Pierce: Let's All Point and Laugh at Jefferson Beauregard Sessions

[mcar]

Let's All Point and Laugh at Jefferson Beauregard Sessions
Meanwhile, if I were Senator Susan Collins, I would be "deeply concerned" about Sara Gideon.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUL 15, 2020

Let us all pause and laugh and point at the sad end of the political career of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who discovered far too late that there is no amount of spittle that you can lick that will save you from the inevitable career suicide when you ally yourself with El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. On Tuesday night, JeffBo tried to regain the Senate seat he’d given up to be attorney general in the president*’s punching-bag cabinet. He got freight-trained in a Republican primary by a former Auburn football coach named Tommy Tuberville. In the end, the president* submarined Sessions as though JeffBo were an Atlantic City glazier he could stiff on an invoice. He endorsed Tuberville.

Kyle Whitmire at AL.com gives JeffBo the send-off he deserves.

Four years ago, Jeff Sessions was the most popular politician in Alabama, comfortably in a Senate seat that could have been his for the rest of his life. Today he’s as unemployed as the former football coach who beat him this week in the Republican primary. Don’t have pity for him. He brought this on himself. Rather, have pity on Alabama. Republican voters may have rejected Sessions, but it seems they did so for all the wrong reasons. Or for the wrong person.

Tuberville beat Sessions like a tin drum all over the state. He even swept Tuscaloosa County, home of the University of Alabama, which is quite an accomplishment for a guy that coached at Auburn, the Crimson Tide’s historic cross-state rival. And if you think that college football isn’t a factor in this race, the Alabama Democrats are here on the electric Twitter machine to remind you that you’re out of your mind....

For his part, incumbent Democratic senator Doug Jones still has a long, hard pull ahead of him to keep his seat. At this point, he’s about the only Democratic senator whose seat is considered vulnerable. However, his campaign is financially sound, and Tuberville is better than even money to say something stupid that will energize Black turnout, which is how Jones beat Roy Moore to replace JeffBo in the Senate, and it is entirely possible that this president* may be such an incurable electoral cholera by the beginning of November that his endorsement of Tuberville could turn out to have been deadly.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33322860/jeff-sessions-lose-primary-tommy-tuberville/

[hlthe2b]

1. He's always been pathetic, but only increased over time.

While I detest Sessions, I sort of hate Trump getting that "win."

Can only hope Jones can pull it out.

[mcar]

4. I wonder if Jones has a better chance against Tuber

he's a certifiable lunatic, even by Alabama standards.

[flor-de-jasmim]

2. I don't feel the need to laugh at him - I'd rather find a way to have him come out in favor of Jones

(if possible) - that would be satisfying revenge against Trump and Tuberville.

[mcar]

3. That would be interesting

His continued Trump adoration hasn't helped him at all.

[OnDoutside]

10. Didn't he finally break from that, and had a right go at Trump ? I think it was a few days ago. It

would be really interesting though.

[empedocles]

5. Seems like a Jones key, is whether tuberville is as awful as roy moore.

Although, the virus realities may sink in to even bama 'con voters sufficiently to vote against trump and tuberville.

[NCjack]

6. I'm felt a little pity for Sessions, until I remembered that he was the first U.S. Senator

to reveal that he is a Trumpster.

Find a job in the economy that you helped create, if anyone is hiring POS.

[malaise]

7. Truly happy

Now to beat the crook

[mcar]

8. Amen!

[SummerSnow]

9. too much butt kissing and not enough but kissing at the same time.