Hey everyone! First off, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I sure did. Got to spend a lot with my new baby niece and the family and back in Pittsburgh and I can’t wait to go back home for Christmas time. Ok, let’s jump right into it. First off, this fucking guy:
President Donald Trump is again coming to the side of GOP Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore despite calls from other Republican leaders that Moore should leave the race over accusations of decades-old sexual assault.
In a pair of tweets Sunday morning, Mr. Trump said "the last thing we need" in Alabama and the Senate is a "puppet" of the Democratic congressional leadership.
Mr. Trump contends Moore's opponent, Democrat Doug Jones -- a former prosecutor -- is "WEAK" on crime and border security, "BAD" for the military, veterans, gun rights, and itching to raise taxes "TO THE SKY."
"Jones would be a disaster!" Mr. Trump wrote in one tweet, adding in another that "Liberal Jones would be BAD!"
Two women have accused the 70-year-old Moore of sexually assaulting or molesting them decades ago, when he was in his 30s and they were teenagers. At least five others have said he pursued romantic relationships when they were teenagers and he was a prosecutor. Moore vehemently denies the allegations.
Before departing for his Mar-a-Lago estate ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Mr. Trump also spoke about Jones and the vacant Alabama Senate seat, telling reporters of the Alabama race, "we don't need a liberal person in there."
"I can tell you one thing for sure, we don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat, Jones," Mr. Trump said. "I've looked at his record — it's terrible on crime. It's terrible at the borders. I can tell you, we do not need somebody that's going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad with the military, bad with the Second Amendment."
That’s right, Trump is playing trying to play up this whole narrative that a pedophile is better than a Democrat. Trump is really trying to play up the tribalistic mentality of conservative Alabama voters and it could help Moore win. But there’s one key group that shows signs of doing the right thing:
Each side, relying at times on the candidates’ wives to make their case, is presenting female voters with an awkward choice regarding their vote Dec. 12: Stand by a man accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward teenage girls when he was in his 30s, or vote for a Democrat with liberal views on abortion and other issues and whose victory could imperil the Senate’s Republican majority.
Both campaigns consider these women potentially critical, particularly for Jones, whose high-wire strategy in this deeply conservative state depends on peeling away a segment of Republican voters from Moore in addition to mobilizing a massive turnout of African Americans and other core Democratic voters.
In Huntsville, a fast-growing and highly educated “rocket city,” Doug Jones signs have sprung up in cul-de-sacs where President Trump and other Republicans have won easily.
In interviews, suburban Republican women who back Jones said they did not want to face this choice. Suzanne Turner, the chair of the English Department at Calhoun Community College in Huntsville, stressed that she went to church every Sunday and helped raise money for Republican Jeff Sessions when he ran for Senate.
“I’d like to see someone in there who’d support Trump, but I believe the women” who have accused Moore, said Turner, 67. “I put a Doug Jones sign in my yard. I felt a little sick doing that. But I had to.”
The Jones campaign has stepped up its outreach to suburban women, with events such as Louise Jones’s coffee visits, designed for undecided voters. A television ad that began running last week portrays eight of Moore’s accusers and asks if voters will “make their abuser a U.S. senator.” A digital ad, also running heavily, lingers on each photo, and accuses Moore of “immoral” behavior.
Moore has denied the allegations. His campaign, which was massively outspent on the air even before national Republicans abandoned it, has begun to fight back. In its latest ad, Republican women defend Moore, saying that “the establishment is trying to stop” him.
Recent polling suggests that, among women, Jones is making gains. In a Fox News Channel survey released after most of the accusers went public, Jones had an eight-point lead over Moore, based largely on a surge with female voters. The percentage of women in the state who had a favorable view of Moore dropped 11 points between mid-October and mid-November, from 47 percent to 36 percent; among men, Moore dropped by just two points.
Just like what we saw in Virginia, suburban women and black voters are the ones that can decide this race:
The challenge for Jones is clear. According to Democrats working on the race, Jones, who is white, must secure more than 90 percent of the black vote while boosting black turnout to account for between 25 and 30 percent of the electorate — similar to the levels that turned out for Barack Obama, the country’s first black president.
As a result, Jones and his allies are waging an aggressive outreach campaign. It includes targeted radio and online advertisements, billboards and phone calls. Campaign aides are debating whether to ask former first lady Michelle Obama to record a phone message for black voters.
The message emphasizes that Jones prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members who bombed a black church in Birmingham in 1963.
The Jones campaign expects to intensify its black outreach in the final stretch. Among the messages under consideration for radio ads and already included in mailers that have been produced, according to campaign officials, are reminders that Moore once opposed removing segregationist language from the state constitution and expressed doubt that Obama was born in the United States.
The other thing to remember, like pretty much everything else, Trump is making this race all about himself:
Mr. Trump’s decision to reject every long-shot plan to save the Senate seatreflects the imperative that an unpopular president faces to retain his political base, a determination that he should follow his own instincts after having felt steered into a disastrous earlier endorsement in the Alabama race, and even his insistence that he himself has been the victim of false accusations of sexual misconduct.
But in tying himself to Mr. Moore even as congressional leaders have abandoned the candidate en masse, the president has reignited hostilities with his own party just as Senate Republicans are rushing to pass a politically crucial tax overhaul. Mr. McConnell and his allies have been particularly infuriated as Mr. Trump has reacted with indifference to a series of ideas they have floated to try to block Mr. Moore.
The accusations against Mr. Moore have lifted Democrats’ hopes of notching a rare victory in the Deep South in next month’s special election, which would narrow the Republican Senate majority to a single seat. Just as significantly, the president has handed the Democrats a political weapon with which to batter Republicans going into the midterm elections: that they tolerate child predation.
“I was surprised, and I think it’s a high-risk move,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has established a rapport with Mr. Trump.
As Mr. Moore has rejected calls to drop out even as more women have accused him of preying on them when they were teenagers, Republicans have given up any hope that he will fold his campaign. Mr. Trump has repeatedly told his aides that he does not believe Mr. Moore would ever quit.
What the president did not foresee was that the friction would reach inside his immediate family. He vented his annoyance when his daughter Ivanka castigated Mr. Moore by saying there was “a special place in hell for people who prey on children,” according to three staff members who heard his comments.
“Do you believe this?” Mr. Trump asked several aides in the Oval Office. Mr. Moore’s Democratic opponent in the Alabama race, Doug Jones, quickly turned her comments into a campaign ad.
But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)
So, of course, the Sexual Predator-In-Chief wants to help a Pedophile become a Senator because he can’t look like a loser and he sympathizes with Moore because damn near everyone was calling him to step aside. Of course, Trump had Russia, WikiLeaks and voter suppression to help him out and this is a different ball game here. Now I have been loving how Jones isn’t holding back on going after Moore:
And kudos to Charles Barkley for this:
NBA Hall of Famer and Alabama native Charles Barkley said over the weekend that congressional candidate Roy Moore should have been disqualified "way before this women stuff came up" because of his association with Steve Bannon.
Speaking to a small group of reporters before Saturday's Alabama-Auburn football game, Barkley referred to Bannon, the former White House strategist and leader of Breitbart News, as a "white separatist."
"Roy Moore is running with Steve Bannon as his right-hand man, who is a white separatist," Barkley said. "I'm not even going to get into the women stuff. But the guy — how can you be a white separatist and represent all the constituents in your state? I mean, everybody is going crazy over this sexual allegations, but Roy Moore, to me, when he brought in Steve Bannon, should have been disqualified."
We already have a Sexual Predator in the White House. Do we really need a Pedophile in the U.S. Senate? No, we don’t. So let’s show that Republicans aren’t safe, even on their home turf, and punish Trump big time. Click here to donate and get involved and donate to Jones’ campaign.