With apology to 1930’s songwriters Mitchell Parish and Frank Perkins:   “We lived our little drama, we endured the electoral fight, when the Pols fell on Alabama Tuesday night.”  Yes, the Alabama special Senatorial election is finally over, and Democrat Doug Jones came out the winner.  The media is ecstatic, busy pushing the Alabama election as a sea change which presages a Democrat wave in 2018.  Dream on.  Here’s what really happened.  Jeff Sessions resigned his seat to become Attorney General.  The Governor of Alabama appointed Luther Strange to fill the seat, pending August primaries for a special election to be held December 12.  Now, Alabama went for Trump by 28% last year, and no Democrat had been elected Statewide in years, so the Republican primary was key.  A number of Republicans ran for the seat, among them, Congressman Mo Brooks, a Freedom Caucus member with an impeccable conservative record.  Brooks would have been an ideal candidate for the general election, but for one problem.  Luther Strange had pledged his fealty to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and promised to vote to retain McConnell as Leader.  Brooks refused to make such a promise.  Brooks refused to be a McConnell lap dog.  Instead, Brooks threatened to adhere to his principles, and to put the citizens’ interests above those of politicians and lobbyists.  The Establishment swamp creatures couldn’t take that chance, so McConnell stuck his nose, and presumably, his enormous neck wattle, into the Alabama primary race.  With something like 14 candidates in the primary, it was likely that no one would get over 50%, triggering a runoff.  McConnell decided that the “smart” thing to do was to put millions of dollars into the race, not to support Strange, but to knock out Mo Brooks, whom he rightly identified as the greatest threat in a 2 person runoff.  McConnell succeeded in crippling Brooks, who finished third.  However, Big Luther Strange finished second to Judge Roy Moore.  McConnell poured money into Alabama for the runoff.  He even got the President, then playing ball with McConnell to get his agenda enacted, to go to Alabama to support Big Luther.  It didn’t work.  Despite Mitch McConnell and all his “smart” money, the Alabama voters chose Roy Moore by a 12% margin.  Picture that.  Instead of the sitting Senator, supported by the RNC, and endorsed by the President, the voters chose the former Alabama Chief Justice, who was twice removed from that office, for refusing to remove a 10 Commandments monument from the courthouse lawn, and refusing to enforce federal court orders on gay marriage.  A guy who spends most of his time riding around on a horse, wearing a cowboy hat.  Whew!  Good job Mitch!  So, having gone all in on Big Luther to pervert the electoral process, McConnell pulled all support from Alabama.  Then the Washington Post got into the act.  The New York Times used to advertise its Want Ads with the motto, “I got my job through the New York Times.”  Doug Jones’ motto ought to be, “I got my job through the Washington Post.”  The Post dug up a woman who claimed that when she was 14, 38 years ago, Moore inappropriately touched her.  He denied it.  Then another woman came  forward (or was pushed by lawyer Gloria All—–), with a 40 year old claim that Moore tried to date her as a teenager.  Moore said he didn’t know her.  But she had a yearbook inscribed by Moore, or so she claimed.  Moore demanded forensic testing on the book.  No one understood why her lawyer refused to permit the test until the woman admitted the signature was forged.  No, no, the media told us, it’s only “partially forged.”  Children, take it from my years of legal experience, when part of your evidence is forged, all of it is tainted.  Even Gloria All—– has heard the legal term “false in one, false in all.”  It didn’t stop the continual drumbeat in Alabama.  Let’s face it, Roy Moore was a certifiable kook to begin with, but being denounced every day as a pedophile starting a month from the election is bound to hamper any candidate, even an Alabama Republican.  Democrat Doug Jones is a decided leftist, a real drawback in Alabama, but then again Moore was never an overwhelmingly popular candidate.  He had run for Governor twice, and lost.  When he was elected Chief Justice, he garnered only 52% of the vote, that’s 52% without being an accused child molester.  On top of that, Moore, not only got no support from the RNC, senior Senator Richard Shelby urged Alabama Republicans to write-in “a distinguished Republican” rather than vote for Moore.   Almost 23,000 Alabamans took Shelby’s advice.  Jones beat Moore by 20,715 votes.  Do the math.  At the end of the day, what the Left is casting as the harbinger of a Democrat wave is the victory of a Democrat who got to run in a special election against a whacky, unpopular Republican who even Republicans didn’t support, who never discussed any issue of interest to the electorate, who took a vacation the weekend before the election, and who was denounced 24 hours a day, by both sides, as a child molester.  And with all these advantages, Doug Jones managed to reduce Moore’s Statewide numbers from 52% to 48.4%.  Jones didn’t even reach 50% himself.  So, congratulations Senator Jones.  Enjoy your 2 years in the Senate, because come 2020, you are history.  Yes, Doug, you will go the way of Nicholas Brady.  Who?  Oh, he was a temporary Senator from New Jersey; just until the next election.  Nobody remembers him either.  And what of the loss of a safe Senate seat, reducing the Republican margin to 51-49?  In my judgment, the loss of the seat is worth not having to endure the continual sex abuser side show that was planned for Moore.  You see,  the Dems didn’t care about Moore.  They were using his allegations as a wedge to get at Trump.  That’s why they threw Bill Clinton, Al Franken and John Conyers under the bus.  They’ve cleared the field to replay the Trump allegations.  They’ve trotted out the same women who made complaints before the election.  Their Trump Derangement Syndrome has them eating their own to go after the President.  They’ll stop at nothing.