How did Tommy Tuberville get elected?

[RowingFiend]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

Doug Jones didn’t win because of anything he promised. He only won because his opponent was a sexual predator who liked underage girls and that was bridge too far even for Alabama.

Cool story. What crimes was he charged with? Was he convicted?

[Millertime1]

Originally Posted by BOS2IAD

How did Obama get elected? How about Joe Biden? Or AOC? Or Tlaib? Or Omar?

All of those people were clearly more qualified than Tuberville. I didn't put this question in the ilhan Omar thread because I didn't want to turn that into a whataboutism thread. Thanks for doing that to mine.

[EscAlaMike]

Originally Posted by Millertime1

All of those people were clearly more qualified than Tuberville.

More qualified? There are only three qualifications to be a US Senator - not counting "getting more votes than the other guy":

1) at least 30 years old
2) US citizen for 9 years
3) resident of state representing

[Ex New Yorker]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

Anti-Republican nonsense fills this thread.
Tuberville was elected. He will hold that office until the day he doesn't.
Democrats are in no position to ask how anyone got elected, since their ranks are filled with unqualified, dishonest, self serving parasites.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by hooligan

Bingo. Because SEC football, that's how.

I bet Nick Saban could primary him handily.

Nick Saban is a Democrat

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by GreggT

He won because he ran against a Liberal opponent who originally won the seat because he promised he would represent ALL of Alabama, a conservative state. Well he lied and voted with Chuck in all but 22% of the time. He voted to impeach the president who was highly popular in Alabama. The Republicans could have run Donald Duck and won that Senate seat.

Senator Jones did represent all of Alabama.

people like you just like voting for crazy people.

Lucky for you, the most Tommy Tuberville ever did was steal money from colleges, rather than rape little girls.

[BOS2IAD]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

Anti-Republican nonsense fills this thread.
Tuberville was elected. He will hold that office until the day he doesn't.
Democrats are in no position to ask how anyone got elected, since their ranks are filled with unqualified, dishonest, self serving parasites.

I ran out of rep...but...well said

[Blues4evr]

Originally Posted by Millertime1

All of those people were clearly more qualified than Tuberville. I didn't put this question in the ilhan Omar thread because I didn't want to turn that into a whataboutism thread. Thanks for doing that to mine.

He is just as qualified as AOC, heck my dog would be better then AOC.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by brownbagg

because he was head coach at auburn

Yup. He was cute and could talk football.

And he wasn't Jeff Sessions.

It's a legendary irony.
Jeff Sessions never really wanted to be a Senator. He was a lawyer and happy to be one, but Sessions was ambitious, and he wanted a seat on the Supreme Court.

The Senate was his way of positioning himself to get the position, because he had been rejected as a candidate for a bench in the Federal District Court, a typical first step to SCOTUS. As a Senator, he could cultivate some support for the critical approval Senate meetings.
But he didn't stand much of a chance of getting it when Obama was President. His route was pretty much closed.

But when Trump became the Republican nominee, Sessions saw his doors opening, so he became Trumps first Senatorial endorser and an enthusiastic campaigner for his best prospect.

But Trump wasn't about to hand over that glory to someone as well known as Jeff Sessions.
He wanted an anonymous SCOTUS prospect who he could boost himself and had no independent qualifications that could be bragged about. The next SCOTUS Justice was going to be solely a Trump choice and no one else's.

So Sessions took the Attorney General's job as consolation prize. At least, it was closer to the Supreme Court than the Senate, and he was more closely connected as a former Judge than a current Senator.

Sessions spent over 10 years planning and executing that plan to get on the Supreme Court. By the time he became Atty. General, he even had built some Senatorial support for it.

It was all Bingo and gold dust for Sessions. Until he had to recuse himself a month later.
Trump was planning on Sessions to defend him in the Senate when necessary. The necessity may be very soon in the coming. Trump wanted a lawyer with some Senate clout.

And then Sessions had to recuse himself or face impeachment and removal. The United States' Attorney General cannot be a convicted criminal's close associate. That's too close to collusion.

Within 18 months, Sessions' legal career was as wrecked as a car wrapped around a tree, and he lost his nomination to be the Alabama Republican candidate for Senator to a football coach from Arkansas!

When Trump told Alabama to hate Jeff Sessions, Alabama sure did hate him.

This is a story that the Greeks would have made a classic tragedy.
The only thing that's missing is the Gods forgot to kill Sessions after they disgraced him.