GOP Already +1 for Senate 2020

In 2017 the Alabama GOP really screwed up by nominating Judge Roy Moore for the US Senate, essentially giving the seat to Democrat Doug Jones.*

The pre-Trump GOP being run by weaklings and accommodationists, Alabama Republicans would probably have tapped former senator Jeff Sessions to run for his old seat.** Doug Jones, who is a long shot to keep his seat, is probably counting on the GOP to do just this.

Bad news for him. Former Auburn University football head coach Tommy Tuberville has announced he's running against Jones.

That ought to about do it.

Foreign reader(s) should understand that down south college football is kinda a big deal. We're understating the sport's importance on purpose as we don't think we could ever capture what college football means to the good citizens of the South.

Lemme put it this way, southern universities finally desegregated because the integrated northern schools were beating them. A way of life is one thing, but we're talking about college football here.

Auburn is in National College Athletic  Association's  Southeastern Conference, a thing unto itself which could secede (heh) from the NCAA and thrive on its own. Usually the national champion is from the SEC. The conference is run by a gang of dirty rotten bastards. So poltiics probbaly won't seem that rough to Tuberville.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the next senator from the Great State of Alabama.

*The end of Steve Bannon

**They did this is Wisconsin and Virginia in 2012