"Firebrand jurist Moore wins GOP primary runoff in Alabama"
Via AP: "
Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by President Donald Trump and allies of Sen. Mitch McConnell."
In an upset likely to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 special election.
Throughout the campaign, Moore argued the election was an opportunity to send a message to the "elite Washington establishment" that he said was trying to influence the race. The Senate Leadership Fund, a group with ties to McConnell, had spent an estimated $9 million trying to secure the nomination for Strange.
Meanwhile,
Senator Bob Corker (R) announces he will not seek reelection.
Sen. Bob Corker, who has at times served as an ally and a critic of President Donald Trump, will not seek re-election next year.
The 65-year-old Republican from Tennessee announced his decision on Tuesday. Corker, who was first elected in 2006, said he told people then that he "couldn't imagine serving more than two terms."
"I also believe the most important public service I have to offer our country could well occur over the next 15 months, and I want to be able to do that as thoughtfully and independently as I did the first 10 years and nine months of my Senate career," the senator said in a statement.
The vacancy in Tennessee opens a long-shot opportunity for Democrats in a traditionally red state.
20 comments:
Let's find a real conservative for Tennessee too...
I'm not sure I see the problem here. The GOPe did this themselves.
When did the GOP start hating their fans?
Toss in Songbird and things are looking up in the Senate.
chickelit said...
I'm not sure I see the problem here.
Because there is none.
When did the GOP start hating their fans?
Before the NFL started hating their fans. GOP was ahead of the game on hating their fans. It was probably earlier, like when Bob Dole got the nomination, or when Bush added the new gas tax he promised not to add. But it definitely started by 2005, when a combination of Congressional majorities and a GOP President couldn't get fiscal conservative measures passed (had to add fiscal, because they passed the short lived defense of marriage act, which just hastened the demise of the multi-millennial concept of marriage). Thus began the rise of Pork Busters followed by the TEA Party, which were despised by the GOP.
It's Strange or Moore Strange.
McConnell wanted a stooge he could control. The GOPe fear Moore, worried some actual Christian might pull an Akin or something and mess things up. Plus Moore does not have the heavy "feed" instinct, that the GOPe wants to cultivate in its followers (better to control you).
Surber said Trump went along with this as a "favor" to Mitch. Favor done. But Trump also hedged his bets by giving weak support to Strange and some of his allies supporting Moore. Plus Moore will work with Trump way better than moderate GOPers will.
The lesson here: the base is paying attention. Which is also why Trump went heavy on the NFL thing, he knows it plays with the base.
Sadly, Trump has been sucked into the suckage of the McConnell suck-factory. Trump stumped for the loser, GOPe Strange.
I wonder what Sherbert has to say about it?
Oh come on Dickin' you are just stirin the Schadenfreude pot now. Guess what, Strange is behind Trump like a one night stand.
And Roy Moore will be loyaler to Trump than McConnell ever will be.
Corker doesn't fear a challenge from an actual conservative. Oh no, Corker is a man of such perfect integrity that he is simply fulfilling his pledge not to serve more than two terms. Ha ha, the AP is such high comedy. Plus, AP sees Moore's victory in Alabama as an opening for a Democrat in Tennessee! You can't top the grotesquerie at AP and the rest of the MSM. Quake in your boots RINO's and Dems! Foreboding, you should all be filled with deep foreboding....those of you with half-a-brain that is.
If Medusa wondered what Surber thought, she could have gone to his website, to which I have linked any number of times and found he agrees 100% with E.
And the word is sherbet. Lord Byron speaks of Turkish baths as "palaces of sherbets and sodomy".
Trump has to take his lumps when he goes against his nationalist base.
Bannon and Moore are trying to give him a soft landing. But if he persists? If he gives amnesty? Doesn't build the Wall? Doesn't stop the never ending wars in the Middle East? Starts a new big war in Asia?
He will be destroyed. Rightfully so. No amount of excuse making will save his ass.
This was a shot across his bow. Bannon and the Nationalists will be running candidates in many primaries. They won't win in every case. But they will win in more than enough to have a block in the House and the Senate to influence legislation.
Trump needs to wise up or he will be toast.
This is still a win for Trump. I'm not seeing it as a negative. He'll reach out to Moore if he hasn't already. It's about doing business.
I don't see it as a real loss.
Just a warning.
Many will say it's a win-win.
He keeps peace with Mitch and gets another guy who likes his agenda.
YMMV
Corker - thank you.
McCain - drop dead.
I'm not disappointed that Moore won. I'm happy about it.
I'm disapointed that Trump got sucked into the McConnell insider DC suck-train of suckage.
So unnecessary.
I'm not making that big of a deal - just that hitching your wagon to anything McConnell wants is a bad sign.
The good news today is that Trump's speech in Indiana about tax reform was very good.
Trump was sucked into nothing. He made a gesture and, if you look at how little he did, you realize how ephemeral it was.
Trump's man won.
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