How can we keep this guy out of US Senate? Some thoughts.
1. Mitch McConnell could get 20 or so GOP Senators to sign a letter to him telling him, they will support a Democratic petition to deny him a seat (you need 67 votes to do so). This makes more sense than saying please step down.
2. Have Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, and Bob Corker switch affiliations to Independent and support letting Democrats organize US Senate before December 12th and GOP caucus (in a minority) could simply refuse to let him join (they don’t need him). I don’t know how effective you can be without Committee assignments. It’s worth it, if only, to force Senator Richard Shelby to throw in here.
3. Despite this excellent analysis fivethirtyeight.com/..., it misses the point. In a straight up battle, Jones is still fighting uphill. A third party write-in could deflate the “anyone but a Democrat” voting public in Alabama by splitting that vote. Given a choice between someone who did not molest teenagers, someone who prosecuted the men who murdered an 11 year and 3 teenagers (all 14), and Roy Moore, Jones may come in first with a solidified based of 42-45% of the vote against a split conservative vote.
4. Take on the Elephant in the room with an Elephant gun.
The defense to the allegations is basically this:
“Take Mary and Joseph. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus. There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.”
“I don’t remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother.”
“Other than being with an underage person - he didn't really force himself"
“It's not ‘forcible rape’…I know that 14-year-olds don't make good decisions”
“It was 40 years ago. I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."
All of these are laughable defenses which if said by a Democrat, even the sharp like a marble mind of Sean Hannity could grind up.
Then it struck me….permission from the Mother. We need a campaign commercial with an Alabama Dad standing next to his 14 year old daughter.
“Roy Moore says he got permission from a 14 year old girl’s Mother to take her out on a date when he was 32. Mr Moore, you need my permission to try that with my daughter (he pulls out a 12 gage) and my friend will be with me when you do. I support Doug Jones for Senate, a real man for Alabama”
Can DailyKOS community support this?