Nick66
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Yeah this was my point and also the fact that Nick said that if Doug Jones had been pro-life, he may have had a better chance. Well my response was that it doesn't make a lot of sense to (a) nominate a pro-life candidate which is in general opposition with the party and most of its supporters, who by the way are the ones that fund the party and organize the infrastructure, and (b) hope that some massive ass scandal takes down the Republican who, going into the race had like a 30-point lead. Sorry, but hindsight is 20/20 so I disagree with the suggestion that the Democrats should put up candidates to suit the majority (i.e. Republican) voters of Alabama.
Also lost in this is the fact that the Democrats have primaries and the same VOTERS of Alabama elected Doug Jones, a pro-choice candidate. So now we are telling them they are wrong and should elect a pro-lifer? I mean how do you say that out of one side of your mouth and out of the other say that the will of the voters of Alabama (majority pro-life Republicans) must be respected?
Well the Democratic party has has some success running pro-gun candidates in some places, when the position of the national party is for more gun control, so there's that. I'm not saying the two issues are completely analogous, but there is something to be said for regional candidates having regional appeal. Though you're quite right, Dem primary voters in Alabama chose a pro-choice candidate there, which is their right and that's that.
And they got Nixon on the cover up, not the crime.
You'd have to have a pretty low opinion of Robert Mueller to think that he's letting Flynn walk, who has committed a multitude of actual, provable crimes, if there wasn't something else there, and there are very few people above Flynn.
I have a high opinion of Mueller. It's part of the reason I don't think he'll try to indict a sitting President or resort to chickenshit suff like the Logan Act. And I'm not saying there's not more there, I'm just saying if there is, we haven't seen any hint of it yet.
I have my own opinion on why Flynn got the deal he got, but it's too much to type now.