rjd970
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So now Trump is mad at his political advisers for having him back the loser, and Trump got up this morning and started deleting the tweets he has posted supporting Strange, and replaced them with one supporting Moore.
Trump's ego is so fragile that its hard to even put into words.
I really think Moore's idea of a utopia is a Christian theocracy, Taliban style.
Moores victory was as big a victory for Bannon and the news site he directs as it was a loss for McConnell and the establishment.
Bannon, fighting on the opposite side of Trump, had been clear in proclaiming Moore as the anti-establishment conservative taking on the entrenched powers in Washington.
At a rally for Moore on Sunday, Bannon described McConnell and his allies as corrupt and incompetent.
Introducing a victorious Moore on Tuesday night, Bannon heralded a revolution spearheaded by populists who do not have to raise money from the elites, the crony capitalists, from the fat cats in Washington, D.C., New York City and Silicon Valley.
Breitbart was just as celebratory. Blowout in Bama, its main headline proclaimed atop a homepage crammed full of headlines insisting, among other things, that the GOP establishment had been brought to [its] knees.
Bannons enemies within the GOP, of whom there are plenty, will roll their eyes at what they see as self-aggrandizement. But this was clearly a huge win for the pugnacious strategist and his acolytes.
http://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/352614-five-takeaways-from-the-alabama-run-off
It's not like Strange strayed from Trumps agenda, he was an adamant supporter. Crazy that people would rather elect a theocrat.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politics/alabama-senate-republican-roy-moore-greatest-hits/index.html
Vox's Jeff Stein interviewed Moore over the summer. He emerged with a handful of brow-raising nuggets, but this excerpted exchange stood out. Both for its weirdness and the insight it provides into the kind of senator Moore, should he prevail, figures to be.
Stein begins by asking if Moore believes that "Sharia law is a danger to America?" Here's what follows:
Roy Moore
"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. Christian communities; I don't know if they may be Muslim communities. But Sharia law is a little different from American law. It is founded on religious concepts."
Stein
"Which American communities are under Sharia law? When did they fall under Sharia law?"
Moore
"Well, there's Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."
Stein
"That seems like an amazing claim for a Senate candidate to make."
Moore
"Well, let me just put it this way -- if they are, they are; if they're not, they're not."
The claim is, of course, entirely false.[/QUOTE]
This is the Trump model
You're missing a key point: Southern states are a CONSERVATIVE legacy. Southern Democrats were right wingers until the 1960s/70s and then, because of Civil Rights and other issues, conservative pols switched to the GOP. It's not the party that counts, it's the philosophy. And the conservative philosophy has left the South poor and backward...still.
Democrats controlled the state legislature and most public offices for two centuries until 2011. In fact, to find another state so dominated by Democrats, you'd have to look at the rest of Southern states similarly run by Dems from at least the Civil War until 2010. It was total control until those populations thought "about maybe doing something differently".
In addition, those states have the highest percentages of blacks and Hispanics, the most difficult minority populations to bring forward educationally and economically. It is why the South has considerably higher rates of crime, and impacts obesity, too.
The current state of Southern states are a Democrat legacy. It might take Republicans more than six years to turn around perhaps an average of 150 years of negligent, Democratic governance in those states.
He is exactly like any radical religious zealot. I don't care for the type, no matter their country or religion.
You're missing a key point: Southern states are a CONSERVATIVE legacy. Southern Democrats were right wingers until the 1960s/70s and then, because of Civil Rights and other issues, conservative pols switched to the GOP. It's not the party that counts, it's the philosophy. And the conservative philosophy has left the South poor and backward...still.
Moore scares you leftists. We get it. There will be more to come. Enjoy.
This did not happen. It's just a story democrats have concocted to run away from their history rooted in racism and bigotry.
DEMOCRATS HAVE A CHANCE IN SENATE RACE IN ALABABMA
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/352858-dems-cautiously-hopeful-after-moores-alabama-win
Haha, just joking. Alabama is a state steeped in racism, homophobia and all manner of bigotry. Throw in religious zealotry and generations of inbreeding and you have the quintessential Republican stronghold. Moore will win in a landslide.