(December 12, 2017 at 11:51 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: While it's a great victory, it still pisses me off that so many fucking pricks would vote for a child predator.
Alabama is a red state (folks don't seem to hold that idea in their heads for very long for some reason) and that the Alabama Dems felt compelled to put up such an unpalatable candidate is concerning.
"Winning' by less than 25000 votes against such an awful candidate demonstrates just how far out of step the Alabama dem poohbahs are.
Gee, why after the 2016 fiasco would anyone anywhere ever think running such a marginally possible candidate was a good idea.
And Jones only has 3 years to impress his red state voters of all stripes until he has to run again. And I'm sure during those 3 years Jones is going to experience ENORMOUS pressure to vote as though he were elected from California or Massachusetts by Schumer and Pelosi. Both of them much preferring an R in that seat instead of a re-electable Dem who can only deliver 80-85% of the time.
Pains me to point this out, but events proceed for REALITY, not our fantasies and dreams. And the reality is, Jones is a red state Dem and he's virtually guaranteed to be running against a considerably less flawed candidate than Moore in just 3 years.
Enjoy the seat while it's blue, but don't expect it to stay blue if no one can see the diffy between Pelosi or Jones in that seat.
It's a red state people, and business as usual is means that blue seat in the senate is as precarious as anything, and no one in the Dem hierarchy is going to give that inconvenient truth much credence.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
