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NY Times: Once a Long Shot, Democrat Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Race

Some lefties think this is the beginning of the end:



We will see.

I am not a "leftie" unless you identify "leftie" as anyone who's against Trump as that I am.

I encourage you to continue scoffing at your opponents, ignore the polls and the fact a group of nobody black women banded together in a grass roots move to shut down Trump's boy in a precedent setting and historical election. He's 0 for two of the people he's backed.

Yeah, keep scoffing.
 
Where did the people who were all about 'let the voters decide' go?

They are in mourning.
51-49 - New Year a coming.
 
Some lefties think this is the beginning of the end:

What is wrong with people that are left handed. I am one, and I am tired of being attacked as I am a Leftie.
 
They're high-fiving each other and talking about this election as though it's some sort of tectonic or cosmic shift or something. Alabama is not turning blue.

The MSM like Liberal Joe and Democrats are wetting themselves since Doug Jones won.

President Trump and Mitch made a mistake by originally backing Luther Strange when they should have backed Mo Brooks. Lesson learned.

In reality, this isn't about supporting child molestation, rape, sexual assault, etc... If I lived in Alabama, I personally would have voted for Roy Moore. Is Roy Moore racist and an extremely flawed candidate? Absolutely. However, he votes in favor of issues that help America.

I don't care about these candidates personal lives and moral failings. I support Trump because he knows how to boost the economy. I don't vote for these candidates because I like them, or I think they would be good guys to hang out with and have a beer. I vote for candidates that grow America, and not strangle it.

If Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election, the U.S. would be experiencing a recession today, billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Thursday.

The nation is better off with President Donald Trump in the White House than it would have been under Clinton or her 2016 rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, contended Cooperman.

Trump deserves "a lot" of the credit for the stock market run since the November election, he added. "The intelligent people who voted for Donald Trump a year ago, 'said I know what I'll get when I get Hillary. I don't want it.'"

Cooperman also on commented Barack Obama, saying the 44th president had a "foot on the throat of the economy."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/leo...inton-won-the-us-would-be-in-a-recession.html

Against all expectations, the stock market started to boom on November 9, 2016, the day after the election. The Dow soared 257 points, and gained 9 percent by year-end, for the biggest post-election rally ever. Why? Because investors believed that newly-elected President Trump was determined to create jobs, bring businesses back to the U.S., lower taxes and loosen the regulatory noose created by Obama. That’s what he campaigned on, and that’s why he was elected.

What Obama never understood is that there is a close and important correlation between optimism and growth. Optimistic consumers spend money. Optimistic investors buy stocks. Most important, business leaders who view the future positively will invest in growth.

Consumers were not alone. Small business owners were also cheered by Trump’s election. The National Federation of Independent Business reported an immediate surge in optimism among its members, with its confidence index rising to 105.8, its highest level since the end of 2004. The December gain was 7.4 points, the biggest monthly leap since 1980. The outlook from corporate CEOs, too, turned more positive. In fact, nearly every measure of manufacturing and business sentiment improved in the weeks following the election.

Obama still doesn?t get it ? optimism, not whining, grows an economy | Fox News

Again, people like Trump understand basic, fundamental economic principles that will grow the economy. An Elizabeth Warren presidency unleashed on America will lead America to a deep recession. Most liberal Democrats I know do not know how to manage a business or balance a budget. For goodness sakes, the DNC nearly went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by Hillary Clinton.... the DNC!

If the Democrats cannot manage their own committee, imagine what will happen to this country.
 
What is wrong with people that are left handed. I am one, and I am tired of being attacked as I am a Leftie.



Life is simply NOT fair.

At least they let you play baseball now. It wasn't always the case.

And according to statistics you should be able to beat a hockey goalie 1.479 times more than a right hander. But then if you're like me, right handed shooting left you only score on weeks when Tuesday is an odd number
 
It's a victory for the Beltway insider status quo: lobbyists, consultants, lawyers, and other assorted "Bobo" parasites who've turned the Washington, D.C. metro area into the largest contiguous collection of "Super Zips" in the country.
You do know that Roy Moore went to law school, right? Also I doubt he's middle class at this point in life. Despite the fact that he wants to criminalize homosexuality and generally bring the US back to the stone age, he still fits right into a Super Zip. Just because someone sells identity politics, that doesn't mean they're actually one of you.
 
In reality, this isn't about supporting child molestation, rape, sexual assault, etc... If I lived in Alabama, I personally would have voted for Roy Moore. Is Roy Moore racist and an extremely flawed candidate? Absolutely. However, he votes in favor of issues that help America.

So to drain the swamp, you will vote in a child molester, rapist, extremely flawed person.
That explains a lot.

Not sure if you are aware of something Bucky, but the world is literally what we make of it. You set an example, everyone does. The example we set for the U.S. Senate, powerful and high profile public servants, is that they can be the most deplorable people imaginable, but as long as they TELL YOU they will vote a certain way...even though they can be lying out their teeth, that you'll back them?

Some people think politicians are corrupt sellouts, I think it's voters like you. You have up your humanity before they even hit office.
 
What is wrong with people that are left handed. I am one, and I am tired of being attacked as I am a Leftie.
"Dexter" means right hand, etymology: Borrowing from Latin dexter, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs(i)-tero-, from *deḱs- (“right”). Compare Homeric Greek δεξιτερός (dexiterós, “right hand”), δεξιός (dexiós, “right”), Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, “right”); dexter (feminine dextra or dextera, neuter dextrum or dexterum); first/second declension; right (relative direction), right hand, skillful, fortunate, favorable, proper, fitting. It's opposite is "sinister"; (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum); first/second declension, left, perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile quotations (religion), inauspicious (for Greeks).
 
Apparently to the NRA she was.

Yes, so instead of saying they wouldn't support either one, they threw their support behind someone who as recently as 4 years prior was advocating for Barack Obama's gun control.
 
Of course he changed his mind. I mean, everyone who is anti-gun for over 40 years wakes up one day in his late 60s and says "Hey, I'm for guns now!".

That's right. You're catching on. :rock
 
[h=1]Exact Title: Once a Long Shot, Democrat Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Race[/h]

Trump and Bannon must be blowing a gasket.

The U.S. Senate narrows by one vote.

McConnell is on record of now slamming Steve Bannon.

It wasn't just McConnell. Here is GOP congressman Peter King on Steve Bannon:

"You know, I was even raising this, not even so much as a political issue almost as a moral issue," the New York Republican said. "This guy does not belong on the national stage. He looks like some disheveled drunk that wandered onto the political stage.

King, who supports President Donald Trump, said Moore's election loss was "not just a political statement," adding that it "was a manifestation of the revulsion by the American people." Trump endorsed Moore in the race.

"(It) was really just a revulsion by people at (Bannon's) style, at his type of divisive views," the congressman continued...

"I consider myself a conservative Republican," King added. "I consider myself an Irish Catholic, and he sort of parades himself out there with his weird, alt-right views that he has and to me it's demeaning the whole governmental and political process."
Peter King: Bannon looks like a disheveled drunk that wandered onto the political stage - CNNPolitics
 
They're high-fiving each other and talking about this election as though it's some sort of tectonic or cosmic shift or something. Alabama is not turning blue.

Likely not, but this will show them that they need more moderate candidates, ones that have been thoroughly vetted, instead of evangelical, far-far-right, holier-than-though professing jerks who pander to a Christian base. This state is full of evangelicals (that's where most of Moore's votes came from). I'm willing to bet that anyone of any other religion and even most moderate Christians (which are a majority of this country) have no use for candidates like Moore.
 
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