alabama newspapers urging voters to vote for the Democrat. The Alabama judiciary hated Moore.
Moore won anyway, and I believe he actually won more votes than did Richard Shelby when he ran in 2010. Just checked it. Yes, Moore won with over a Million votes, while Shelby only got 967,861.
If a republican candidate isn’t aware that the media is out to get him/her, then that person has no business running.
+1.
Ok
Still think it’s a chance not worth taking.
It’s Alabama’s decision not mine.
My problem is Gov. James Justice & Manchin.
You’re absolutely right. There is collusion. How else would we have had a party descend to the point that it was blindly nominating establishment puppets and Derp Staters indistinguishable from the Demonrats like the Bush family horror, McQueeg and Willard the Rat. They were all set to put up El “Please Clap” Jebbe as the third ringer in a row to “graciously lose” to his adoptive sister, the Butcheress of Benghazi. Trump shut that crap down.
Just look at the recent rulings on historical symbols that don't proselytize, like monument crosses, headstone symbols, and Ten Commandment imagery (like what exists in the carvings on the Supreme Court building itself.
-PJ
This! I've discussed this before, and i've pointed out half a dozen Democrat morons and idiots who would have been utterly destroyed by the media if they had been Republicans, but who are completely protected because the media cover for them.
The media manipulate elections, and they do so deliberately.
And I believe this power should be take away from them.
Why don't we add you to the list, based on the depth of your critical thinking displayed here.
Scratch a nerve, and we get ad hominem. That's not very deep thinking in my book.
-PJ
That would seem to be a problem. Trump has called his Sessions nomination “a mistake.” Which would seem to moot Trump’s opposition to the risk of a Moore nomination.
Trump endorsed Luther Strange. Trump flubbed that one, because Luther Strange was involved in a serious corruption scandal with the Governor, and most of the people in Alabama knew it, though Trump did not.
Did it never occur to you to wonder why Luther Strange didn't get the nomination in spite of being endorsed by Trump? Or do you just believe the crap the media people spew out?
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