Posted on 12/10/2017 2:42:14 PM PST by Rummyfan
ARLEY, Ala. — I recently drove the back roads from Birmingham for over two hours before I finally found a sign for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, outside the Arley Coffee Shop. A retired coal miner who frequents what the cashier called the “liars’ table” put it to me in the familiar Winston County way. “The women,” he said of Mr. Moore’s accusers, were lying to make him look like a sexual predator. “Groping,” he added, “used to be all right anyway.”
The Free State of Winston is Alabama’s most distinctive political culture, and now it may be the center of America’s current political convulsion. Winstonians tend to go to one side or another in a big way, and they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks. According to one historical account, the residents voted 515 to 128 for an antebellum legislator who promised to oppose the Ordinance of Secession that took Alabama out of the Union in 1861. Today they believe President Trump is an untarnished Republican savior and are cheering his endorsement of Mr. Moore.
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Agreed, every time his weasel face shows up, I am more determined to vote against this abortion-loving liar.
I read enough of this “report” to know how fos this guy is.
I grew up in Mobile with a couple of years stint in Pittsburgh.
Those people really thought we all lived on dirt roads.
Blair was the 'official' reason for him being forced out.
In reality, the Ivy Leaguer staff at the New York Times bristled at taking orders from the Alabama educated Raines, Blue Dog Democrat or not...
I’ve driven from Birmingham to North Alabama three times over the past three weeks and I’ve seen LOTS of Judge Roy Moore signs.
Drove to Russellville.
Decatur.
Hanceville.
His signs are all over the place in North Alabama.
He is still contributing to the Times?? I worked at the NY Times in the 1990s in a financial job. My friends and I used to refer to him as “Howell Bigot” because of how he patronized black employees, and this was before the Jayson Blair incident. We could all see it then. I was not surprised when I heard about the Jayson Blair incident. Only surprised that it was reported.
Anyone who’s dismissive of Moore on “accused pedophile” grounds should explain to me why they do not demand repeal of the statute of limitations. Two obvious reasons occur to me:Those two reasons play into each other: If it really doesn’t matter that much anymore, and even if the defendant is guilty as charged you’re pretty certain that he isn’t going to reoffend, why bother trying really hard to prosecute the case? And if it’s really difficult to get to the truth of the case, why would you want to go to that trouble when the defendant is not really the same person by this time anyway?
- It gets harder and harder to conduct a fair trial and come to the truth of a matter with the passage of time, the fading of memories, and the reduced availability and even death of significant witnesses. And
- As Hillary disingenuously said, “At this point, what difference does it make?” People do change over the decades, sometimes for the better.
Add to those considerations the fact that what is really happening is that the attacks on Moore are designed to prevent the people of Alabama from expressing their political identity/preference, and I simply reject the idea that it is necessary to let an “October Surprise” be dispositive - in this case or any other.
I’m even getting Doug Jones adds on Words With Friends!
Howell Raines was was the first reporter to tag the Alabama/Florida Gulf Coast Beaches as “Redneck Riviera.”
Todd and Stabler Offseason Game: Living It Up on ‘Redneck Riviera’
By HOWELL RAINES
JUNE 21, 1978
I guess most Alabamians are able to think at least one step further than this guilt-ridden, self-loathing son of the South. His sort are always apologizing and engaging in endless moral preening while doing penance for the land of their birth.
But what many Alabamians who plan to vote for Roy Moore know is that the #1 priority, by a huge margin, is to prevent the senate seat from falling into Dim hands. So, they’ll vote for Moore and hope it works out well, but if it doesn’t, they also know Alabama’s Republican governor would appoint another temporary senator and schedule another special election.
The moral stand to be taken Tuesday is to keep that far left extremist Doug Jones out of the US Senate.
Pretty sure w we calling it that back in the ‘60’s.
Sounds like a good place to vacation. Howell made it sound like fun.
Pathetically childish, not to mention dishonest, i.e. half of it is undoubtedly made up.
No better beaches on Planet Earth, IMHO. I’ve been going since age five, 62 years ago. Now, Mrs. abb & I try to go at least twice a year, and sometimes three.
Best time to go is late April, after Spring Breakers have cleared out, or in mid-October. In the fall, the water’s still warm enough to swim, but all the seaweed has cleared out.
I don’t have a Moore sign in my yard because there are more than a few Jones signs up. Got no need to be vandalized. I have been b4. But I vote a secret ballot
Yup....
I think that is why I have only seen a total of one bumper sticker this entire campaign.
So the media slinging around the word "pedophile" doesn't even line up with the accusations.
He is from the George Wallace (D) Alabama era.
What is "plausibly accused"? I get "plausibly innocent or plausibly guilty" but plausibly accused?
Anyway, yes, I am willing to send a plausibly accused pedophile (whatever that is) to the Senate rather than a Democrat, because a Democrat is even lower than a guilty pedophile.
Go Moore and Alabama will rise again.
I’m really beginning to enjoy the freedom of election hyperbole.
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