Moore wins Republican Senate primary, dealing blow to GOP establishment
Source: Washington Post
A former state judge who believes Christian biblical morality should invalidate federal court decisions won the Alabama Republican primary Tuesday night, according to a projection by the Associated Press, sending a clear warning signal to President Trump and GOP leaders that conservative, grass-roots anger will continue to roil the party into the 2018 midterm elections.
Roy Moore, who was twice suspended from his job as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed to the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and was backed by both Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Moore is now the front-runner to win the seat in a Dec. 12 general election. He will face Democratic candidate Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney in Alabama.
For conservative opponents of the current Republican leadership, the victory was a godsend literally, for many and a validation of the larger effort to replace the current leadership of the Republican Party with a more populist crowd.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/moore-vs-strange-polling-opens-in-alabama-republican-primary/2017/09/25/9c7192f8-a253-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?utm_term=.efd6f42709bc
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)Moore is the wingnut of wingnuts.
kevink077
(365 posts)In a perfect storm. If Dems really pull out all of the stops to GOTV, and get a percentage of moderate republicans, and disgruntled Strange voters staying home, they could pull this out.
Or am I pipe dreaming?
al_liberal
(420 posts)The dark lord Satan himself could run as a Republican and hed win in a landslide here.
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)nt
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nycbos
(6,034 posts)Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Lets say he gets 56 million dollars and rather than wasting the money on oversaturated airwaves, and lining the pockets of a couple rich guys, he dumps it all into field he wins. 56 million is a lot of street money, people wil vote when your the guy who gave their cousin a well paying job for a few months.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Because the rest of the GOP was just too sane for some people.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)bluestarone
(16,959 posts)another NUTJOB
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)If Moore wins in December.
Think Trump can count on Moore in an Impeachment trial? After coming to Alabama to campaign for his opponent?
Moore would probably love to put fellow Doomsday Cult Theocrat, Pense, in charge of the Armageddon Button.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)Between the evangelicals and rascists he's got it sewn up.
The sad thing is people like him delegitimizes government advocating it works against them instead of working for the people. Charlatans like twitler and Moore step into that void.
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)WTF does that mean?
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)It's EXTREMELY annoying to hear crackpot teavangelicals called "populist." That term should mean someone who represents the common man and works for the good of the people. It seems to be used instead to denote just an extremist who irritates the powers that be.
And while we're on the subject of misleading terminology, the media needs to stop calling what the russians did in the last election "meddling", which sounds merely sort of annoying. Call it what it is--sabotage or at least disruption or interference.
And, geez, moore is a lunatic. What are the people of AL doing??? The GOPee's long campaign to dumb down the population and ensure they don't understand how government works is succeeding a little too well.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)the public voices (and print) are wimps at best, cowards at worst.
They will not say "attacked" or "overthrew" until the Mueller
investigation forces them to, because the implications for TPTB, especially Trump, are historic.
And that scares those who prefer to recite or print government handouts.
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)What "Christian biblical morality" that is not found in other religions?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)espouses, e. g., turning the other cheek. J/S.)
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)And we see how well that's been working out. NOT!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)DoubleAgentOrange
(81 posts)Looks like the GOPeon Tribe has split into two Klans.
Will it be the Trumpanzees or the Moorans who ultimately prevail?
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)I am so sick and fucking tired of the media and the Retrumplican party playing "BAD-COP/WORSE COP".
Let me set the fucking media straight...There is not one damn gnats hair of daylight between Roy Moore and the ReTrumplican Party
If they were dancing at a Prom somewhere in the Bible-Belt, the chaperones would have to make them hold a balloon on their bellies when they slow danced to make sure they don't fuck right there on the dance-floor.
Roy Moore and Trump are the Frankenstein Monsters that the Retrumplicans hatched from their 40 year AM Hate-Radio laboratories.
They cultivated this. They nurtured this. They coddled this against their bosoms.
Even Susan Collins is just Roy Moore with better hair in a dress. Fuck her too.
This disgusting, racist piece of primordial shit is not a "blow to the GOP establishment"...it's a result of the blow-job they've given to folks like Roy Moore for over 40 years.
Moore didn't win the "Batshit Insane" Party Primary!
He didn't win the "Lawless Theocrat" Party Primary!
He didn't win the "Racist Asshat" Party Primary!
He won the ReTrumplican Party Primary!
Mitch, Donnie, Paul, John, Lindsay, Ted, Susan, Lisa....you own this fuckstick
Enjoy!