How low will Alabama go? Will they really elect this nutjob? Do the Ds in Alabama really have nothing better than this to offer?
I look at it this way:
Best case scenario this makes it easier for the Democrats to win the general.
Worst case scenario Moore is a constant embarrassment to the Republicans. And it’s not like Luther was going to be anything but a party line voter anyway.
Cannot wait to see who Heil Trump will blame for making him back a LOSER.
Tomorrow will be fun, unless he blows up North Korea to balance his wounded ego.
And that is precisely why Turtle wanted Strange and not Ten Commandment lover/gay basher.
I’m confused – Ds in Alabama neither had Strange nor Moore to offer; that was a Republican choice. Ds are running Doug Jones who may now have a small chance of winning (though I do not know if that we should celebrate this – the most likely outcome of the general is that the nutjob of nutjobs becomes a Senator).
Yes, the question now is whether Doug Jones is so pathetic that he can’t beat an obvious nutjob and embarrassment to the state like “Ray” Moore. (Granted, embarrassment to AL may be somewhat oxymoronic at this point.)
It looks as though Moore outperformed the polls. Clearly, the Dotard’s support is not all cracked up to be with his base. I hope the DNC takes advantage of this golden opportunity to make the general election competitive. The Dotard said he would campaign for Moore if he won (i.e. if it turned out that the D. “made a mistake”), so the result will be most interesting.
Yes obviously its his fault if people vote for a “obvious nutjob” the voters bare no responsibility at all.
I don’t know if it’s a matter of being pathetic. Trump won the state by 20 points and he’s basically as much of a nut bar as Moore.
Well. Alabamians get to decide the image they wish to project to the rest of us as a state. I lived for a few years in Mobile some time ago, and I have to say that Moore’s presence on the ballot will create some strange (no pun, Big Luther!) bedfellows. Business interests wanted Strange to win the run-off; will they back the Democrat in the general, or will they behave like most good Republicans did back in November and hold their noses and vote for Moore?
And the same question goes for the Republican establishment, which quietly acquiesced to Trump in the terribly-mistaken belief that they could control him, or he’d learn to behave, on the extremely unlikely chance that he won. Welp. Moore, unfortunately for them, has already proven that he won’t behave. Will they have learned their lesson from November and do what they should have done then and seek to derail or discredit him in some way in the general?
Sweet Home, Alabama,
Where the skies are so blue.
Sweet Home, Alabama,
See those chickens come to roost.
Trump hasn’t (yet) been ejected from office twice, nor whipped out a handgun to prove his 2nd amendment bona fides.
I really don’t understand this kind of thinking. AL is a very, very, very ruby red, Republican state. Jesus Christ himself, with an endorsement from God, would have trouble winning AL as a Democrat. That has no reflection on the candidate or the party. It’s simply the political reality of the state. There’s no need to preemptively bash the Democrat.
Strange, McConnell and Trump defeated.
And yet my happy feet don’t feel like dancing.
Trump’s unfittness manifests differently, but that doesn’t make him less of a nutjob than Moore.
Well, sure, the voters bear responsibility for who they elect. Speaking for myself, I don’t feel more responsible for Trump than I think Hillary should.
Moore is going to attempt an exorcism on the floor of the Senate.
And Dear G-d, poor Kamala Harris will be dodging elevators with that creep.
“And darkness shall fall across the land, and the morons shall inherit the earth”
A throwback among throwbacks, no surprise, in Alabama…