Posted on 12/22/2017 6:13:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
Bannon just played the cards he was dealt. He did what he could for a bad candidate who had no idea how to play the political game. The bad candidate almost won. Well done, Steve Bannon.
I want to nominate people who actually do what they say they will do.
McConnell supported Strange.
Strange did not win.
Therefor, McConnell did not support someone who would win.
Everyone should support Mo Brooks in 2020.
That is exactly what happened. Shelby, Flake and McConnell ought to get punched in the mouth for what they did.
Moore was exactly the right guy. Without the false accusations thrown at him in the 11th hour, he would have walked away with the election, and he would have been a great Senator.
The swamp attacked him, and they did it in a manner no candidate could have survived.
The swamp attacked him, and they did it in a manner no candidate could have survived.
Sorry, the swamp didn’t make Moore campaign less than Hillary and give marble mouthed interviews that did not help his cause. He’s got a marginal at best electoral track record in Alabama. Look it up.
No. I'm tired of hearing people keep repeating the nonsense that Roy Moore was a "bad candidate". He was not. He was a very good candidate that got slimed by the Democrats, and stabbed in the back by the Republicans.
Without the accusations or the backstabbing, Roy Moore would have walked away with that election. Put the blame where it belongs. On the lying accusers and the backstabbing party members such as Shelby, Flake, and McConnell.
No. Stop repeating that nonsense. Moore was 28 points ahead before the lying accusations. He was going to win it in a rout, and campaigning wasn't important. There wasn't a f***ing person in Alabama that did not know who Roy Moore was and what he stood for.
The only thing that stopped him from winning is the lying accusations and the stabbing in the back by Republican party officials. Put the blame where it belongs. It belongs squarely on the lying democrat pawns and the lying, backstabbing Republican bastards like Shelby, Flake, and McConnell.
McConnell and his gang, of course, are the ones who proactively decided to toss that seat to the Dems.
And already he is saying how he won’t even bring anything up in the Senate next year that the Dems don’t want to address.
More like Turtle Stews.
McAhole, please note. All genius has scattered results. That is because genius that gets results always has to experience failures. Genius in action equals learning. You risk, you win spectacularly, you help people. You also sometimes lose spectacularly, pick yourself up courageously, and step right back into the fight.
Cowering like a turtle in his shell, following people out of fear, going along with the crowd, TAKES VERY LITTLE INTELLIGENCE.
<3 Bannon.
LOL. Get a grip. Moore was a lousy candidate. Deal with it.
Nobody in the GOPe forced Moore to jump on a plane and go out of state to that football game the weekend before election day. Were you asleep during Trump’s campaign? The weekend before that election he was campaigning coast to coast.
Moore has a marginal elecotral track record that predates GOPe shenanigans. Had been a better candidate, he would have dealt with the “nonsense” and won. Period.
Moore was a perfect candidate for Alabama. That is the truth. You deal with it.
Nobody in the GOPe forced Moore to jump on a plane and go out of state to that football game the weekend before election day.
Had nothing to do with the loss. Going to a football game did not cause 400,000 people to stay home. False Accusations and Republican backstabbing caused them to stay home.
Were you asleep during Trump’s campaign? The weekend before that election he was campaigning coast to coast.
Are you sleeping now? A Presidential campaign is a very different thing from a special election for the US Senate. There was no further need for campaigning. It would not have helped Moore no matter where or how he did it. Likewise, Trump was never accused of rape and child molestation. His campaign wouldn't have survived those accusations if they had been made against him.
People who didn't like Moore anyway are all full of themselves in calling him a "bad candidate." He would have been a bad candidate in Oregon, or California, or New York, but in Alabama, he was a perfectly good candidate and he would have won in a landslide if there had been no allegations. He would have won with a small margin if the Republicans hadn't back stabbed him by telling people to "write in" a candidate.
Those are the facts, jack.
Moore was such a perfect candidate for Alabama that the last time he ran for office in the state he got a whopping 52% of the vote. You are letting your emotions color your analysis here. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Why didn’t the voters vote for him? I thought it was all crap - 40 year suspicious accusations...but I heard him on Hannity trying to defend himself and think he needed a professional fixer to tell him how to address all this.
No, it wasn’t fair...but that’s the state of things in modern politics. And now AL has a rat senator. We can expect this over and over again....blood sport.
Interesting how the AP has gone from reporting it as “sexual molestation” to “improper contact,” even noting it was “decades ago.”
And the next down ballot candidate Republican (Twinkle Cavanaugh) for Statewide office got 54% of the vote. This is *NORMAL* in these sorts of elections. The 2% difference between Moore and the down ballot Republican candidate can be explained by the fact that the other Justices of the Alabama Supreme court wrote a letter publicly endorsing the Democrat running in the race. This was published in various Alabama Newspapers prior to the election. Moore beat him in spite of their deliberate interference.
You are letting your emotions color your analysis here.
You are projecting your own faults on me. I've looked at the Alabama State election data for 2012. You can find it at the Alabama secretary of state's website. Moore was a perfectly normal candidate for the state of Alabama. There was nothing wrong with him as an Alabama candidate before those lying accusations were put forth, and before the national Republicans deliberately stabbed him in the back by telling people to either "write in" or vote for Doug Jones.
You need to stop letting *YOUR* emotions cloud your judgement. It was in fact lying accusations and deliberate Republican back stabbing of Moore that cost us that Senate seat.
Hannity did more harm than good. When the initial accusation was made, the Washington Post vermin reporter (Same hate filled bitch that did the "N***er Rock" smear against Rick Perry in Texas) linked molesting a 14 year old with dating teenagers. It created the appearance that if you admitted to the one, it made it seem like you did the other, and this is exactly the approach Hannity took.
Roy Moore did date teenage girls, and Hannity kept trying to get him to deny that, instead of focusing on the only really egregious accusation against him; that he molested a 14 year old.
By focusing on the dating, Hannity put Moore into a terrible spot, because Moore did date teenagers. It kept Moore from being able to deny the really bad accusation because it kept the focus on the wrong thing.
A lot of people feel that a 30 year old man dating teenagers has a big "ick" factor, but without the molestation accusation, the dating of teenagers would have been a big nothing.
We disagree. I thought this interview was a disaster for Moore:
I assume the charges made against him by the ex-14-year-old were false, but Moore could not have made it more obvious that he was lying about dating teenagers when he was in his thirties. If he lied about that, who knows what else he would lie about?
I'm sorry he lost, but if you can't play the political game better than Moore played it, you don't belong in big-league politics.
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