It’s been less than 24 hours since ex-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was booted from the Trump administration, and he’s already mulling a political comeback, Politico reported.
According to two people familiar with Sessions’s thinking who spoke to Politico, the former attorney general — who left his 20-year Senate career to be publicly mauled by President Trump for two years — is considering running for his old seat in 2020. In a shocking special election, Sessions was replaced by Democrat Doug Jones last year, after the Republican candidate, former Alabama Judge Roy Moore, was publicly disgraced when allegations surfaced that he molested teenage girls when he was in his thirties.
Jones’s election marked the first time in 25 years a Democrat had won a Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama.
While Sessions may be privately considering his options, Luther Strange, the man appointed to hold Sessions’s seat until the 2017 special election is publicly urging the former attorney general to throw his hat in the ring.
Jeff Sessions for Senate in 2020! #alpolitics
— Luther Strange (@lutherstrange) November 7, 2018
Henry II said it best a thousand 850 years ago: Will no one rid us of this meddlesome racist?
Jeff, get a life. Your own, not someone else’s.
And I hope he runs, the nasty little Nazi Keebler Elf!
There’s that Drive-By Truckers song about Alabama and how “racism was only an issue on TV in the house I grew up in” and I shake my head to its obliviousness every time I hear it.
In other words, 2020 will be the next “most important election of our lifetimes,” and it will be a true statement.
The reason for this is because 2016 was actually “the most important election of our lifetime,” and America (with the help of Russia, the FBI, etc. etc.), blew it.