Re Jones - Moore: A little reality. Sorry. [View all]
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I'm an Alabamian. Born and raised here. Since 1941, except for about 35 years away in my career.
I worked for the Jones campaign.
Doug is really a terrific guy.
I am delighted that he won.
But please don't get your hopes up that this is a harbinger of some kind of sea change in this state.
And, dammit I hate to rain on your parade.
Doug won because he was running against Roy Moore.
If the repugs had chosen just about any other candidate, he/she would be celebrating today.
Moore has a hardcore, kamikaze, Moore-uber-alles group of way right wing evangelicals that will never desert him.
Never.
Those are the ones who turned out in the primary that got him into a runoff with our former state attorney general (Big Luther Strange) who was appointed to fill Sessions' seat in a very corrupt (and obvious) move by a governor who was shortly thereafter forced to resign just ahead of an impeachment posse (for sexual this-and-that) and pretty much hated (Strange) for that, statewide.
Faulkner would have a field day with this one.
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