Twice elected, twice fired AL Supreme Court Justice wins primary

[Jimmy Higgins]

Alabama says "You ain't seen nuthin' yet."

In an upset likely to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 special election.

The Judge was fired twice for not following the law and the Republicans in Alafuckingbama have sent him to the Special General Election for the Jeff Sessions seat in the US Senate.

Despite Moore being an actual maverick and fucknut, Trump supported the establishment candidate Strange, who is currently keeping the seat warm for whomever wins in fucking December... 2+ more months!

Steve Bannon and Caribou Barbie backed the guy who refused to follow any law but his own.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Alabama says "You ain't seen nuthin' yet."

In an upset likely to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 special election.

The Judge was fired twice for not following the law and the Republicans in Alafuckingbama have sent him to the Special General Election for the Jeff Sessions seat in the US Senate.

Despite Moore being an actual maverick and fucknut, Trump supported the establishment candidate Strange, who is currently keeping the seat warm for whomever wins in fucking December... 2+ more months!

Steve Bannon and Caribou Barbie backed the guy who refused to follow any law but his own.

Jesus Christ, the republican party gets crazier and crazier.

 

[Derec]

Roy Moore's nomination gives Dems a fighting chance of gaining that seat.
And if (as is still likely) Moore wins, I doubt he will be terribly effective. He is 70 and would be a freshman senator.

 

[sharon45]

I can hear one of his campaign pratforms now: "Hey, I'm a lot Moore strange than that other guy was, and I won't be terribly effective in the Senate, I'll be apocalyptically effective!"

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

This result just shows how goofy the republican party has become. If you court religionists and racists and skinheads what exactly is your political agenda anyway? What are you trying to accomplish aside from political pyrrhic victories?

The republican party needs to get its civil act in order before it can become effective. Moore's election only makes that job more difficult.

I don't think it gives the dems a chance to take this senate seat, it's just funny to see Moore be elected. Pretty soon we'll see more Monkey Trials.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

This result just shows how goofy the republican party has become. If you court religionists and racists and skinheads what exactly is your political agenda anyway? What are you trying to accomplish aside from political pyrrhic victories?

The republican party needs to get its civil act in order before it can become effective. Moore's election only makes that job more difficult.

I don't think it gives the dems a chance to take this senate seat, it's just funny to see Moore be elected. Pretty soon we'll see more Monkey Trials.

Moore could effectively be a third party Senator. The Republicans in Alabama indicated they don't care what the establishment wants. The Republican voters appear to have, in some states, completely emptied the flavoraid punch bowl. They are true believers in a history that doesn't exist, economics that don't work, and a world that doesn't work remotely in the way they want it to.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Steve Bannon and Caribou Barbie backed the guy who refused to follow any law but his own.

Trump backed the other guy... Until he lost, then Trump deleted the tweets throwing support that way.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Steve Bannon and Caribou Barbie backed the guy who refused to follow any law but his own.

Trump backed the other guy... Until he lost, then Trump deleted the tweets throwing support that way.

I didn't realize that. I heard he deleted Strange tweets, but I thought he merely congratulated the wrong guy and then x'd the tweets.

He actually went back in his tweet feed to delete those?! What a fucking moron. Clearly he has too much time on his hands with all the work he is doing. Oddly, Moore was his type of candidate, but he followed McConnell's lead. Trump is nothing if not inconsistent.

 

[sharon45]

Trump backed the other guy... Until he lost, then Trump deleted the tweets throwing support that way.

I didn't realize that. I heard he deleted Strange tweets, but I thought he merely congratulated the wrong guy and then x'd the tweets.

He actually went back in his tweet feed to delete those?! What a fucking moron. Clearly he has too much time on his hands with all the work he is doing. Oddly, Moore was his type of candidate, but he followed McConnell's lead. Trump is nothing if not inconsistent.

Those tweets are his personal property to treat as he wishes, and it is not as though he imagines he is actually erasing history. Also, we need to see how Moore votes to size up his supposed alignment with Trump. He may be able to use Moore to vote against proposals like the health care bill.

 

[blastula]

I didn't realize that. I heard he deleted Strange tweets, but I thought he merely congratulated the wrong guy and then x'd the tweets.

He actually went back in his tweet feed to delete those?! What a fucking moron. Clearly he has too much time on his hands with all the work he is doing. Oddly, Moore was his type of candidate, but he followed McConnell's lead. Trump is nothing if not inconsistent.

Those tweets are his personal property to treat as he wishes, and it is not as though he imagines he is actually erasing history. Also, we need to see how Moore votes to size up his supposed alignment with Trump. He may be able to use Moore to vote against proposals like the health care bill.

Actually, his tweets are covered by the records act, though some can be considered personal.

 

[sharon45]

Those tweets are his personal property to treat as he wishes, and it is not as though he imagines he is actually erasing history. Also, we need to see how Moore votes to size up his supposed alignment with Trump. He may be able to use Moore to vote against proposals like the health care bill.

Actually, his tweets are covered by the records act, though some can be considered personal.

Like I said, he isn't erasing history with this.

 

[James Brown]

Actually, his tweets are covered by the records act, though some can be considered personal.

Like I said, he isn't erasing history with this.

Did anyone say he was?

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[sharon45]

Like I said, he isn't erasing history with this.

Did anyone say he was?

As just an expression, it is not to be taken as literal. So if people are tracking a chronicle of his tweets, then the responsibility is on them for the content. Now if he was breaking some kind of law or going against protocol, then the record keepers have evidence of such.

 

[sharon45]

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Hey, ya wanna see sum workplace violence, jess elect me ta the Senate!

 

[LordKiran]

So I watched the debate between the judge and his opponant. Not surprised he won in the slightest. Its seriously cringy.

 

[Copernicus]

I think that one needs to look at local Alabama politics to understand why Moore beat Strange. Both candidates were horrible, but Moore had a long history of enthusiastic right wing support because of his pro-fundamentalist behavior as a judge. Strange, OTOH, had been appointed to the Senate in a very publicly-debated quid-pro-quo deal to help Governor Robert Bentley beat a criminal rap. See Roy Moore's Alabama Senate win may not be a sign of a rightwing uprising.

Moore is as sui generis a product of the Yellowhammer State as white barbecue sauce and Bear Bryant. The social conservative firebrand has been an institution in the state’s politics for nearly two decades. He has twice won election to be chief justice of the state’s supreme court and twice been removed from office for defying federal courts; first in 2003 for refusing to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama judicial building and then, in 2016, over his defiance of the supreme court ruling legalizing gay marriage. In between he has run twice for governor and once for president and built a hardcore devoted following in the state.

His opponent, former state attorney general Strange, was appointed to the Senate in January by Republican governor Robert Bentley, whom he was investigating for criminal efforts to conceal an extramarital affair. Bentley has since resigned and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors. Even in a state where political corruption has long been endemic, the appointment – which followed Jeff Sessions’ elevation to the role of attorney general – raised eyebrows. The two faced off in an odd-year special election runoff where turnout was low and few voters were engaged.

Moore is setting records as the bag-of-hammers stupidest, most ignorant, most bigoted Republican candidate to run for federal office. And that is with Donald Trump as the defending champion. A reporter had to tell Moore who the "Dreamers" were so that he could get Moore's opinion on where he stood on DACA. Moore said he had no idea who they were but that he would "look at" the issue. Apparently, he never bothers to follow national news unless it has something to do with his religion fetish. I hope that Democrats can somehow pick off his senate seat, but this is the state of Alabama that is conducting the election. It is likely that Moore will end up replacing Strange as the newest senator to work with the GOP on wrecking the US and its reputation abroad.

 

[jab]

Actually, his tweets are covered by the records act, though some can be considered personal.

Like I said, he isn't erasing history with this.

yes, a President's endorsement of a candidate is an act of historical relevance, and the exact wording of the endorsement is of relevance. It's not like a tweet praising Melania's looks at a tete-a-tete breakfast that morning.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Like I said, he isn't erasing history with this.

yes, a President's endorsement of a candidate is an act of historical relevance, and the exact wording of the endorsement is of relevance. It's not like a tweet praising Melania's looks at a tete-a-tete breakfast that morning.

Pretty much, what he did would be like the LA Dodgers trying to erase a few losses in the standings and replace them with wins. Not rewriting history, but rather, being a sore loser and caring more about his image as a 'kingmaker'.

 

[sharon45]

yes, a President's endorsement of a candidate is an act of historical relevance, and the exact wording of the endorsement is of relevance. It's not like a tweet praising Melania's looks at a tete-a-tete breakfast that morning.

Pretty much, what he did would be like the LA Dodgers trying to erase a few losses in the standings and replace them with wins. Not rewriting history, but rather, being a sore loser and caring more about his image as a 'kingmaker'.

I see it as just him personally managing his account. There is already a clear record of him tweeting and campaigning for Strange outside of his twitter history, and now he moves forward to helping Moore get elected without dwelling on the past.