Trump: Moore's loss proves 'we need to put up GREAT Republican candidates'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOSH DELK - 12/13/17 10:33 AM EST

President Trump said Wednesday that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore's loss in the Alabama special election the previous night showed that Republicans need to put forward "GREAT" candidates.

Link to tweet

Trump has sought to distance himself from Moore following his upset defeat to Democrat Doug Jones in deep-red Alabama, tweeting after results came in that he had initially backed Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in the GOP primary runoff because Moore might not win the general election.

Trump endorsed Moore for the Alabama race last week, despite a number of allegations of sexual misconduct against the GOP candidate. Exit polls showed that a majority of voters believed the allegations to be true.

Jones's victory marks a historic win in Alabama, where he will be the state's first Democrat to win a Senate seat in 25 years. He won a seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/364673-trump-calls-for-strong-gop-candidates-to-keep-republican-majority

[defacto7]

1. Yes Trump. Great Republican candidates.

Candidates almost as smart as you.

[forgotmylogin]

10. Please proceed.

[marble falls]

2. Good luck with that Lyin' Donny - your bench lineup is too pathetically shallow to hit "GREAT".

[tanyev]

3. Shh. Jeenyus at work.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Does Trump know another adjective?

So much GREATness is scaring voters away, because it all depends on who defines great, which really gets down to who benefits from this alleged greatness. When the GOP defines great, common folk lose.

[MGKrebs]

5. The Deplorables must be getting tired of all this winning.

[freddyvh]

6. does that mean

nobody that bannon supports?

[Pope George Ringo II]

17. Or at least the ones who survive Bannon's plan to primary them?

Didn't Bannon have a plan to primary every GOP Senator except Ted Cruz in 2018?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The candidates Orange Foolius endorses are GREAT - until they lose.

Then he's barely even heard of them. Remember Luther Strange?

[PearliePoo2]

8. You are SO funny, donnie! Predictably now trashing his boy Roy!

You are also SO pathetic and a big, fat LOSER!

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Not really an option. nt

[rock]

11. Where we going to find them,

Jan?

[Jarqui]

12. at the mall?

[Dave Starsky]

13. I guess endorsing a child molester wasn't such a great idea.

Who could have known? Least of all, Donald Trump.

[keithbvadu2]

14. "Great"? - What? Like Dennis Hastert?

Even he got letters of support from his fellow republicans.

[Bromwell]

15. He's such a predictable simpleton.

Everybody in his circle is GREAT or TOTALLY qualified or INSTRUMENTAL or HIS candidate.....until they are not.

Then he hardly knew them, they were low level nobodies, he knew they were going to lose anyway so its not his fault. He always has an answer doesn't he. Like he's not on record having said the opposite.

Like a child he grabs his ball and runs home when he can't be the winner. Sad!

[Trailrider1951]

16. Sorry Rump, but Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt

Are dead. So is Dwight Eisenhower. That's about all the GOOD republicans there ever were.

[Javaman]

18. when most of your "candidates" are batshit crazy...good luck with that. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

19. IOW, people who think and vote like Moore, but who are better at pretending otherwise. NT

[7962]

20. In all fairness, had Strange won the primary would we even be talking about this race?

I doubt it.
he can lord that over the AL voters now, as he normally does

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Good luck finding great republicans.

Especially when you bind them to Steve Bannon's credo.

[sofa king]

23. "Great" is a pretty flexible word....

A candidate forged in the President's own image would surely be greatly uninformed, greatly corrupt, greatly endebted to the President, and probably also great in girth.

[MountCleaners]

22. Well putting up Trumpist candidates obviously doesn't work

Fundies and neo-confederates...can't imagine what they will come up with in this political climate.

[mr_lebowski]

24. Funny how when discussing losses, 'they' are 'the Republicans', as in, a group he is not within ...

Like they're a third party to him.

But then when discussing a subject like 'winning' ... he happily includes himself within that group i.e. when referring to the GOP, he says 'we'.

Then again, he also refers to himself in the third-person as well like a frigging psychopath, so ... there is that. Perhaps it's all just part of his cognitive decline and general inability to recognize 'boundaries' as a concept.

But let me see if I got this straight ... you're saying, that to win elections ... one needs ... great candidates?

Huh ... wow! No, really. WOW.

I gotta say, your plan is f***ing genius, Donald, if I understand it correctly ...