Roy Moore versus Doug Jones: Alabama Senate race will be 'ugly, exciting'

[davsand]

16. I have zero trust in Alabama voters, but it's worth fighting anyway.

We will not pick up a seat in Alabama, IMO. That's kinda like expecting ice cream to stay solid sitting in your car in summer. The main reason to fight this particular race is to keep inflicting his racist hateful image on the RNC. It's going to put all of them--up and down the ticket--on a razor's edge when somebody asks a Republican candidate in public do they support (insert rabid racist Republican wingnut name here)--because you just know Moore's win is going to encourage similar wingnuts to run. This was just the start.

What's possible, IMO, is that with those other primaries, you will see moderate Republicans spending a lot of money to survive a primary. Then, if a few of the wingnuts win--maybe in purple areas--Dems do stand a chance to pick up seats. Arizona, maybe? Nevada?

There's an old story about LBJ putting out the rumor that his opponent was copulating with a farm animal (the actual variety of animal leans toward pig, but I've also heard it as goat a time or two.) LBJ's campaign guy said, "Lyndon, you can't say that. You know that's not true." LBJ responded with something along the lines of, "Yeah, but I want to make him deny it." Moore's campaign is going to allow the Dems to force every Republican candidate to either repudiate Moore by denying they are a racist, or else be on the record supporting a racist piece of shit.