BREAKING: Mitch McConnell "I believe the women." Moore should step down. UPDATED

[VermontKevin]

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That means this little press conference is a doozy:

https://articles.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_alabama_sex_claims.amp


UPDATED:

MOORE RESPONDS:

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[Turbineguy]

1. McConnell has enough problems.

But it's not in Moore's nature to concede.

On edit:

[Wwcd]

2. Rofl! That look on Mitch's face

C'mon Mitch, what's the matter? Isn't this is who you represent?

Is Mitch afraid of Allred, & Doug Jones' rapid rise to fame?

Uh oh!

[Aristus]

3. Can someone tell me what the hell an Alabaman is doing wearing a cowboy hat?

The cowboys were all out west: Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Montana.

Shouldn't an Alabaman be wearing a plantation hat? He would no doubt offend ever more people that way, which is no doubt his intention.

[AtheistCrusader]

47. There are ranches and cattle operations in pretty much every state. Even Alaska.

Riding horses is part of his 'down home' common man shtick, which he is using to paper over his asshole child rapist nature.

[Aristus]

49. Which is why I don't trust anyone who wears a cowboy hat and isn't an actual cowboy.

I respect real cowboys, people who rope cattle for a living. They do a very tough, dirty, dangerous job for not a lot of money.

But poseurs? Well fuck 'em...

[Ms. Toad]

52. Not all real cowboys rope cattle.

-daughter and granddaughter of real cowboys who did not rope cattle, and niece of a real cowboy who did. Two of them wore/wear cowboy hats.

Whether roping the cattle you're raising is involved or not, being a cowboy is very tough, dirty, dangerous work - and you are correct it pays a pittance. I remember the year I earned $18,000 a few years out of college (circa 1983) - and in a conversation with my father learned he, for the first time ever, also earned $18,000 that year after around 30 years of farming/ranching. Mom didn't work outside the home, and the two of them raised 5 kids on that income.

[Madam45for2923]

4. Even though I dislike him, I like that he said that. I cannot stand having child rape normalized.

[Freethinker65]

5. Does he believe Trump?

[unblock]

6. he doesn't believe the women, he doesn't care about the women.

he does believe the way this is playing out in the media is not good for the republicans in general, and *that's* why he wants moore gone.

[VermontKevin]

9. Oh, he does believe the women. He knows it happened. Just now it is expedient for

him to "care."

[Chasstev365]

7. Oh, BULL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!! He just doesn't want to lose the Senate seat!

[VermontKevin]

8. I think he knows he lost it.

3 days is enough for their internal polling to come back.

[Wwcd]

16. Is this election on Dec 12th? It's coming up fast

The rallying cry for another Dem Senate seat win, & in AL no less, has to be nonstop until the 12th.

McConnel sees the upcoming defeat .

[VermontKevin]

20. Even if they squeak it out, the seating war will damage every single Republican race in 2018.

[Wwcd]

32. Indeed it will. This win would be an enormous blow to all the gop stands for

Jones is rapidly becoming the champion of civil & human rights & his impact, should he grab the seat on Dec12, speaks for every demographic that Trump has sought to oppress.
Women at the forefront in this particular case, but be sure that with that door opened via Jones' s win, would be followed by a shattering of those floodgates by every group called out by Trump & his loyal GOP.

THAT is what America looks like & THAT is the basic core of the Democratic Party.
Human rights

I'll donate again today.

[VermontKevin]

33. If Moore wins, the Senate needs to invoke a seating war. Make every single Senator

justify seating him.

[Wwcd]

43. Ahhh Yes! Like a nice handy medal to hang around their necks

Make them say his name

[VermontKevin]

44. Alabamatross.

[3catwoman3]

46. Excellent!

I love clever neologisms.

[Wwcd]

50. Haaahaa 😉 Post Winner

Moore, the alabamatross of the GOP

[Sanity Claws]

10. Something is going on.

McConnell has zero morals or ethics. If he is saying something like this, there is some ulterior purpose involved.
I wonder McConnell is somehow responsible for the story getting out there now.
Could McConnell be doing this to send some kind of message to Trump? Like keep up your tirades against me and I will work toward getting enough votes to impeach you.

[AtheistCrusader]

48. McConnell is losing too.

Gotta shake things up. (Won't save him)

[Zambero]

11. What the Mitcheroo really wants

Of course it is for Moore to withdraw and hope that Alabama can schedule a new election timeline with a new GOP candidate. Absent that, McConnell would just as soon see Moore go down to defeat. If Moore wins, he becomes a poster child for everything that is both wrong and disgusting with today's Republican party. Going into 2018, and given what just happened in last weeks' special elections, it's a recipe for disaster.

[Dragonfly64]

35. This is what makes me nervous

Governor Ivey has gone on record saying that the election date won't be changed, but there are whispers that she's getting a lot of pressure from the republican party to change the date for a new candidate. I find this infuriating because if the shoe were on the other foot and the democratic candidate was guilty of these charges there would never be the first mention of changing the date. If they change the date, any republican they run will win the seat for sure.

[NCTraveler]

12. You know that Mitch doesn't believe the women.

It's not a part of his natural instinct. He really doesn't like this guy.

[VermontKevin]

15. No, he knows it happened just like they said. Just like he knows Trump's accusers are not

lying.

He doesn't give a shit about the women, but he must care about the damage Moore will do.

[NCTraveler]

17. He cares very little about the damage Moore will do when it comes to the accusations.

And no, I don't believe that he believes the women. You are giving Mitch way too much credit. Mitch was way to quick to jump on this out of the gate.

[VermontKevin]

19. The seating war, with the 2018 Senate up for grabs is what he wants to avoid.

That is where the Moore accusations will hurt the entire Republican Senate.

[NCTraveler]

25. Having a Republican Senator step down with a month left.

Will not help them at all. There will be no seating war. He might step down, he might not. Either way this is about something else to Mitch.

[VermontKevin]

34. I am talking about the seating war on December 13th.

[Roland99]

13. So. Moore wins. Senate refuses to seat him. Can AL Gov appoint a replacement?

[VermontKevin]

18. That is exactly what McConnell does not want: a seating war with 2018 coming up.

[exboyfil]

23. If Moore now wins

Then McConnell is toast. McConnell coming out against Moore actually makes it more likely that Moore will win.

I guess we will hear some BS about the voters of Alabama deciding when they seat Moore. Failure to seat him might destroy the Republican party.

I don't think it was smart move by McConnell to say he believed the women. The ambiguity only helped him.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

14. Huh

I wonder who paid him to have that opinion...

[ehrnst]

21. Because McConnell endorsed Moore's primary opponent..

Whether or not he "believes women" isn't really what his statement against Moore indicates.

It indicates that Moore did something that McConnell didn't like.

[VermontKevin]

22. Of course not. His statement is trying to give Repukes cover.

They can all see the ads in 2018 coming.

[gratuitous]

24. Mitch wants to have his cake and eat it, too

His public statement is designed to put a little distance between himself and the prospective newest member of his caucus. If Moore is elected, McConnell can say, "Well, I asked Roy Moore to step down, but the people of Alabama had other ideas, and I'm bound to respect the will of the people." Business as usual will then resume in the Senate.

Come on, Alabama: You can either have the damaged goods of Roy Moore, or elect a terrific candidate in Doug Jones, who's done more to bolster the respectability of your state than Roy Moore could ever hope to achieve. You don't want people snickering at your backwoods hick ways? Then don't vote for a fucking backwoods hick.

[VermontKevin]

28. Yes, he's trying, but McConnell also knows that a seating war would damage every single

Republican race in 2018. This guy is radioactive.

[safeinOhio]

26. Its his passive aggressive

counter attack/revenge on Steve Bannon.

[bearsfootball516]

27. Didnt Mitch already say this last week when the news broke?

[VermontKevin]

30. "If the allegations are true" morphed into "I believe the women."

That's a seismic shift.

[imanamerican63]

29. Mr. Potato Head telling Howdy Dudy that they can have another abuser in the barnyard!

[cloudbase]

31. Mitch should lead by example. n/t

[VermontKevin]

38. Ironically, Moore feels that way too.

[lame54]

36. McConnell would rather give the seat to a dem...

Than have Bannon take it

[VermontKevin]

37. Seating war with 2018 coming up.

Toxic slime for every single Republican.

[lame54]

39. It's important to beat this pedo...

Need to taint the Bannon brand

[VermontKevin]

40. Not just do everything we can to beat him, but if that fucker wins, we hold the GOP

responsible by tying him around the neck of every single Republican in the Congress.

[Retrograde]

41. Translation: Mitch sees a lose-lose situation

for himself. If Moore wins, it empowers Bannon and his followers, and Moore will be a loose cannon. If Jones wins, Mitch loses a GOP vote.

I find it hard to believe that McConnell has any sympathy for anyone other than himself or his donors.

[VermontKevin]

42. He has no sympathy at all.

[DFW]

45. Moore ALMOST got it right

He was not correct to say of McConnell that "He has failed conservatives "

What would been correct would have been to say "He is a failed conservative." But then, that applies to Moore as well.

[Wwcd]

51. The failed life of Mitch (in pictures)

Young Mitch


Teen Mitch


Mitch learns to drive


Mitch learns the art of political stunts

[Skittles]

53. translation: ultimately, Moore is hurting our bottom line

McConnell doesn't give a DAMN about women