'If it was my daughter, I'd break his face': Republican lawmaker unleashes on Roy Moore

Republican Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia said he didn't "feel comfortable" with the response from Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Alabama, to a string of sexual-misconduct allegations against him, including that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, when he was 32.

Speaking to CNN's John Berman on Wednesday, Taylor, a former US Navy SEAL, expressed skepticism about Moore's denials of the allegations.

"All I know is what I've seen," Taylor said. "I saw the man give his interview. Me personally, I don't think it was sufficient enough."

Taylor continued: "The 14-year-old girl that was there, I can tell you right now if it was my daughter, I'd break his face, I'd break his fingers, and I'd probably do a lot worse."

Since a November 9 Washington Post report detailed allegations that Moore pursued relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s and working in a district attorney's office, several other women have come forward with similar stories.

Moore's campaign has floated theories that the accusers may have been politically motivated. Moore has also said he doesn't remember dating any young women without their mothers' permission.


http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-taylor-roy-moore-navy-seal-2017-11

JFK in the City of Hate: How Dallas earned its ugly label before the assassination

Fagin points to three incidents — all of which took place in Dallas — that preceded Kennedy’s assassination and helped fuel the City of Hate label. All stemmed from Dallas’s modest but powerful concentration of right-wing extremists who vilified Democrats as soft on communism and found a political home in one of Texas’s most conservative and wealthy cities.

The first took place on Nov. 4, 1960, four days before the election that put Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House.

On his last major campaign swing through his home state of Texas, Johnson, then the Senate majority leader, was due to give a speech at a downtown Dallas hotel. Republicans in town were also staging a major event that day, with hundreds converging outside the hotel “to show the Senate majority leader was not welcome,” Fagin said.

Johnson was given the option of taking a back entrance to reach the speaking venue across the street, but chose instead to walk through the crowd, Lady Bird at his side. Photographs circulated nationwide showed screaming, hostile protesters barricading the street to block the Johnsons from crossing. One grabbed Lady Bird’s gloves and tossed them in the gutter.

“They were a small group of demonstrators so extreme in their actions that they helped to characterize Dallas,” Fagin said.

The second incident to mar Dallas’s reputation took place at a White House luncheon hosted by Kennedy, now the president, for a group of Texas newspaper publishers in October 1961. At the table was Ted Dealey, then the publisher of the Dallas Morning News and the son of George Bannerman Dealey, for whom Dealey Plaza is named.

During the lunch, Dealey told Kennedy “that the country needs a man on horseback, and Kennedy is riding around on Caroline’s tricycle,” Fagin said. It was not so much the political criticism that irked Kennedy but rather the involvement of his 3-year-old daughter.

After Dealey’s confrontation with Kennedy, Jim Chambers, then the publisher of the competing Dallas Times Herald, told the president that Dealey didn’t represent all of Dallas and apologized on behalf of the city, Fagin said.

The final incident coincided with Adlai Stevenson’s visit to town in October 1963. Stevenson, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, came to Dallas to give a speech, and ultraconservative demonstrators infiltrated the crowd. One man used a bullhorn to chastise Stevenson and disrupt the speech’s broadcast.

Upon leaving the auditorium, Stevenson came upon roughly 100 demonstrators behind a barricade, including one particularly agitated woman. As Stevenson walked over to talk to her, a man nearby spit on him, and the woman whacked him on the head with her sign.

Stevenson cautioned Kennedy about the trip he would be taking to Dallas one month later, Fagin said.

Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, said that after Kennedy’s assassination, history was often read in reverse by those who said “it makes sense that Kennedy was killed there.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/11/22/jfk-in-the-city-of-hate-how-dallas-earned-its-ugly-label-before-the-assassination/?utm_term=.df644d01db48

Democratic Wave Begins Forming Off Political Coast

According to the national polls, the generic congressional ballot test points to a wave as well. Cook Political Report House Editor David Wasserman estimates that Democrats need to win the House popular vote, which is what the generic ballot test tries to replicate, by at least 7 or 8 points to win 218 districts, the barest of majorities. The RealClearPolitics average is a Democratic advantage of 10.7 points; the last eight RCP averages have shown the Democratic lead ranging from 7 to 15 points.

The off-year election results also point to a wave. It was a foregone conclusion that Democrats would pick up the governorship of New Jersey, but state legislative gains in Virginia, Georgia, Washington, and elsewhere are ominous for Republicans. Tim Storey, the elections guru at the National Conference of State Legislatures, says that about 33 state legislative seats have shifted from Republican to Democrat this year, while just two have gone from Democrat to Republican, and a couple of seats could go either way. In special congressional elections, in strongly GOP districts in Georgia, Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina, Republicans have come out on top, but voting patterns showed them underperforming the norm by 6 to 12 points. These results do not bode well for the 23 GOP-held districts won last year by Hillary Clinton or for those that Trump won narrowly.

Could the Republican majorities in the U.S. House and Senate become magically more legislatively productive in the coming year? Sure, but it’s unlikely. A repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act hasn’t and isn’t likely to happen, even with the latest Senate bid to include a repeal of mandated individual coverage in its tax bill. A major infrastructure program and a border wall are equally dubious propositions.

Yes, the House passed a tax bill on Thursday, but I have been skeptical from the start and remain skeptical that any major tax reform or big tax cut will be enacted into law. Major tax reform occurs only when it has strong bipartisan support, as the 1986 tax-reform package did, or if a party has big majorities and can muscle it through. Neither is the case today.


https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/democratic-wave-begins-forming-political-coast

I have a question about Joe Barton's dick pic.

If the recipient consented, why did she make it public?

A Republican just whipped his dick out and the networks are focused on Conyers

There’s your “left wing media bias”.

Alabama Young Republicans withdraw endorsement of Roy Moore

Jackie Curtiss should be a lock to support a Republican Senate nominee in her home state of Alabama.

The 27-year-old is chair of the Young Republican Federation of Alabama and a member of the state party's steering committee.

But recent allegations of sexual misconduct against GOP nominee Roy Moore have set Curtiss and many of her fellow young conservatives against the state party, which is standing by Moore. On a Saturday conference call, the Young Republican Federation, which represents members across the state ages 18 to 40, voted to suspend support for Moore unless — and until — he can discredit allegations that he had improper relationships with teenage girls and young women decades ago.

"Obviously, I would never vote for Doug Jones," the Democratic candidate in the race, Curtiss said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "At this point, I would probably not even go to vote on Dec. 12."



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/why-alabama-young-republicans-deserted-roy-moore-n822731

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Poll: 43% of Republicans would vote for a candidate accused of sexual harassment vs 41% who would no

GOP operative: 'I just donated to a Democrat for the first time' in Alabama Senate race

Tim Miller, a prominent GOP operative and the former communications director for Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign, said Tuesday that he has donated to Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones's campaign in Alabama.

"I just donated to a Democrat for the first time in my life if any of yall want to do so as well," Miller, a partner at the consulting firm Definers Public Affairs, tweeted.

The move comes as Alabama GOP special election nominee Roy Moore faces allegations that he pursued sexual and romantic relations with teenage girls when he was in his 30s.

While Moore has forcefully denied most of the allegations, including one from a woman who says she was 14 years old when she had a sexual encounter with Moore, he has faced calls from GOP officials across the country to withdraw from the race.


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/361451-gop-operative-im-donating-to-a-dem-for-the-first-time-in-alabama-senate