Since when did riding a horse become an Alabama thing?

[blitzen]

Hey don't get me wrong-I live in Louisiana so I know people ride horses. But Moore's ostentatious horse riding is over the top. What's he trying to prove? That he is the kind of guy who rides horses and doesn't bother your female children?

[Lindsay]

1. The vibe I get is

Plantation Overseer.

But I'm not inclined to a positive view of Moore.

[DBoon]

3. my first thought as well

Nt

[canetoad]

23. Mine too. nt

[anneboleyn]

17. Well, hes got the wrong saddle and wrong breed of horse to play overseer. But Ive always been

a horse girl (English style not western) and seeing that idiot abuse his horse (his riding “skills” are terrible from the standard of anyone who knows about riding) makes me sick. He looks like a moron who planted his fat old ass in a western saddle that’s too small for him and on a too-small horse he can’t even control. I’d love to see him on a horse that matches his size. It would be hilarious.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. When he lives in a delusional existence of Leave it to Beaver and 50's westerns....meh

that is what you get. Moore is magical thinker who wants us all to return to a christofascist theocracy that never existed.

[marble falls]

4. Oh its common enough ....

[jaysunb]

5. Bingo !! n/t

[blitzen]

6. Yeah that's pretty much it...

Looks like the Farm (Angola), whose beloved Warden turned out to be a big-time crook, along with his family.

[marble falls]

8. One from Alabama, one from east Texas, one from Angola, LA.

[Thor_MN]

7. Little girls like horses in general...

[Jim__]

9. Roy "Rogers" Moore

[TeamPooka]

10. Moore is running an 1850s style campaign - horse drawn with lots of manure.

[left-of-center2012]

11. He's the 'White Knight' ?

[meow2u3]

14. Roy Moore is more like this black knight

[Alea]

12. I don't see it up here in Auburn but down home I see it more often.

His horse riding is just a ploy to make people think he's cool. They popo should have used the metal detector waned before letting him vote. He always carries a gun and it's illegal at most or all polling places, and he's arrogant enough to think the rules don't apply to him. Could have arrested him on Election Day.

[Tavarious Jackson]

13. It looked to me like his horse either hates him or

He can't ride.

[meow2u3]

16. I wished his horse knocked him off her

and then proceeded to kick him in the face.

[greyl]

19. Yeah, no grace at all, looked ready to fall off any second.

Link to tweet

[anneboleyn]

21. He cant ride. I promise you that his skills as a rider are nearly zero. But that doesnt surprise

me as this is a performance. He can’t control his horse either — even while abusively sawing her mouth. His riding is terrible — laughably bad, no balance, bouncing wildly, yanking on the horse’s mouth for balance — very amateur stuff (and in a western saddle — an idiot who can’t sit a western saddle — English is much much more difficult whereas sitting in a western saddle is like sitting in a lounge chair on the back of a horse — is no “cowboy”)

[greyl]

15. That's not why Putin does it either. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Straignt out of Karl Rove's

book of Political Tricks. Remember the Pig Farm(Bush Ranch),same crap new day.

[fescuerescue]

20. It induces people to talk about him

Which then increases name recognition, which in turn increases votes.

Marketing 101

Yea I know you are thinking, Who could possibly not have heard of him? Most people have, but if name recognition earns a vote of even 1 out of 200, that's a 0.5% increase in vote count.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Horses are quite a big deal here.

Riding, showing, breeding, etc.

As far as moore is concerned, it is an ego thing, tho, to have publicity about his voting place ride.