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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM - Josh Marshall "Republicans, You Built This - This Being Roy Moore"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/republicans-you-built-this-this-being-roy-moore#more-1095901By JOSH MARSHALL Published NOVEMBER 15, 2017 10:39 PM
Late this afternoon, two more women came forward with stories about Judge Roy Moore. Not long after that, Moore (or whoever is running his campaign account) tweeted this.
Dear Mitch McConnell,
Bring. It. On.
Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 16, 2017
Moore is managing to make an all or nothing, fight on principle over a growing list of allegations that he spent much of his thirties cruising the mall and local high schools trying to pick up high school girls and sometimes went as far as assaulting them. Its a weird point of principle to say the least. But Moore is at least trying to make the allegations against him a secondary point in a battle between Moore as a true godly conservative and Mitch McConnell as the embodiment of the DC Swamp, coastal elites and RINO contempt for real Americans.
There seems to be little substantial erosion of Moores core support, at least so far. But in looking at this we need to see how the GOP didnt just find itself in this situation. To paraphrase the 2012 line: they built this.
A year and a half ago, when talking about then candidate Donald Trump, I talked about the pattern
This crystallized for me after the last GOP debate when Trump told Chris Cuomo in a post-debate interview that the IRS might be coming after him because hes a strong Christian. Set aside for the moment how this unchurched libertine was able to rebrand himself as a strong Christian. What about the preposterous claim that he is being persecuted by the IRS because he is a devout member of the countrys dominant religion? Republicans simply arent in any position to criticize this ludicrous claim because they have spent years telling their voters that this sort of thing happens all the time to Christians, conservatives, everyone the liberals at the IRS hate. And this, of course, is just one example of hate and nonsense debt coming due. Shift gears now and theyre RINOs.
Moore is simply using the tools, tropes, and resentment politics Republican politicians have devised and honed and used now for decades only hes using it against them. Its like an engineered virus which has escaped the lab. Its very similar to what the same people faced again and again trying to grapple with Trump who remains notably silent.
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TPM - Josh Marshall "Republicans, You Built This - This Being Roy Moore" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2017
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Tansy_Gold
(17,892 posts)1. Rachel Maddow had it correct tonight
Moore will be elected by the citizens of Alabama. The U.S. Senate will back off and seat him, and will do nothing to expel him. He will serve in the U.S. Senate until he dies.
R.I.P., U.S.A.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)3. That may be true, but stranger things have happened..perhaps
he will not be elected for one reason: the women in Alabama will vote as a block against this pervert. Forget the polls ...When election day arrives, in mass, women vote for the other person, not a pervert
Other things can happen, the election is in about a month. Time will tell.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)4. Yep. The GOP cannot stop the monsters they have unleashed
Moore will win by a touchdown and a field goal
The rest of the GOPers will cower with shaking knees before a pervert, just like they do with Trump
He could molest their own daughters while they watch and do nothing
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)2. Frankenroytrump
Can somebody put Moores face on this?
ThreeSome?