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Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 04:42 PM Dec 2017

Ha! Doug Jones gets the quote right...

... Jones interviewed outside his voting precinct:

"Alabama we have come so far with too many things, and there is saying, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Alabama is not going to let that shame happen again."

I’m not sure we deserve this kind of competence in Alabama. But Gomer WAS from here, so maybe ...

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Ha! Doug Jones gets the quote right... (Original Post) Whiskeytide Dec 2017 OP
You don't sound happy. Surely tens of millions with the Hortensis Dec 2017 #1
I certainly hope so. Voted in West Mobile... Whiskeytide Dec 2017 #3
Voted in West Mobile also. 5 Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #6
Also Harper Lee and Helen Keller, not to mention the fabulous Tallulah Bankhead Glorfindel Dec 2017 #2
Rephrasing your post from Roy Moores POV Nevernose Dec 2017 #4
Brilliant...I'm sure that precisely what Roy Moore would believe Glorfindel Dec 2017 #5

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. You don't sound happy. Surely tens of millions with the
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 04:44 PM
Dec 2017

decency, ethics, and responsibility to vote for him deserve him? Including you, of course.



Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
3. I certainly hope so. Voted in West Mobile...
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 04:49 PM
Dec 2017

...during lunch. Place was nearly empty. It’s a pretty red area, so I hope that’s a good sign. Passed two midtown locations on my way back, and there were lines. Midtown is pretty blue.

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
2. Also Harper Lee and Helen Keller, not to mention the fabulous Tallulah Bankhead
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 04:47 PM
Dec 2017

Oh, yes, and Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Not everything or everyone from Alabama is bad.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
4. Rephrasing your post from Roy Moores POV
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 04:57 PM
Dec 2017

A lunatic, a commie, a Black (probably, based on that Kenyan name), a Gay, and a drunk.

(Helen Keller really was a communist, at least until they threw her out for advocating violence)

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
5. Brilliant...I'm sure that precisely what Roy Moore would believe
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 05:05 PM
Dec 2017

but Tallulah is Cherokee, a name for a spectacular gorge and waterfall in northeastern Georgia, but to people like Moore, Kenyan/Cherokee, what's the difference? They ain't white! I didn't know that about Helen Keller. I guess her advocating violence was just her "Alabama" side coming out.

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