I think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues. Letās get on with the real issues that are facing people of this country right now.ā
above emphasis mine. Shove it up your ass, Jones. These are real issues.
Heās trying to get re-elected as a Democratic Senator from Alabama. Cut him some slack here, folks, his opinions on this are not determinative.
Itās helpful to know that sexual harassment claims are not real issues, to the person elected because his opponent was credibly accused of the same. Hmmm.
Doug Jones: āI Think We Need To Move Onā From Trump Misconduct Allegations
Franken: Why Me?
āBecause he was in my way.ā
ā Kirsten Gillibrand
Nope. Women have given men āslackā for far too long. There were plenty of ways to respond to that while still being āof ALā he did none of that.
Well, I guess he was elected to represent Alabama. In that sense, heās just doing the job he was hired to do.
That said, he has a point. Trump was elected in spite of the allegations against him. Unless criminal charges can be filed against him based on any of these allegations, asking him to resign based simply on accusations that were already known about prior to him being elected is rather undemocratic.
We can certainly disagree with the choice voters made last year, but the choice was made after these women came forward.
Hey Doug, if you go to the White House to meet with tRump donāt go in all starry eyed. Take your wife and at least two lawyers, refuse to be alone with him.
And?
Did you think Roy Moore was going to vote with Democrats on some issues?
This perfect pony nonsense is just too much.
Iād rather have a guy that might vote with me four times out of ten than a guy I know Iāll never get anything from, especially when the opposition is in the majority to begin with.
So apparently the āgoodā people of Alabama elected a Republican after all.
Nope.
They elected a guy that is aware of the political realities of being a Democrat in the reddest state in the disunion.
The Franken allegations came out after the election. I think thatās the hair Doug Jones is trying to split. And honestly, heās got a point that the voters elected Trump even with those credible accusations came out - though Iād like to point out a helluva lot more people voted against him than for him.
I suspect that Doug Jones doesnāt want to be seen as a fluke who was only elected because of the Roy Moore sex scandal. Anyway, while sexual misconduct wonāt bring Trump down, thereās no shortage of other, well-documented, pervasive, and intentional corruption that will.
As for the āmay vote with Republicans on some issuesā - give me a break. That is standard boilerplate. Iād be shocked if Franken himself never said anything similar upon his first election. Trumptheory not withstanding, he represents an entire, rather backward conservative state, not just the people who put him in office.
So Alabama can rest easy. They elected a Democrat, but heās just another cracker. Theyāve still got a wheel in the ditch, just like they like it.
Another weasel, but heās our weasel.
Alabama isnāt going to elect a decent person under any circumstances.
realpolitik - heāll never resign in a million years over harrassment allegations - letās get him on his other crimes like bribery, fiscal malfeasance - and oh yeah, colluding with a hostile foreign power to become the oligarchic leader of our country
Yeahā¦a guy who brought justice to a decades-old hate crime.
How awful.
So your point is that issues donāt matter, only the party matters. Where have I heard that one before?
Chances are that heās going to vote with the Democrats most of the time, because they are ones who are interested in governing and the values and issues he campaigned on are Democratic values and issues. There is nothing wrong with him reassuring Alabamans that he will be open to good ideas wherever they come from - literally everybody does that. (Well, maybe not Bernie Sanders, but everybody else.)