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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 07:28 PM

OUR VIEW: Roy Moore's Defeat Very Ugly For Republicans, State of Alabama, But For Wrong Reasons

"We have come so far and the people of Alabama have spoken," Jones said during a victory speech in Birmingham late Tuesday. In a speech earlier on Monday Jones said this fight was about "decency" for the good people of Alabama. I just love it when Democrats use words they don't understand or embrace themselves but more on that in a minute.

Moore refused to concede late last night but in reality it's over but the shouting.
Other Republicans, including President Trump have already accepted the outcome. In a tweet, President Trump congratulated Jones on his “hard fought victory.”

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!

Moore needs to lose like a man, go home, and take a long look in the mirror and in my humble opinion disappear off the political landscape for a while. This has been a brutal assault upon him and his family unlike anything I have personally seen in all my lifetime.

It was certainly the ugliest assault on a man's character and past since I started understanding politics going back to a social studies classroom in Bainbridge Georgia with the late Jack Kendrick as my teacher. Mr. Kendrick had us write about the 1980 election then comparing Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Jack Anderson (yes, I'm sure you don't remember him, he was the "independent no name" on the ballot then. Impressive that I do right? - EYE ROLL)
Politics in 1980 were so much different than they have become in 2017.

Yes, personalities and character attacks played a role in some elections make no mistake. For the most part we listened to what the candidates had to say about their positions, not the mud that was being slung at them. So much has changed sadly that what has emerged is an ugly, ugly enterprise of what the former rapist in chief Bill Clinton once glibly called "the politics of personal destruction."

President Trump made an interesting observation of Roy Moore's defeat Tuesday night stating that "the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win,” Trump said. Some 22K of them to be exact. Roy Moore lost the election to Jones by 20K. You do the math. Let’s face it. The ugly allegations, the searing national spotlight, and a divided GOP all took their toll on Moore last night as he lost for sadly all the wrong reasons.

Moore, who fairly or unfairly came to personify a suspected predator in a #MeToo climate, seemed poised to overcome the negative wave with last-minute presidential backing. Few pundits were willing to place their chips on Democrat Doug Jones, given the emotional connection between Moore and his conservative base. In addition, Doug Jones was not without indictments against his own character having gleefully told an Alabama radio station earlier this week that he had absolutely no problem supporting abortion of a baby even at the ninth month of pregnancy.

For a candidate that declared this was an election about “decency,” this was a real decent position for such a loathsome piece of humanity willing to agree it’s ok to murder at baby at nine months.

The degree to which the Alabama contest became a referendum on sexual misconduct, religious values, the media, the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the state itself was also truly remarkable.
Even Moore’s interesting past—twice getting kicked off the state Supreme Court for not following the law of the land, saying homosexuality should be illegal—was largely overshadowed. Moore was also the judge who refused to take down the Ten Commandments off a Montgomery courthouse. In the world's eyes those things were bad.

In God's eyes, I'd argue those stands Moore took were good.

I truly believe it was Moore's Christian background that brought out the swamp and my friend there were and are some mean, and I mean ugly alligators in this swamp.

The reddest of red states, which the president carried by 28 points, was being asked to vote for a deep-blue Democrat to make sure Moore never made it to Washington. Even veteran Republican senator Richard Shelby urged his state not to vote for Moore. Shelby should be ashamed for doing that.

He and Mitch McConnell, who actively threatened Moore with expulsion had he won the election, deserve each other at this juncture. Guess they can sit down and have tea with Doug Jones now and beg him to help the Republicans pass tax reform and health care in 2018.
Here's the ugly part and the part that leaves me sick inside the day after following this stunning loss by Moore.

The former judge was forced to respond just a few weeks ago to a barrage of harassment allegations by nine women—most of whom said he pursued or accosted them as teenagers.
Let's take a snap shot of the persons involved in these allegations.

• Roy Moore. Born in 1947. He moved out of Gadsden, Ala., in 1954, returning after his service in Vietnam in 1977. He joined the office of the district attorney that year. In 1982, he again left Gadsden, returning in 1985, the year he married his wife, Kayla. She was 24, and he was 38. In 1992, he was appointed to the circuit court.
• Leigh Corfman. Born in 1965. Corfman alleges that in 1977, when she was 14, Moore introduced himself to her outside a child custody hearing at the local courthouse. He later called her and asked her on a date, during which, she alleges, he took her to his house and tried to initiate sexual contact. Moore was 32.
• Wendy Miller. Born in 1963. Miller alleges that Moore first started talking to her while she was working as an elf at Gadsden Mall at the age of 14. Two years later, he began to ask her on dates. Her mother prevented her from doing so. Moore was 32.
• Debbie Gibson. Born in 1964. Gibson alleges that Moore came to her civics class at Etowah High School to talk about serving as an assistant district attorney before asking her out on a date. They dated for several months while she was 17. Moore was 34.
• Gloria Thacker. Born in 1961. Thacker alleges that she was working at a store at the mall at the age of 18 when Moore asked her out. They dated off and on for several months. Moore was 32.
• Beverly Young Nelson. Born in 1961. Nelson was 16 when she worked at a restaurant called Old Hickory House in 1977. Moore, she said during a news conference this week, was a regular customer who, at one point, signed her high school yearbook. On one evening, he offered her a ride home. Nelson alleges that he instead drove behind the restaurant and assaulted her. Moore was 30.
• Gena Richardson. Born in 1959. Richardson alleges that she was working at Gadsden Mall in 1977, at age 18, when Moore introduced himself. He called her at school, interrupting her trigonometry class, to ask her out. He was 30.
• Tina Johnson. Born in 1963. Johnson told AL.com that she was 28 when she visited Moore’s office for a legal issue in 1991. Moore, she says, made several inappropriate comments and, as she was leaving, groped her. He was 44.

Moore specifically denied the allegations levied by Corfman and Nelson, who found Jesus a few days ago in admitting she doctored the writing in the yearbook she offered as proof of her claims with Gloria loser Alred by her side.

This was his word against the word of nine women coming forward nearly 35-40 years after the fact these alleged incidents took place. Moore had no way to defend himself against them as being lies.

The women ironically had no way to prove they were truth. It came down to who the people of Alabama believed and it seemed that enough of them believed these allegations were true and 22 thousand of them wrote in a name other than Roy Moore in their statement of belief. Even those who voted for Moore voted for him more out of loyalty to President Trump than voting for him according to most exit polls.

According to these polls, six in 10 Moore voters say Trump’s support was a factor in their decision. And there was an uber-partisan split about the harassment allegations, with 89 percent of Jones voters calling them true and 86 percent of Moore voters branding them false (with 8 percent believing the accounts but supporting Moore anyway).

The analysis also showed that 59 percent of voters thought Jones had strong moral character, while 57 percent said Moore didn't. That 59 percent is just astounding that a baby-murdering advocate would be seen as having strong moral character. What in the living hell has gone wrong with this nation and yes what was in the minds of those voting last night in the state of Alabama? Strong moral character?

Doug Jones believes in baby murder. Roy Moore believes in standing up for traditional marriage and the Ten Commandments. Evil was seen as good and good was seen as evil last night and that disturbs me greatly in the clean up of the morning after this debacle.

I guess we will find out now who was telling the truth and who wasn't by those accusing Roy Moore of these hideous allegations. I still cannot stomach the fact things from a man's past 40 years ago were drug out to destroy him after NONE of these things were mentioned or even whispered in four other elections Moore was involved in. Not one time during his time on the Alabama bench were they mentioned. Yet NINE women get their memory back in 2017 and Roy Moore is suddenly a pedophile?
Well now there are no more politics involved and no need for the media to protect those accusing a good man of things 40 years in his past.

Maybe now we can find out what was truth and what was lies. Being clear of the politics of things is always a good tonic for truth. If I had been Moore I’d sued every one of them and forced them to say these things under oath. I am certain the stories would have changed or even recanted in some, if not all cases. One things for sure. If they lied to a grand jury or under oath they would spend time in prison and not in front of CNN, NBC and MSNBC talk shows and news casts.

I'm also sure Gloria Alred is still in Alabama today continuing her search for Roy Moore victims! I mean if this man is as bad as they portrayed him to be in the media and campaign someone needs to stick around and see if any more women have been healed of amnesia and attacked by this so-called pedophile. (Shaking my head)

It's sick and pathetic. It's ugly and deeply sad this has happened to a good man and his family. The Democrats have no shame, but mark my word, this is not the last time they will try this because they saw last night that it worked in Alabama a deep red state and it will be done again in the future.

That's the left's new playbook - accuse and slander without proof and get the media behind us. You're all set if the people buy the lie. Saul Alinsky, the great mentor of Jones’ former boss Hillary Clinton, once said “if you tell a lie long enough, the people will finally believe it.” 22K Alabamians it seemed did last night.

To the 22K Alabamians who wrote in other names last night in an election won by 20K votes I hope you're proud you just put someone in DC who supports abortion at 9 months, hates tax cuts, is pro-gun control, endorses the killing of babies without blushing, and who was funded and backed by George Soros and others who only want one thing and one thing only - the destruction of Donald J. Trump.

In Doug Jones' warped and wicked mind "decency won." Decency did not win Tuesday night in Alabama. An evil agenda did because people acted like Pharisees and judges of Roy Moore instead of stepping back and realizing that if Roy Moore actually did these things then yes, they were certainly evil. But Doug Jones’ radical left agenda on crime, his Communist approach to business, hatred of freedom when it comes to gun-control, and the killing of babies at nine months were also evil.

You can't call one situation evil without saying the other is too. Again, sickening.

Enjoy the seat you won by gutter politics Democrats. I assure you that you won't hold it long enough for Jones' backside to get warm in the chair he plans to sit in.

Doug Jones himself is about to find out Washington D.C. is truly a swamp infested region of wicked, evil men with wicked, evil agendas. He will be chewed up and spit out by the same establishment that used him as a pawn to destroy Roy Moore.

These women who accused Moore are about to be cut loose too. You won’t hear from them ever again telling their sick stories to anyone else. No one cares any more. The election was won and the reason for their stories was fulfilled. Take a bow. You struck a blow for all the true victims of sexual abuse out there. You too should be proud.

The people of Alabama spoke but what the reasons behind why they voted for Jones in most cases was not very pretty. It was ugly. Very ugly.

And now a George Soros-backed liberal left-wing Democrat who embraces an evil agenda will represent Alabama in the Senate.

Editor's Note: President Trump has come out Wednesday saying Luther Strange should have been running against Doug Jones. Luther Strange was not the people's choice. He was defeated by Roy Moore. Moore was Alabama's choice for the Republican nomination before the sexual harassment allegations. You do the math.

 

Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge

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