(12-12-2017, 11:56 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Works out for R in long run. Dems can't run smear campaign and Puppet Jones essentially keeps seat warm for a bit. Plus, tax reform passes before this guy is even seated. Good night for GOP overall.

In a way you might or might not have intended, you may be right.   Ultimately, this civil war within the Republican Party has to end if the Republicans are going to hold onto power.  Trump supported Luther Strange, who would have won in a landslide.   Steve Bannon was the one who propelled Roy Moore into victory in the primary.  So Moore's defeat was a defeat for Steve Bannon, who needs to go away if the Republicans are going to end this civil war within the party. 

And if Bannon wants to keep this up, he needs to learn, candidate quality matters.  Not just being "anti-establishment."  It has to actually be a quality candidate.  Even aside from the child molesting, Moore was a wacko.  It's really amazing that a Republican could lose a senate seat in Alabama.  But it happened because of Steve Bannon.  The whole alt-right movement garbage isn't going to work.  The Republicans have to regain control of their party and nominate more mainstream candidates, because the Democrats seem determined to lurch farther and farther to the left.

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