Meanwhile, back in Alabama ... Will Gary Palmer challenge Tuberville or Britt ...

So now Cult45 has turned on Tubs? Britt was elected 5 mins ago and has a good bit left in her term.

Geez, some of you people are batshit crazy.

you're confused ... STT endorsed Trump ... I'm not part of the Cult45 clan. ... Britt has been in office six months too long. Tuberville > Shelby; Tuberville < Palmer.

Palmer could run for another term (ending 2026) and then start focusing on running for Senate vs Britt. Tuberville is 69 now and would be up for re-election in 2026. Not sure if Palmer has any interest in running for Senate.

Me too. But, Alabama voters are consistently bad voters. Just look at the Governor.

"I would take Palmer in a heart beat over either of those two"

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Gary Palmer is Alabama's most conservative elected Rep in DC. Seems like he could take on one of these and win. He'd probably only serve one term, two at the very most. Just not sure that he wants to stay in DC that long.

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Same lobby money bought Britt and Tuberville. Unless Tubs gets a conscience about spending or the Alabama chamber of commerce feels the flubs are too unsavory for their national masters, I don't see the push for a change. Palmer will be chasing the same money if he runs, so it really doesn't make much of a difference either way.

Palmer is a thinker not an actual do-er, so to speak. Good on policy but he’s not a fighter. We already have good policies but we lack people who will fight for them.

He brought that up ... in general comments ... before. The question is ... is he going to blow off his commitment to term limits. If he stays on past 10 to 12 years, then he goes against his word. To my knowledge, he never say he wouldn't run for Senate after his time in the U.S. House.

Tubs wants to be governor- that’s his next move - I know someone already working on getting his campaign staff together

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Palmer's actual voting record does not support your comments.

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Senate is a different beast. You saw what the GOP did to Brooks...twice. If Palmer isn't playing ball, it will go the same way for him.

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Alabama voters have been consistently bad. One Governor went to jail, another resigned ... then the anti-education, close down small businesses during Covid Gov, Kay Ivey won again... then a lobbyist (Britt) got elected to the U.S. Senate. Palmer would be a welcomed change, as would Tommy Battle as Governor.

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It's not just the voters. Look what gets on the ballot. Take Britt for example. The woman was the head lobbyist for one of the biggest lobby groups in the state, connected to the chamber of commerce (hardly a friend to conservatives), whose only credentials were being Richard Shelby's protege. She practically sleepwalked into office with every big money lobbyist army at her back. The same for Tuberville, who had zero credentials outside of football other than saying "yes" whenever big money crooked a finger. You say Brooks wasn't a good Senate candidate, but he was arguably the most conservative politician in this state. He was torpedoed by PACs in his first attempt at Senate and the lobby money went so far as to run a bullshite vote splitting war hero to knock down his numbers the second time around.

We don't get to vote on quality candidates. If they don't play ball, they don't sniff the level of the Senate. If Palmer IS a good candidate, he'll get the same treatment as Brooks, regardless of how much better of a candidate he may appear to be.