| Welcome to Perspectives. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Alabama election has GOP racing against the clock; GOP OMG | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 20 2017, 08:15 PM (121 Views) | |
| George Aligator | Nov 20 2017, 08:15 PM Post #1 |
|
Republicans are feeling the pressure to move quickly on tax legislation ahead of next month’s Senate election in Alabama. Senate Republicans already have little margin for error, as they can afford only two defections and still pass their tax-cut bill if Democrats are united against it. But that margin would fall to one vote if the Democrat in the Alabama race, Doug Jones, defeats GOP candidate Roy Moore on Dec. 12. Polls have suggested a Jones victory is a real possibility in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Moore. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/361279-alabama-election-has-gop-racing-against-the-clock |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
![]() |
|
| Robert Stout | Nov 20 2017, 10:29 PM Post #2 |
|
Has anyone investigated Jones for a history of groping ???...........
|
| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
![]() |
|
| clone | Nov 20 2017, 10:32 PM Post #3 |
|
Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
|
Anyone else see the irony that Moore was a Democrat when the alleged activities took place?
|
|
Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
![]() |
|
| George Aligator | Nov 21 2017, 12:32 PM Post #4 |
|
Few indeed are the posters with your delicate sense of irony. Most of us kinda assume that the sex, whatever it was or wasn't, had no political implications or purpose. The big switch-over from Dems to Reps in the formerly Solid South has a subtle implication for sexual politics fifty years later that escapes most people except for you. Good work! BTW how is the Clone for Mod campaign going? |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
![]() |
|
| 70-101 | Nov 21 2017, 01:42 PM Post #5 |
|
Thanks for establishing the fact Moore is a RINO. |
![]() |
|
| Robert Stout | Nov 21 2017, 04:42 PM Post #6 |
|
This is more a case of Moore and Southerners being for Democrats before they were against them...........
|
| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
![]() |
|
| George Aligator | Nov 21 2017, 05:19 PM Post #7 |
|
The GOP has received the Solid South white Democrats who fled the party in the civil rights era and has attempted to keep them in line by adding anti-immigrant rhetoric to the racist language ("pet hamsters" etc.) the hillbilly refugees brought with them. The old days of cotton mills and furniture factories are gone, replaced by automobile assembly plants but the strategy of keeping white workers in line (i.e. non-union) by threatening them with non-white competition stays the same. The problem with that centuries-old tactic is the steady growth of better-educated, white workers in places like Texas, North Carolina and, yes, even Arizona (but not Alabama or Mississippi) where that old white nationalism falls flat. This has caused the GOP to forage northward into the rustbelt with some real success (i.e. states like MI or WI where Trump was popular). How much longer this conservative movement among workers can last if the GOP continues to fail to deliver on its promises will be seen. Probably by 2018 at the current rate of failures. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
![]() |
|
| clone | Nov 21 2017, 07:48 PM Post #8 |
|
Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
|
What you are failing to conflate is that most Trump supporters see the swamp as the impediment to Trump's agenda and the GOPe in particular.... the campaign commercials essentially write themselves... All one has to do is run clips of their own campaign commercials in their own words and then match them with their votes and words on why they didn't fulfill their campaign promises.... Trump has been consistent and despite the media's efforts has been proactive....the senate and congress especially on the GOP side has not... Trump will continue to get the benefit of the doubt as long as he is moving forward with stated agenda and the Congress is not.... |
|
Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
![]() |
|
| Opinionated | Nov 21 2017, 08:22 PM Post #9 |
|
You didn't care that Trump was a Democrat when he did his groping, you supported him anyway... |
![]() |
|
| clone | Nov 21 2017, 08:26 PM Post #10 |
|
Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
|
What is it when people are Democrats lead to such alleged conduct? And once they convert to Republicans they grow up?
|
|
Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
![]() |
|
| George Aligator | Nov 21 2017, 08:27 PM Post #11 |
|
Trump's stated agenda on healthcare was universal coverage better than Obamacare with lower premiums. It turned out, he had no plan. Then he backed AHCA which would have taken away coverage from millions of Americans. When that flopped, he called for the destruction of ACA entirely. Trump said he was going to put an end to big business special interest in Washington. His appointees have been exclusively wealthy insiders and lobbyists. His own personal corruption and self-enrichment has been beyond any President in history. Trump said he would release his tax returns when the audit was finished. Still no tax returns. So much for his campaign promises. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
![]() |
|
| jake58 | Nov 21 2017, 08:58 PM Post #12 |
|
... and george is still talking about Roy Moore, not knowing that the story has evolved significantly... hey, the emperor has no clothes! |
| That which can be asserted without evidence; can be dismissed without evidence- Christopher Hitchens | |
![]() |
|
| George Aligator | Nov 22 2017, 11:18 AM Post #13 |
|
And Jake58 is still talking ^^^ about George... The story has evolved, but not significantly. Now we know that neo-Nazis are "some nice people" and we also know that voting for a child molester is better than voting for a Democrat. When is Trump going to sue those 16 women that came out against him? Maybe it will be after he gets his tax returns up on Wikileaks. Really! |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · UnitedStates.com DOMESTIC U.S. news · Next Topic » |







8:56 PM Jul 10