How A Roy Moore Win In Alabama Could Scramble The 2018 Midterms
A Roy Moore Ricochet
A victory Tuesday by the former judge over Luther Strange in Alabama’s GOP Senate runoff stands to reverberate far outside the Heart of Dixie.
By David Catanese, Senior Politics Writer |Sept. 25, 2017, at 4:21 p.m.
Roy Moore's likely victory in Tuesday's Alabama Republican Senate primary is expected to embolden like-minded challengers to GOP incumbents next year, reopening a politically perilous intraparty fissure that will sandwich President Donald Trump between anxious party leaders and his boiling base.
Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has led in every public poll against Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill the seat of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in February by a scandal-plagued governor. Three new surveys all place Moore up by double digits, solidifying his position as the front-runner.
A raft of Washington-powered Republicans sought to rescue Strange in the closing days of the runoff campaign. A super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars for additional negative television ads against Moore. Trump held a mega-rally for Strange in Huntsville on Friday and called into a local radio show on Monday, repeatedly butchering Moore's first name. Vice President Mike Pence planned to land in the state Monday evening for an 11th-hour event on behalf of Strange at the Birmingham airport.
The cavalry might not be enough – partly because the deeply religious and socially conservative Moore has attracted his own formidable troops who exemplify the most animated segment of the party right now.
Last week, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka at a rally to whip up enthusiasm for Moore. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon will appear on Sean Hannity's Fox program Monday night from the site of Moore's closing campaign event. And even before those luminaries got involved, Moore had acquired a loyal following for his defiance of modern culture and his emphasis on the importance of God in government.
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Moore was kicked out of office twice - in Alabama!
There's "fringy" - and then there's FRINGY! 
They can't govern.
This will drive the moderate Republicans who came to work for the American people to deal with the moderate Democrats.
If we could get back earmarks and pork-barrel spending (you know, like Cassidy-Graham specials for Alaska and Maine), we could get some things done! 
