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Tom Cotton Backs Up Roy Moore: ‘We Shouldn’t Have Trial by Newspaper’
Breitbart ^ | 9 Dec 2017 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/09/2017 6:08:36 PM PST by Paladin2

n the interview published on Saturday, Cotton compared the frivolous allegations against Moore to the frivolous allegations that came out against President Donald Trump before his landslide victory over Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cotton said the voters would decide the veracity of the claims just like they deemed Trump to not be guilty last year, and that the news media should not determine whether or not people are guilty.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; cotton; duplicate; moore; roymoore; ruleoflaw; tomcotton
Quiet Tom Cotton speaks...
1 posted on 12/09/2017 6:08:36 PM PST by Paladin2
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"Cotton’s comments also seriously undercut Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s efforts to undermine Moore’s campaign.

After spending more than $30 million in a failed effort to defeat Moore in the primary and runoff, McConnell then orchestrated an effort to push Moore out of the race after these allegations surfaced in the Washington Post.

Within minutes of the Post story, first posted weeks ago, McConnell rallied his fellow establishment GOP senators to push Moore to “step aside.” McConnell and the GOP establishment failed.

Moore is still standing and is poised for victory on Tuesday."

Ditch Mitch...

2 posted on 12/09/2017 6:11:30 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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3 posted on 12/09/2017 6:12:46 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: Paladin2

On his first entrance into the Senate, I’d like to see Moore literally beat Mitch’s face into a pulp.


4 posted on 12/09/2017 6:16:00 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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‘We Shouldn’t Have Trial by Newspaper’


Exactly correct. Trial by “newspaper” or more correctly, media assassination, is how this country has been ruled by the Mediacracy for the past 50 years.


5 posted on 12/09/2017 6:17:29 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Paladin2
McTurtle deserves permanent banishment on his back. .
6 posted on 12/09/2017 6:32:45 PM PST by Fungi (Fungi rule the world, no one knows it yet.)
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To: Paladin2

Moore should enter the Senate with “Ride of the Valkyries” playing.


7 posted on 12/09/2017 6:36:05 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: 2111USMC
On his first entrance into the Senate, I’d like to see Moore literally beat Mitch’s face into a pulp.

We have the precedent in Preston Brooks (SC) doing a serious number on Charles Sumner (MA) for calling his COUSIN a pimp for slavery. McConnell has done similar and worse for a period of four months against the good Judge himself.
8 posted on 12/09/2017 6:36:41 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: marktwain
‘We Shouldn’t Have Trial by Newspaper’

That's right !

9 posted on 12/09/2017 6:38:54 PM PST by timestax
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To: Dr. Sivana

Charles Sumner was actually correct; Brooks was offended by the truth. Modern day leftists suffer the same defect. McTurtle deserves the caning, Sumner did not.


10 posted on 12/09/2017 6:46:29 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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"Moore should enter the Senate with “Ride of the Valkyries” playing."

YES!!!

11 posted on 12/09/2017 7:11:17 PM PST by precisionshootist
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What happened to the idea of "trial by a jury of one's peers" and "innocent until proven guilty?

What happens when one begins removing the foundations, by one block or section at a time?

12 posted on 12/09/2017 7:59:07 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Paladin2
the news media should not determine whether or not people are guilty.

The MSM wants veto power over candidates. At least Republican candidates.

Question for someone: was there anything to the accusations against Herman Caine?

13 posted on 12/09/2017 8:20:18 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Paladin2

When Roy Moore takes his rightfully won seat in the US Senate there will be one other Senator worthy of being called “Senator.” Maybe two, if you can count in Rand Paul. The rest of them are just a bucket of cocks the whole lot of them. So perhaps 3% of the US Senate deserve the honor of the title. That’s where we really are today.


14 posted on 12/09/2017 10:13:17 PM PST by vette6387
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To: marktwain
Trial by “newspaper” or more correctly, media assassination, is how this country has been ruled by the Mediacracy for the past 50 years.

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Right on.

15 posted on 12/10/2017 12:10:17 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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What happened to the idea of "trial by a jury of one's peers" and "innocent until proven guilty?

What happens when one begins removing the foundations, by one block or section at a time?

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What happens? The end of a fine, excellent, well constructed nation.... that's what happens.

These are some ugly times, but maybe there is some light in the near future.

16 posted on 12/10/2017 12:14:47 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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To: NorthMountain; Dr. Sivana

Lincoln was too moderate for Charles Sumner and the vindictive Radical Republicans, a faction that would have hanged large numbers of defeated Confederates. He voted to impeach Andrew Johnson. He wanted to dissolve the Southern states, strip its citizens of the right to vote and have the states ruled as conquered territories. He finally met his match when he accused President Grant of being a corrupt tyrant.

Sumner would have made a great Bolshevik. Like Thaddeus Stephens and the other Radical Republicans, Sumner was one of the premier hate-mongers of his time. It should come as no surprise that they were admired by Marx and Engels who closely followed the American Civil War.


17 posted on 12/10/2017 12:47:05 AM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: Paladin2

Tom Cotton is a quiet Senator, and he is good...


18 posted on 12/10/2017 6:23:12 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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