Thursday, December 14, 2017

Who Really Benefited From the Doug Jones Win in Alabama

Charles Barkley
Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday defeated the extremely weak (and weird) Republican candidate Roy Moore, in the generally very heavily Republican voting state of Alabama.

Jones is the first Democrat elected as a US Senator in the state in 25 years.

The big individual winner is the former NBA superstar Charles Barkley. He campaigned heavily in Alabama and from my computer screen, it appears that he was the key driver behind a strong turnout by black voters.

Expect the Democrats should use him across the country throughout 2018 to energize the black vote in the mid-terms.

And he was just a couple of people away from Jones when Jones delivered his victory speech. He sure looked like he wanted to be the one delivering a victory speech.

I expect that at some point in the future Barkley will announce he is running for some public office. His views are unclear, I have heard him make some sound points in the past but on Tuesday he sounded like quite the lefty. And it should never be forgotten that he claimed that in his autobiography, I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It, he was misquoted,

The Democratic party was also a big winner. The victory will energize the base into thinking that more victories are ahead. An energized base with Barkley driving the black vote will be big going into the midterms. And then you have the kids, the millennials, all turning socialist. Not good for liberty.

The Republican establishment also got a boost. The scruffy out-of-work homeless-looking guy and President Trump were the big losers. They couldn't deliver in a heavily Republican state and will be labeled in 2018 as backing an alleged perv. Though the Democrats will most assuredly drop off the adjective "alleged." Everyone, including lots of Republicans, are going to distance themselves from the diet coke-chugging, cable news channel watching, street hustler in the White House.

And so, 2018 looks very good for Democrats and socialists of all stripes as we live the "Libertarians for Trump" dream of Trump in the White House

-RW

6 comments:

  1. The Democrats were so desperate that they had to beg and register black felons to vote for their douchebag candidate. Moore was imperfect, but far preferable to another anti-gun open borders douchebag who never worked a day in his life. The media always left out how GOPe spent millions to defeat Moore in a off season primary. Gotta wonder who the 'winner' was here. The sexual allegations were total BS given Moore has been in public life for years and none of this was ever mentioned.

    It was not a big win for their candidate, so no mandate there.

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    1. Name a single socialist state with open borders. Closed borders is a Marxist / socialist position. What right does government have in telling private enterprise who they can and cannot employ?

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    2. Lab Mgr: Republican behavior is often like that of controlled opposition that intentionally takes a dive.

      mash: There is nothing in marxism or socialism that says the borders can't be open to achieve a marxist or socialist state then closed.

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    3. Re: The Lab Mismanager,

      --- Moore was imperfect, ---

      Yeah that's the way to categorize sexual predators of minors: as 'imperfect'.

      In hindsight, it is clear McConnell was right and Bannon (the scruffy-looking nerfherder) was terribly wrong about which candidates should have received the party nomination.

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    4. --- There is nothing in marxism or socialism that says the borders can't be open to achieve a marxist or socialist state then closed. ---

      Actually Marxism implies closed borders since property is collectively owned. A Private Property Ownership society implies open borders: open to the free flow of goods, services and yes, labor. Closed borders and economic autarky go hand-in-hand and, the staples of feudal and Marxian societies.

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    5. Hey Franco, there was never any evidence of him being a sexual predator. Nice of you to ignore the points I made about Moore. The women turned out to be all liars.

      "Name a single socialist state with open borders. Closed borders is a Marxist / socialist position. What right does government have in telling private enterprise who they can and cannot employ?"

      You are an idiot with this position. There has to be some cultural compatibility for this imaginary libertarian society to function. No one has been able to show me that an Afghan Muslim goat humper or low IQ African or Mestizo is wort letting into this country. Even those with some ability but come from low trust societies bring nothing but problems.

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