Here we are with 22 days to go till election day.

Funding for Moore has pretty much dried up. They say Jones is raking in $250K per day.

The MSM/Liberals/ RINOs/GOPe/AL.com did a full on blitzkrieg with the initial allegations.

When that didn't work they started dropping the rumor mill attacks. Then came the annual claim.

Then the butt grabber who from my understanding has changed her story something like three times now.

Along comes all the democrat "preachers" they could find to go after him.

The next three weeks are going to be interesting.

Gov. Kay Ivey's vote for Roy Moore is not a vote for Alabama

Kay Ivey doesn't care about you, Alabamians.

Not as much as she cares about U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Or the only-the-rich-need-celebrate tax cut the U.S. Senate may jam down our throats.

Or any of the other "major decisions" that body will make over the next few years.

That's the only conclusion any reasonable human may draw from the words the governor uttered last week after pardoning a turkey in front of her residence, words that were all but shocking in clarity and paradox.

Ivey reiterated that she's going to vote for Roy Moore on December 12, reaffirming an assertion she made weeks ago--well before we learned the Republican nominee allegedly had a predilection for teenage girls when he was in his 30s, before nine women bravely stepped forward after decades of pained silence and claimed Moore made inappropriate sexual advances or sexually assaulted them.

"I will cast my ballot on December 12, and I do believe the nominee of the party is the one I'll vote for," Ivey said.

That wasn't surprising, really. Nor, frankly, was her justification for voting for Moore: he's a Republican.

And, by golly, that's what matters most.

The party is still, of course, licking its wounds from elections nationwide earlier this month that showed Americans are weary of their ineffectiveness and Trumpism, and has only a finger-nail of an edge (52-48) in the Senate.
Preserving that margin is Ivey's clear and overriding reason for voting for Moore, she said.

Not his stance on any single issue critical to the state and Alabamians, like jobs, education or health care.

Not whether he's the best candidate to represent Alabamians on the national stage.

Nope, just because he's a Republican. Period.

"I believe in the Republican party and what we stand for," the Governor said.

"Most important, we need to have a Republican in the United States Senate to vote on the things like Supreme Court Justices, other appointments the Senate has to confirm and major decisions.

"So, that's what I plan to do and vote for the Republican nominee, Roy Moore."
Politically, I get it. In these divisive political environs, I'm used to the idea that party trumps (pun totally intended) people in the minds of too many Americans, particularly politicians--politicians, yes, on both sides of the aisle.

But Ivey's declaration is patently absurd in light of the revelation that she believes the women who have made the sexual allegations against Moore.

"I have no reason to disbelieve any of them," she said. "The timing is a little curious, but at the same time have no reason to disbelieve them.

"There is never an excuse or rationale for sexual misconduct or sexual abuse," she continued. "It bothers me."

So, let me wrap my head around this: The governor believes the allegations against Moore yet is still willing to send him to Washington, D.C. to represent the state, willing to position him as a leader of the state, willing to elevate him as, what, a divisive, intolerant manifestation of the worst of who we are?

That more than bothers me. It incenses me because the Governor--who is supposed to represent all Alabamians, and make decisions to benefit us all, right?--so calmly says she will vote not based on what is best for all residents of her state but what is "best" for the Republican party, despite believing sexual allegations against the candidate?

That embarrasses me, too--not personally, but as a still-fresh-out-of-the-box Alabamian who is proud of many aspects of my new home state.

Ivey doubled-down on her insult when she said the allegations "certainly [have] an impact [on her vote], but at the same time the United States, in my opinion, needs to have a majority of Republicans to carry the day when they have to make other major decisions."

Carry the day.

And drop the state.

Absurd.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/gov_kay_iveys_vote_for_roy_moo.html#incart_river_home

Go home carpetbagger.

Leigh Corfman says she was "absolutely not" paid to speak publicly now about her sexual encounter with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was 14.

Corfman was the first woman to publicly accuse Moore of sexual misconduct since his GOP nomination to Alabama's U.S. Senate seat. Moore has denied the allegations.

Corfman tells NBC's "Today Show" Monday that she decided against going public previously because she was afraid that her children would be shunned in Alabama, where Moore became a state judge.

Corfman says she agreed to share details only after The Washington Post sought her out and gave her assurances she wasn't the only one accusing Moore of misconduct. She tells NBC, "my bank account has not flourished. If anything it's gone down because I'm not working."

http://www.wbrc.com/story/36884982/the-latest-moore-accuser-says-she-wasnt-paid-to-tell-story

Interesting. So they enticed her to make allegations against Moore by claiming others were doing the same.

Take a weak person, elevate them, make them feel good about themselves despite a lifetime of failures, stroke their ego to make them the star of the story.

I wonder what tales the WashPo told her to upstage the other players in this.

And she's the same one who lied about her age to Moore, right?

This is Fake News.

Yes. If it happened.

"I met him around the corner from my house, my mother did not know...

This claim does not fit what we know of his pattern of seeking dates and getting parental permission.

I know in GD and Alabama everyone thinks "this is a frame up" but I'm pretty confident Moore was a Thirtysomething creeper.

Okay so why did the Post, which seems to have been behind getting this story going, seems like they found the women, not vice versa, pick now to expose Moore? If it was a concern over the mistreatment of women why didn't they set him on fire during the primary or years before? Because the motivation is "let's stop the GOP" not "let's expose a creeper." They didn't start this well after the primary was over with, but close enough to affect the election, coincidentally. This is an attempt to flip congress, either by stopping Moore, or giving Democrats something to beat  up the GOP with in the mid terms. The paper knows if they had exposed this earlier "the GOPe" would have sought out ways to stop Moore.

I feel confident that he did date or seek to date females who were above the age of consent in AL. Not illegal. Also not unheard of for that time frame.

What I do think is in doubt is the two main claims that seem to be the most damaging to his position is the "14 yr old" and the "annual chick".

Neither of their claims fit the known pattern of Moore. Men are creatures of habit and very seldom stray from their established pattern of behavior.

The two extreme examples go way out of that pattern.

ETA: WashPo and AL.com both endorsed Jones before they published these allegations.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey says she has no reason to disbelieve the women who are accusing Roy Moore of being a sexual predator of young girls. Out of the other side of her mouth she says she'll still vote for him. Because he's a Republican.

In Alabama, political party trumps decency.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/condone_roy_moore_you_are_roy.html#incart_maj-story-1

Gov. Ivey has betrayed all women of Alabama

By Meredith Cummings
A lot has been written nationally and locally about Alabama Governor Kay Ivey's reaction to the Roy Moore allegations when she said she would vote for Moore despite multiple women accusing him of sexual harassment or sexual assault.

In Alabama, most of these opinions have been articulated by men. And thank God for these men, standing up for what is right and calling Ivey out. Yet women of our state have been painfully silent.

There is a special kind of betrayal - a cleaver-sized knife in the back - for the women of Alabama who thought maybe, finally, with a female governor we would get somewhere. That maybe we could stop the shenanigans that resulted in three of our last six governors being found guilty of crimes.

Women who are trailblazers in their field are always held to higher ethical standards, right or wrong. So when Ivey became governor (notice I didn't say she was elected) I protected her. Here she was, a rarity, a woman as governor in Alabama! She could have walked a Miss America-style runway with roses and I would have been right there, crying and waving and yelling, "You go Kay! Show them how great Alabama can be!"

Now I feel the way one of my staunch Democrat friends does. "I was impressed with her," she said, then paused, obviously contemplating recent events. "Until now."

Same, girl.

Ivey reminds me of my grandmother, who I miss every day and loved dearly. I'm sure if Ivey and I could sit down and have a long talk over tea, we would have more in common than we do not. My grandmother was one of the kindest people I've ever known. She would help, clothe and feed anyone in need.

And then, on occasion she would drop the n word. It was like an explosion of pain in my heart.

That's what Gov. Ivey's ethically bankrupt words felt like. They hurt. Now my heart and mind are ground zero for the litany of Alabama supporters who fire insults at women who have accused Moore of sexual assault and harassment. All led by our state's top official, the governor.

It's easy to ignore this part when everything swirls around in the 24-hour news cycle. It's easy to focus on Moore. Yet let's not forget what only our second woman governor chose to do when times got tough. She chose a man accused of multiple sexual harassment and assault charges. Then she told the state she would vote for him. Young girls and teens were watching.

As some people have speculated, if this is only for political gain, that only makes it more treacherous.

In the gospel of John Jesus said, "Let those of you without sin cast the first stone" to men who were about to stone a woman to death.

I am an imperfect Christian sinner. Not only am I casting stones, I'm hurling a metaphorical brick through Gov. Kay Ivey's window just to get her attention. She has hurt the women of this wonderful state.

Women of Alabama need to be the watchdogs here. It's up to us (not the state or nation's top opinion writers or politicians) to call out Ivey.

I'm left to explain to my politically active 15-year-old, who cannot wait to vote, why our governor, our state's top official and leader, apparently thinks sexual assault is OK.

I can't do it. Gov. Ivey, can you?
http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/11/gov_ivey_has_betrayed_all_wome.html#incart_river_home

Would NY vote against Cuomo if a video of him stuffing kittens in a blender came out a month before the election? No way, numbers would be down but he'd be re-elected. This is an interesting experiment to see if the press* and ad money can "flip anyone"

*not that this isn't Moore's own fault no matter what you yahoos say but the timing and motivation are obviously political

Don't believe Roy Moore's accusers? Then listen to Moore

For some it is too much to ask to believe the women. No matter what, they will choose to believe Roy Moore.

Belief perseverance is a powerful thing and a phenomenon observed in psychology. Once someone has taken a particular position or accepted one point of view, contrary evidence doesn't matter.

We're seeing it right now, with Moore and his faithful followers.

It doesn't matter how well Moore's first accuser, Leigh Corfman, presented herself on the Today Show. To them, she's a liar looking for fame and fortune.

It doesn't matter whether Beverly Young Nelson kept the receipts, or in this case, her high school yearbook. To them, it's an obvious forgery.

It doesn't matter how many other women come forward to say Moore solicited them too. It doesn't matter how many family members and friends of these women step out to say that they knew about this at the time, nor how many people say Moore was a known mall creeper they kept away from, even if they had to hide.

It doesn't seem to matter that, in our justice system, testimony is considered evidence, just as much as DNA. No matter how many come forward, it won't be convincing enough.

But I urge those folks who still don't believe to listen to the words.

But not hers. Or hers. Or theirs.

Listen to his.

Specifically Moore's account of how he met his now-wife, Kayla Moore.

First, read his book. In it, Moore describes how he met his wife at a Christmas party hosted by friends. He would have been 37. She was 23.

"Many years before, I had attended a dance recital at Gadsden State Junior College," Moore wrote. "I remembered one of the special dances performed by a young woman whose first and last names began with the letter 'K.' It was something I had never forgotten. Could that young woman have been Kayla Kisor?"

Moore later determined that it was.

"Long afterward, I would learn that Kayla had, in fact, performed a special dance routine at Gadsden State years before," he wrote.

Take a second to think about what's being said here. Moore first took notice of Kayla at a dance recital?

Perhaps you're wondering what "many years" means, and I wondered that too. Luckily, Moore again has cleared that up for us.

In an interview Moore gave earlier this year, he gave a similar account, but for one detail.

"It was, oh gosh, eight years later, or something, I met her," Moore said. "And when she told me her name, I remembered 'K. K.,' and I said, 'Haven't I met you before?'"

It's a simple matter of subtraction. When Roy Moore first took notice of Kayla she would have been as young as 15.

There's a little fuzziness, to be sure, in the timeline. There's the "or something" Moore fudges with in the interview. Eight years before could have been slightly too early to put Moore in Gadsden, he started work as an deputy district attorney there in 1977.

So maybe she was 15, or maybe she was 16. But still, here is a grown man at about 30 years old attending a girls' dance recital, and doing what exactly?

This would have been 1976 or 1977. (My best guess is the latter.)

It was in 1977, Wendy Miller says, when Moore first approached her at the Gadsden Mall, where she was working as a Santa's helper. She was 14 at the time.

It was in 1977, Beverly Young Nelson says, when Moore assaulted her behind the Old Hickory House restaurant, where she worked as a waitress. She was 16 at the time.

It was in 1977, Gina Richardson says, when Moore called her at her high school to ask her on a date, a date in which she says he forcefully kissed and left her scared of him. She was 18 at the time.

Is it too much to believe that Roy Moore wasn't praying for women then but preying on women?

Is it too much to believe these women?

If so, then you don't have to. You just have to believe Roy Moore.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/you_dont_have_to_believe_the_w.html#incart_river_home

I'm not going to post everything but AL.com is heavily invested in taking Moore out.

There is a new article urging religious folks not to vote for religious folks now.

AL.com has long been regarded as a biased liberal source and they basically think their shit doesn't stink.

I've had to deal with them as an advertiser and they are very high on themselves.

It will be interesting to see what happens from here with their site.

AL.com is basically where all the old print news media across the state consolidated.

The Birmingham News is the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama.[1] The paper is owned by Advance Publications, and was a daily newspaper from its founding through September 30, 2012. The next day, the News and its two sister Alabama newspapers, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times, moved to a thrice-weekly print-edition publication schedule (Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays). The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, also an Advance newspaper, also went to thrice-weekly on the same day.

Print-edition cutbacks[edit]
On May 24, 2012, Advance Publications announced that its three Alabama newspapers would do away with print editions on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The move was a result of the continuing decline in advertising revenue and circulation for its traditional print products. The move places increased emphasis on their website, al.com, and reorganizes the Alabama properties into two companies: Alabama Media Group, the editorial and advertising side; and Advance Central Services Alabama, which handles production, distribution and back-office services.[4]

The changes took effect on October 1, 2012, making Birmingham the second-largest city in the United States to not be served by a daily newspaper; New Orleans became the largest that same day. New Orleans lost that dubious distinction when Baton Rouge's daily newspaper, The Advocate, began publication of a daily edition in New Orleans; further, on June 24, 2013, The Times-Picayune resumed daily publication with a tabloid edition called "TP Street" sold only through newsstands and retailers.[5] With those two moves, Birmingham became the largest city in the country without its own daily newspaper.

Editorial stance[edit]
According to the paper, when offering a political endorsement, it generally skews toward the Republican Party with a few exceptions.[6][dead link] The paper endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election,[7] and on November 18, 2017, it endorsed Democrat Doug Jones in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birmingham_News

Advance Publications Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse, Jr. It is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922. The company is nominally headquartered in the Advance offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood, though Advance has never had an official headquarters.[2]

As of October 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest privately held company in the United States according to Forbes.[3] Crain's ranked Advance Publications the 4th largest private company in the New York area in 2012. In addition to holding publishing and communication assets, Advance serves as the holding company for the family's 31% stake in cable entertainment company Discovery Communications.[4] Advance also owns a 13% stake in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

No one in the State of Alabama would say AL.com is anything but a liberal slanted publication despite that claim in wiki.

Well the GOPe does not want Moore in there because they can't control him. They spent over $33M to defeat him.

The left/MSM is trying to shame people into not voting for Moore by calling them names and associating them with being supporters of pedophiles (words mean things). Read the comments on AL.com links.

They are on a full press to discredit anyone who might support Moore or doubt these allegations. Doing so makes you a monster.

It's all about suppressing the weaker potential Moore voters. If they can get enough of them to stay home on election day then Jones might win. They will claim it as a huge success and proof people are not supporting the conservative agenda.

AL.com has responded to a cease-and-desist letter from Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.

In a letter from Birmingham attorney John Thompson of Lightfoot Franklin White, AL.com publisher Alabama Media Group disputed Moore's claims of "false reports and/or careless reporting."

"AL.com stands by its reporting regarding all of the matters addressed in your letter. Alabamians - for that matter, all Americans - have a right to know about the individuals who represent them in public office," the letter said. "Like every political candidate, Mr. Moore is subject to scrutiny and analysis by the media and the general public regarding his fitness for public office."

AL.com's response was first reported by the Washington Post.

"We stand steadfast behind our reporting and will continue to seek the truth," Michelle Holmes Vice President of Content at Alabama Media Group, said Monday.

Moore threatened to sue the Washington Post and other media over stories detailing allegations he had sexual contact when teenage girls in the 1970s when he was in his 30s. The now-70-year-old former Alabama chief justice denies the charges.

Gadsden lawyer Trenton Garmon sent the cease-and-desist letter to AL.com last week.

In its response, AL.com said Moore's attorneys had not shown any stories were published with malice, a requirement for a defamation or libel lawsuit involving a public official.

"Your letter goes on to say the AL.com's reporting has harmed Mr. Moore's reputation. Mr. Moore, however, has quite a colorful past that long-preceded any of AL.com's recent coverage of your clients," AL.com's letter read. "Moreover, much of the information that you claim harmed Mr. Moore's reputation had already been published by those who knew him personally and reported by other media outlets. In other words, any damage to Mr. Moore's reputation was self-inflicted and had already occurred long before AL.com's recent reporting."

Any further litigation would also open Moore up to additional discovery, AL.com said.

"Should your clients nevertheless decide to pursue this matter further, AL.com will vigorously defend itself, and will employ all available remedies. We are confident that litigation would not only demonstrate that AL.com exercised the utmost diligence and employed high journalistic standards in reporting these stories, but would also reveal other important information about your clients."

You can read Alabama Media Group's letter to Moore's lawyer here.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/alcom_responds_to_letter_from.html#incart_river_home

The author of this article is basically commie. No for real.

Schoolmate of Roy Moore accuser: He was 'creepy and icky'

Patti Spradlin can talk about Roy Moore.

She grew up in Gadsden with Leigh Corfman, a woman who told the Washington Post she was 14 when Moore, then an assistant district attorney in Etowah County, picked her up and made sexual advances.

The group of friends rode bikes and skated together. They passed out of Eura Brown Elementary school and the gang from the Country Club and Clubview areas graduated from the skating rink to socializing at the Gadsden Mall.

It was a safe place, said Spradlin - who asked that her married name not be used, so as not to cause harm to her husband. But there was one man the middle school girls knew to avoid, she said.

"There was an element there that everyone was aware of," Spradlin said. "There were places you could duck into to avoid this person. And it was Roy Moore."

She remembers darting into Sugar and Spice, the children's clothing store her aunt owned in the mall, when her group saw Moore coming.

"He was always by himself. We just didn't dare make eye contact for fear that would signal something to him, so we'd scooch to the other side -- you know, walk on the other side of the mall.

"Everyone knew there was something to avoid that was creepy and icky and it was something that my friends didn't want anything to do with," she said.

Let me be clear.

Patti Spradlin is not another accuser of Roy Moore.

Patti Spradlin does not claim she was abused by him or groped by him or approached by him, and Moore adamantly denies all of the allegations against him.

But the allegations against Moore were somehow freeing for Spradlin. Because she says now - for the first time publicly - that she was abused as a child. Not by Moore. Not in the way Moore is accused, but in a way that has stifled her and choked her and, she says, changed the trajectory of her life.

It was Corfman who gave her the courage to even say it, she says. So she's tired of hearing people attack and criticize Corfman, and the other women quoted and referenced in last week's Washington Post story. She says she has known since childhood that something happened between Corfman and Moore, though she admits she never talked to her about it for fear of causing more pain.

"It was one of those things you just knew," she said.

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But she's weary of hearing "why now?"  and "Why just before the election?" She is tired of the innuendo and blame of those women.

Because she can look at her friend, and understand. She can look at herself, and understand.

"I was molested," she said. "It started when I was five years old and it went for several years. I have yet to confront this person. I've had several Christian counselors and psychiatrists and I didn't tell them until just this past year. It's been almost 50 years."

She can only imagine what it's like to see her abuser every day on TV.

"If I had to hear his voice -- whether it be on the radio or TV or see a picture of him and his name in print -- I would find the loudest and largest voice I could find to speak out," she said.

It has happened time and time again since the Roy Moore allegations began. An Arizona woman came forward after more than 60 years to talk about her abuser, and women across Alabama have done the same. Because it is a moment of change in the culture.

"It's not political," she said. "It's our lives."

But it puts her in a tough spot, because she doesn't support Doug Jones or his views on abortion.

So who is she going to vote for?

"I can't imagine voting for either one of them. I don't know. It's a horribly sad state.

"Literally."

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/schoolmate_of_roy_moore_accuse.html

Another person who let their whole life be define by high school and wanting to blame others.

Well they are the ones either didn't choose him or he didn't take them as his bride.

Now here it is 40 years later one is about the wife of a US Senator. The others have multiple failed marriages and baggage from high school.

There are some people who the apex of their lives was high school. Listening to 50+ yr old men go on about their high school days as being their highlight is weird.