Allegations and 11th-hour allegations took down Moore. All is fair in politics and war. The GOP chose to break the rules in their unethical effort to stack the court, fuck them.
Just like the flag on the tower at sea you haven't a clue. The allegations didn't take down Moore. Twice he was kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court by his peers on the Supreme Court Ethics Committee. Twice he ran for governor and was rejected by the voters.
He is an arrogant, self-serving politician that fabricated 1st Amendment/Ten Commandment incidents to get himself elected to the ASC then repeatedly showed his disdain for The Law, be it state or federal. Moore repeatedly demonstrated he believed he was above the law.
Moore didn't win the primary election as neither he nor the Interim Senator Luther Strange nor the 8 other challengers got enough votes to win outright. Moore and Strange competed in a runoff election and it was really a contest of the lessor of two lessors. Strange was tainted by his investigation of the then governor on corruption charges being terminated when that governor, Bentley, appointed Strange to fill Sessions term on an interim basis. Bentley subsequently was forced to resign. Strange got tagged with quid pro quo allegations.
Neither Moore nor Strange ran an effective campaign. Nobody got 39% of the votes cast. Moore won by 11 points with under 500,000 cast votes in the runoff election.
The sexual innuendo about Moore asking teenagers for dates 30 years ago got air time for bombshell effect but like the current allegation there was a lack of substantiation and there were political affiliations involved. Timing of the allegations were suspect, as well as, 30 year memories of what was said or implied. They could have happened ... or not.
There were Republican voters and GOP officials that turned on Moore over the allegations but there were more that simply recognized his track record as a twice defrocked Supreme Court Chief Justice and as twice rejected candidate in gubernatorial campaigns. He was not suitable for election to the U.S. Senate even if the allegations were not true.
Many Republicans and Independents voted against Moore for Senate in the Special Election based on his track record. Many more did NOT vote in protest, defaulting the election to the Democrat Jones to sink Moore.
There were only 1.2 million votes cast in Jones/Moore election with Moore getting 650,000 votes and Jones winning with around 670,000. There were over 1.3 million votes cast for Trump alone two years earlier with Mrs Clinton getting around 730,000 votes. A total of over 2 million votes cast out of 3.3 million registered voters. Moore got less than half of Trump's vote count.
It was obvious to even the most casual observer that Moore was a dead man walking. Moore repeatedly refused to debate during the series of elections. Republicans that voted for Jones (or stayed at home) rationalized better a Democrat get elected in the Special Election for 3 years than the arrogant ex-judge. Mark it down, a Republican will be voted in at the next regular election in 2021 just as Democrat after Democrat was elected for decades in Alabama when they held control.
My wife is an arch conservative and she had a Doug Jones For Senate sign in our yard as did quite a few of the Republicans and Independents yards. Moore signs were sparse.
My hand painted sign was an international symbol, a red circle with a diagonal slash running through the single word, MOORE.
As for your comment about the GOP breaking the rules in an unethical effort to stack SCOTUS refresh your history of FDR's Court Packing ploy.
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 was a legislative initiative proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional.
