As for the open Alabama seat, Trump has remained unusually quiet, ignoring questions from reporters. But today, he couldn’t help himself. BREAKING: Trump discounts allegations against Republican Roy Moore and says, ‘We don’t need a liberal person in there.’ — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 21, 2017 This is worth noting because WH spokesperson Sarah Sanders had said on several occasions … Read More
The Moore Accuser Count Is Up To 8
Via WaPo: 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 … Read More
More More Moore (How Do You Like It?)
Roy Moore is now adopting the “best defense is a good offense” strategy. He is setting up to hit the Washington Post with a lawsuit over the allegations that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl while Moore was in his 30’s. According to AP, Moore told his supporters in Huntsville, Alabama on Sunday that the WaPo story was “fake news” and … Read More
More Fallout From More Pedophilia
Republican Alabama State Representative Ed Henry said on Friday that he wanted someone to bring charges against the women who accused GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of making sexual advances on them when they were teenage. This has brought huge backlash against Henry, naturally. Vulnerable GOP Senator: Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Roger Ailes, Roy Moore… No MOORE… pic.twitter.com/X15JbUs26G — Barbara … Read More
Roy Moore Sex Scandal
The woman is a god-fearing, Trump-voting Republican: Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore. It was early 1979 and Moore — now the Republican nominee in … Read More
Election 2017
Yes, it is an off off year for elections, but what happens today is a good bellwether for what will happen in the midterm elections in 2018. There was some concern that the Democrats might not do too well. Polls in some states were very close. But it looks like Democrats have done very very well, and this spells very … Read More
Teflon Don? Not So Much
Politico, this morning: Teflon Don confounds Democrats Democrats tried attacking Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency. They’ve made the case that he’s ineffective, pointing to his failure to sign a single major piece of legislation into law after eight months in the job. They’ve argued that Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, and that his campaign was … Read More
Five Types Of Trump Voters
This is from June. I like this because it recognizes that Trump voters are all not the same. The Disengaged grouping is smaller than I imagined (only 5%) but I think Dems can take a whack at them and at the Anti-Elistists in 2018. Anyway, bookmark this:
GA-6 Fallout
Ossoff lost in the 6th District of Georgia last night. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Handel leads Ossoff 53 percent to 47 percent in a race that many expected to be much closer. Handel had 127,021 votes to the Democrat’s 114,390 ballots. And so now the Republicans are gloating… Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want … Read More
Good News In The Offing
(1) Georgia On My Mind In Georgia 6th district, the special election to replace Tom Price in the House, Jon Ossoff received 48.1 percent of the vote, just short of the 50 percent threshold needed to win the seat, and he will face Karen Handel, the top Republican vote-getter, in a June runoff. This is a terrific showing from a … Read More
Vote Your Ossoff
Voters in a suburban Atlanta congressional district will decide today whether Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff will win outright a special election for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in a district the Republican Party has held since 1979. The closely watched contest has drawn national attention as the first political bellwether of the Trump era, after the district nearly … Read More
Was Trump Wrong About Orlando Shooter Motive? (Were We All?)
Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016 Just a second there, stupid politician man. Palm Beach Post: A former classmate of Omar Mateen’s 2006 police academy class said he believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once … Read More