Timothy Birdnow

So now the Democrats and media and Republican Establishment have taken out Roy Moore and thrown the Senate to a knife edge. Good for them. I hope the Republicans who immediately tossed Moore to the wolves pat themselves on the back for a job well done, and I hope they are the first to fall when the wolves they tossed Moore to come to feast on them.

Writing at American Thinker Keith Edwards makes it plain how this is going to go down:

"The strategy to defeat President Trump in 2020 will be exactly what defeated Roy Moore last night. Democrats and their willing accomplices in the liberal drive-by media will continue to paint President Trump as a serial sexual abuser from now until election night in November 2020. You can bet there will be many more women coming out soon with allegations against President Trump; and regardless of the facts of any of their stories, they will be given constant exposure by the liberal media outlets and the full support of every Democrat in office."

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This is the essence of warfare, political or otherwise. Moore's defeat emboldens the Left while demoralizing our side. It also cements in the tactic that will in fact take out Donald Trump - and likely a number of other Reopublicans before this is through. The GOP faced a classic crust defense in Alabama; hold the line or let the barbarians overrun your position. They were in the same tactical position as Col. Chamberlaine at Gettysburg. Unlike Chamberlaine, they did not attack when the enmy charged up the hill, but rather ran for it.

Now they will pay.


Richard Baehr illustrates the myopia of many on the Right perfectly:

"Even before any disclosure, true or not about Moore’s past history with teenagers, he was an awful candidate in many ways. Consider him an Alabama version of Todd Akin."

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Uh, Rich, Akin could have and would have won the seat if the GOP hadn't cut off his funding completely, even refusing to run ads AGAINST Claire McCaskill. That was a seat lost not because of Akin (who did indeed make a seriosu blunder) but because the Establishment didn't want him and worked actively for his defeat. Puhlic condemnation and demands someone quit the race is a hostile act, and the Party fathers like John Danforth (who hated Akin long before and recruited John Bruner to run against him) publicly condemned Akin. OF COURSE he lost after that. And our dear friend, the head of the Republican Party REince Preibus, refusedto so much as badmouth Air Claire.

But let us continue with the un-Baehrable argument:

" So, thank the Governor, who was an idiot for scheduling the election when she did, and Steve Bannon, for somehow thinking Trump’s choice of candidate was the establishment swamp tool of Mitch McConnell. Yes, after all, Strange only backed Trump 100% of the time. Not enough. He needed to be taken down."

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Huh?

Rich is the political editor at American Thinker and he doesn't understand anything about this. Amazing!


According to Ballotpedia Big Luther Strange worked for many years as a lobbyist, which makes him not just part of the Swamp but a real alligator. A big reason Donald Trump was elected was to "drain the swamp" and yet Mitch McConnell and Rich Baehr think that is how you win elections, by putting alligators in office. Great; you win the election but in the end WE lose. But that's not all.


Rich claims Strange voted 100% with Trump. Really? According to the Ballotpedia entry:

Voted Nay on: Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (PN55(2))

So he voted AGAINST Trump's SCOTUS pick.

He voted against changing Senate rules to end the filibuster.

Also from Ballotpedia:

Voted Yea on: Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (HR 3364)

Yes check.svg Bill Passed (98-2) on July 27, 2017 Signed by President
A bill to provide congressional review and to counter aggression by the Governments of Iran, the Russian Federation, and North Korea, and for other purposes.

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This was to punish the Russians for "collusion" and "election tampering" Trump signed it but it was something that should not have passed.

Strange also seemed to show support for DACA. From Alabama Today:

"Jack Kemp (not the Aviary East Coast editor) of Fosters, Ala. posted Strange’s email response on his Facebook page Tuesday, concerned that the Senator supports the Dream Act as he did not outright refute it in the email."

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Why be so wishy washy? Because the GOP Establishment promised this to the donors, that's why.

I have a question for Richard Baehr; why didn't the Establishment support Mo Brooks if they knew Roy Moore was so bad? Also, why did Moore win the primary in the first place?

Oh, I get it; the voters are too stuid to know what is good for them, isn't that right.

Mitch McConnell's super pac gave millions to Strange to run against Moore, which made the contest so close.

Because the good people of Alabama knew there was something Strange about Big Luther. And when McConnell got involved it was obviousl that there was something more than just a desire to win. AGain, they could have backed Mo Brooks. They didn't.

No, they backed a former lobbyist and yes man.

There is a simple answer in the Washington Examiner piece linked above:

"Senate Leadership Fund's total investment in the Alabama Senate special is set to hit $9 million. McConnell and his supporters are concerned a Moore victory could encourage a series of well-funded primary challenges in 2018 against Republican incumbents."

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It was all about the Swamp keeping the Tea Party from challenging their power.

Rich Baehr concludes his henpecking housewife post with:

"When legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel took over the brand new expansion team, the New York Mets, he plaintively asked, "Can't anyone here play this game?" -- which became the title of a book by Jimmy Breslin. The GOP has been in business for a century and half, and yet the question is a a fair one for them, too."

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This isn't a game, Rich; it is life or death to America. Too many Republicans still think it's a game, we are playing to win or lose but what we actually do does not matter overmuch. That is the problem, and it is why the GOP won't act to move forward the Trump agenda; Trump is a bird plop in the punchbowl, somebody who isn't there to play. They don't like that, because if he succeeds they are shown up for the self-serving scoundrels that they are.

This is also bad politics.

The Democrats and media are now energized and ready to go after Trump and anyone who gets in their way. We have now provided them with a tool that will work and by so doing they will use it. You don't hand your enemy a loaded gun, and yet that is what the gOP did. They ran from Moore. Even good conservatives like Ted Cruise and Mike Lee ran for the tall grass when the Moore scandal hit. They should have known better, because it was so clearly a political hit job and yet they gave it credence because they didn't want Moore to stay in the race. But even if Moore dropped out the Democrats and media would beat the replacement. The fact is, they had no choice but to defend Moore, and it was the morally correctAlabama.com: thing to do as there was no evidence in any of the accusations. But Republicans are cowards to the bone and they immediately ran for it. They have never learned what Trump understands, that the media has power only because we give it to them. Ignore them and they flail away helplessly. The GOP hangs on their every word because they have always taken what the media says as truth. It's not and hasn't been for a long, long time. And now the public has ways to learn otherwise.

But most of the GOP condemned Moore despite his being the only option at that point, and now it's too late. I do not think McConnell and his scumbag buddies are shedding any tears; the Right has always been the enemy first and foremost, and the RINOs would rather lose the general election than let us win. Senator Shelby, for instance, vowed to vote against Moore.

After all, the RNC cut off funding for Moore until just before the election. And at least one sitting Republican Senator (Jeff Flake) Donated to Doug Jones. I suspect if we were to dig into it we would find Mitch McConnell sending some money to Jones as well.

Oh, by the way, there is this little tidbit to consider. From Alabama.com:

"A judge directed Alabama election officials Monday afternoon to preserve all digital ballot images in Tuesday's hotly contested U.S. Senate special election.

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"Digital ballot images are essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots Alabamians fill out in the voting booth. In Alabama, these digital images are destroyed once an election has passed, according to Duncan."

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The destruction of the images allegedly opens the door to potential hacking because there are no hard copies of the ballots, according to Duncan.

"The Department of Homeland Security notified our Secretary of State here that Alabama is one of the 21 states that had been targeting for hacking of election systems," she said, referring to this year's special election for Georgia's 6th congressional district."

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Scullduggery in this election? I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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