THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT'S LAST DITCH EFFORTS TO STOP ROY MOORE FROM WINNING PRIMARY RUNOFF

DEBATE, MEDIA SMEAR ATTACKS, A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT ALL FIGURE IN LAST DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 26th ELECTION DAY

When he was interviewed on "60 Minutes" recently, former White House strategist Steve Bannon cited Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a great enemy of President Trump, even greater than House Speaker Paul Ryan.

McConnell's Super PAC and allied interests have relentlessly dumped millions into Alabama to fuel a  massive  media campaign to smear Judge Roy Moore and prevent him from winning the runoff election next Tuesday.

One ad claims Moore does not support President Trump's notion of a wall on the southern border, even though Moore has publicly said he fully supports President Trump including "the Wall".

As we all learned from the 2016 Republican primary season, the countless debates served one purpose.   They were designed to destroy candidates not approved by the Republican Establishment and ended up  being a gauntlet  designed to destroy Donald J. Trump.

Appointed Senator Luther Strange's efforts to push Roy Moore into debates recently were all couched in high sounding language with the implication that Moore didn't want to debate.

For Moore, it was important that a debate not be a rehash of the nasty and destructive formats used against Donald Trump during last year's presidential campaign.

Moore  called for a 'man to man' debate with his opponent.

In the end, Moore got Strange to agree to a Lincoln-Douglas type debate with no biased moderators or reporters in the picture, just the two candidates stating their cases.   That debate is set for Thursday at 5:30 Central Time in Montgomery.

On Saturday, President Trump will speak at a rally for Strange in Huntsville.

Last weekend the president tweeted his support for Strange saying that "Big Luther"..."gets things done".

The tenor of President Trump's message bore no resemblance to other tweets or speeches he has made in recent years.

The notion that a candidate "gets things done" is the tired old argument of the Republican Establishment insiders when faced with  conservative outsider challengers.

The last days of the campaign are also being marked by mainstream media reporting that attempts to portray Roy Moore as everything from a religious fanatic to a racist.

The reporting is as twisted as its ever been reminding me of an infamous incident during the 1964 campaign for the White House.   That's when the 'CBS Evening News' aired a story by reporter Daniel Schorr on a visit to Germany by Senator Barry Goldwater.

Goldwater visited an old military friend and talked about the 'good old days'.   CBS actually reported that Barry Goldwater (whose ancestors were Russian Jews) was praising Nazi Germany.

Its getting that low and lower for media coverage of Roy Moore right now and in the days ahead.