Has anyone asked Michelle if she wants to play political games anymore? She didn’t seem to enjoy the politics when she was FLOTUS. Has she campaigned for any candidate since she left the Whitehouse?
Requesting that Michelle attempt to save the day seems more like a Hail Mary play, or wishful thinking, than sound political advice.
Most of the engineers here in Huntsville are employed by the defense industry and/or the aerospace industry. Most of them are Conservative. My wife and I both work with many of them, we know.
Heck, even many of the scientists tend to be Conservative - ever heard of John Christy and Roy Spencer?
Yeah, I just assume everyone I meet in Huntsville is conservative. I work with a lot of smart people here, and for a while after I moved here I would make assumptions on people’s political persuasion and I can’t count the amount of I times I’ve been disappointed and dumbfounded when I actually found out. I feel like I work in bizarro world. I don’t get the mentality. I can’t make it make sense to me. I don’t even try to persuade anymore, I just try to understand how they come to their positions and I just can’t get there.
If you tell me that Huntsville can turn blue, I can just maybe believe that. But turning Huntsville blue is not the same thing as turning the state as a whole blue. The only way that’s going to happen is if they hold their breath too long.
Not Michelle Obama, but the Democrats did deploy Joe Biden yesterday (http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/353692-biden-to-alabama-no-more-extremist-senators) to help the Jones campaign.
Probably going to take a lot more than that.
I also live in the Huntsville area and while it is probably 'bluer" than much of the state, it’s still no hotbed of democratic votes.
Roy Moore opposed getting rid of the language in Alabama’s state constitution that mandated segregation. The state constitution mandates “separate schools for white and colored children”, and in 2004, government officials tried to amend the state constitution.
They failed, and that language still stands, due to opposition from Moore and others.
So I guess this is a deal breaker for you, right?
“Moore and hardline conservatives pounced to argue the removal of that language would allow for a backdoor tax increase by judges who would see it as granting a constitutional right to an education, warning it would hurt taxpayers and threaten private schools and homeschoolers.”
AFAICT, his opposition was based on taxation and not on racism.
"The battle over the amendment came just a year after the Christian Coalition had helped defeat a Riley-backed push to increase state taxes to invest more on education and infrastructure.
The ongoing tax fights had made many conservatives wary of any constitutional changes, with a faction that simply opposed any tweaks.
“You do have a more conservative wing of the Republican Party that’s always suspicious of any constitution changes as a backdoor attempt to raise taxes,” Roth said.
Parker and Moore explicitly made that argument.
Moore told the Associated Press that the amendment was “another attempt to open the door for a court-ordered tax increase without the consent of the people” after they’d defeated the earlier amendment, while Parker ran radio ads saying that it would create “a new right to education for citizens of all ages” and warning “liberals will use this to pressure judges into raising your taxes.”
… and further
““I would not go so far as to say the Moore camp had racist motivations. It would be completely consistent with them being suspicious of activist judges trying to raise revenues from the bench. Could you find someone who had racist motivations who was on his side on this? I’m sure you could. But I’ve disagreed with Judge Moore on several things and I would never ascribe his personal motivations to a racist agenda,” said Roth, Riley’s former chief of staff.”
LOL. I’m sure Moore’s speeches to white supremacist organizations like the League of the South, and the Council of Conservative Citizens (the CCC), were also about taxes. His continued support for an evidence-free racist conspiracy theory (birtherism) is probably about taxes too, right? And his support for keeping segregation language in the Alabama constitution was very obviously about taxes. When anyone thinks “segregation”, they’re thinking “taxes”, right? Segregation is taxes, very obviously!
I’m sure you wonder why George Wallace’s rhetoric is now considered racist – he was just talking about taxes, right? “Segregation now, segregation forever!” is just tax talk.
And I bet the Confederacy seceded for taxes, right? Great stuff!
It’s okay, Okrahoma. You don’t have to say you actually care about racism any more.
And even if it were about taxes, arguing that children (of any color) don’t and shouldn’t have a right to an education is already pretty scary.
Think, what kind of a person you are that for the sake of an Internet argument you’re trying to smear someone with racism when even his political opponents, some of them black, say he’s not a racist.
LOL. What “political opponents, some of them black” said he’s not a racist? Or is this more of the same sort of “found one black person!!!” nonsense, like if one black person says David Duke’s not racist, then he’s not racist?
And are you seriously asserting that it’s a “smear” to call support for segregationist language, speeches to white supremacist organizations, and spreading an evidence-free race-based conspiracy theory, racist?
More great stuff!
Why, some of his best friends …
It’s in the article that YOU cited. That you apparently didn’t read.
The only black person cited in the article was a black professor. Neither a political opponent (no party or candidate affiliation was described), and he never said Moore was not a racist. In fact, he said this: “Roy Moore didn’t use the N word but one doesn’t have to use the N word to be a racist or act with racial motives or with a callousness or indifference towards racial inequality.”
But this is really hilarious, so please keep it going! What’s the next one you’ve got? May I suggest the following:
*Roy Moore can’t be racist because he’s never personally murdered a black person.
*Roy Moore can’t be racist because I found a random person on the internet who says they’re black and that Moore is wonderful.
*Roy Moore can’t be racist because he once ate watermelon.
*Roy Moore can’t be racist because he gave a tip to a black waiter once.
*Roy Moore can’t be racist because racism doesn’t exist any more.
“I can’t say at this point what drove Roy Moore other than his own self-interest”.
Leftists love to cry racism at the drop of a hat. You’re no exception. Sorry, you cried wolf way too many times. It doesn’t work anymore.
LOL. So it’s ‘Moore can’t be racist because a black professor said “I can’t say at this point…”’?
Great one! Segregation = taxes, and one black professor saying “I can’t say…” followed by "Roy Moore didn’t use the N word but one doesn’t have to use the N word to be a racist or act with racial motives or with a callousness or indifference towards racial inequality.” means Moore isn’t a racist.
Brilliant!
Can’t forget this one:
‘Moore can’t be racist because iiandyiiii calls people racist too often!’
LOL!
…for those people". Let’s be honest about it.
Possible scandal for ‘Judge’ Moore: Senate candidate Roy Moore received undisclosed thousands in salary from a charity he founded, according to Washington Post report. (original article in the Washington Post.
Basically, he’s said to have been taking a major ($180,000/yr) as salary from his ‘non-profit’ for minimal work, and not reported it on his taxes. Oh, and by the way, his charity has filed taxes for 2015 or 2016 yet…said his accountant been’s sick.
Won’t change a thing in the Alabama vote, but at least the Republicans in Washington should now know the quality of candidates that Ali-bama is sending to the Senate…