by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
When a pair of prominent white supremacists like Steve Bannon and his flunky, Donald John Trump, can't muster enough political muscle to win a Senate race for a well known bigot in Alabama, of all places, well, that's big news - a story made all the more delicious by the fact that the once honorable Republican National Committee also weighed in with support and money for the homophobic, anti-Semitic, and alleged child abuser, Roy Moore.
Moore lost bigly to Democrat Doug Jones yesterday. The Jones' victory will decrease the Republican majority in the United States Senate from 52-48 to a razor-thin 51-49, and it couldn't happen to a sweeter bunch of guys.
Trump, in fact, has been on the losing end of the stick in Alabama twice now. He backed Alabama's appointed incumbent senator, Luther Strange, in the primary - an election that Strange lost to Roy Moore- and then became an enthusiastic supporter of Roy Moore in the general election. Two losses in Alabama is an odd position for a politician who fancies himself to be God's gift to backwoods white America.
The Republican National Committee is now also a two-time loser in Alabama, as is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Congressman Bradley Byrne of Alabama's 1st congressional district, was a guest on National Public Radio (NPR) this morning where he spoke about yesterday's Senate election in his state. Byrne, a Republican, said that although he is a personal friend on Senator-elect Doug Jones, he had voted a straight Republican ticket. He blamed yesterday's results on a series of party errors beginning with Governor Bently's problematic appointment of Attorney General Luther Strange to Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat last spring. Strange was in the process of investigating Bently, an investigation which he dropped when the governor elevated him to the Senate.
The next error, according to Congressman Bradley, came when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Luther Strange in the primary against Roy Moore, giving the impression that the national party was trying to impose its will on Alabama. Then, after Roy Moore became the official Republican nominee, the national party and McConnell initially distanced themselves from him and, in fact, looked for alternatives to supporting him.
Congressman Byrne seemed to think that his Alabama would recover and he predicted confidently that Doug Jones would lose his re-election bid in November of 2020 - or in Jeff Sessions-speak, "The South will rise again!"
Or, another way of looking at yesterday's results is that the Democratic Party is once again realizing the importance of campaigning everywhere (Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy), and the absolute need to organize, organize, organize!
Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a land where every adult was allowed and encouraged to vote? What a wonderful world this could be!
Citizen Journalist
When a pair of prominent white supremacists like Steve Bannon and his flunky, Donald John Trump, can't muster enough political muscle to win a Senate race for a well known bigot in Alabama, of all places, well, that's big news - a story made all the more delicious by the fact that the once honorable Republican National Committee also weighed in with support and money for the homophobic, anti-Semitic, and alleged child abuser, Roy Moore.
Moore lost bigly to Democrat Doug Jones yesterday. The Jones' victory will decrease the Republican majority in the United States Senate from 52-48 to a razor-thin 51-49, and it couldn't happen to a sweeter bunch of guys.
Trump, in fact, has been on the losing end of the stick in Alabama twice now. He backed Alabama's appointed incumbent senator, Luther Strange, in the primary - an election that Strange lost to Roy Moore- and then became an enthusiastic supporter of Roy Moore in the general election. Two losses in Alabama is an odd position for a politician who fancies himself to be God's gift to backwoods white America.
The Republican National Committee is now also a two-time loser in Alabama, as is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Congressman Bradley Byrne of Alabama's 1st congressional district, was a guest on National Public Radio (NPR) this morning where he spoke about yesterday's Senate election in his state. Byrne, a Republican, said that although he is a personal friend on Senator-elect Doug Jones, he had voted a straight Republican ticket. He blamed yesterday's results on a series of party errors beginning with Governor Bently's problematic appointment of Attorney General Luther Strange to Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat last spring. Strange was in the process of investigating Bently, an investigation which he dropped when the governor elevated him to the Senate.
The next error, according to Congressman Bradley, came when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Luther Strange in the primary against Roy Moore, giving the impression that the national party was trying to impose its will on Alabama. Then, after Roy Moore became the official Republican nominee, the national party and McConnell initially distanced themselves from him and, in fact, looked for alternatives to supporting him.
Congressman Byrne seemed to think that his Alabama would recover and he predicted confidently that Doug Jones would lose his re-election bid in November of 2020 - or in Jeff Sessions-speak, "The South will rise again!"
Or, another way of looking at yesterday's results is that the Democratic Party is once again realizing the importance of campaigning everywhere (Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy), and the absolute need to organize, organize, organize!
Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a land where every adult was allowed and encouraged to vote? What a wonderful world this could be!
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