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In Mississippi, Senate hopeful Chris McDaniel embodies what the GOP fears about the tea party
The Washington Post's Politics ^ | June 9, 2014 | Robert Costa

Posted on 06/10/2014 2:15:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

COLDWATER, Miss. — Amid the Confederate flags, the guns and the pigs — in pens and on plates — Chris McDaniel worked the Tate County Fair in search of votes in his quest to beat Sen. Thad Cochran in a runoff election in two weeks.

“I need you,” McDaniel said to Brandy Davis, before also greeting Bobby Goodwin, a heavyset man carrying a handgun, at a booth for the Citizens Militia of Mississippi. The members of the militia, whose motto is “Any fate but submission,” implored the Republican to take a hard-line stance on immigration and gun rights. McDaniel assured them that he would and that he is not “going to join any club” in Washington.

“This is a peek back to a better time,” he told a reporter a short while later as he walked through a sea of makeshift stands. “I’m a Jeffersonian and a Reaganite, and I like to remember how good things once were.”

If McDaniel is going to beat Cochran, it will be in large part because of supporters such as those in Coldwater on Saturday, where the latest cause celebre of the tea party movement held his first post- primary event of note. Like many here, McDaniel is a true outsider — surrounded by volunteers with limited political experience, he engages little with the news media and less with leaders of his party....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Mississippi; Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: cochran; mcdaniel; mississippi; teaparty
Must be about to win or they'd ignore him, not attack him.
1 posted on 06/10/2014 2:15:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America’s greatest enemy is the MSM.


2 posted on 06/10/2014 2:18:11 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, I don’t think the WP got in enough snarky jabs about Southerners.


3 posted on 06/10/2014 3:21:50 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Cowboy Bob

“America’s greatest enemy is the MSM.”
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An equal enemy is the educational systems K thru Grad school.
I have posted many times that the Marxist control both media and education. Those are the golden keys for the takeover of America, and they are wining.


4 posted on 06/10/2014 3:39:21 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

A lot of the American people are what might be called “Jane Fonda Marxists” but don’t know it.


5 posted on 06/10/2014 3:49:57 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t Costa the “conservative” hire at the Post? I think he used to write for National Review. Odd how all their supposed “rightwing” writers turn out to be libs.


6 posted on 06/10/2014 3:52:06 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah yes, if only Southerners could read and write, they might make something of themselves, right, you Washington Post bigots?

The South really should cut off the north and let them fend for themselves. Let’s see who would survive this time.


7 posted on 06/10/2014 3:57:30 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lil Flower; Din Maker; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; ...

Mississippi ping minus- Theodore R. He’s already had his say,


8 posted on 06/10/2014 4:38:49 AM PDT by WKB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, somebodies at WaPo aren’t gett’in worried are they?


9 posted on 06/10/2014 7:01:52 AM PDT by Lake Living
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Mississippi ping minus- Theodore R. He’s already had his say,

Good move WKB! Thanks for the ping.

10 posted on 06/10/2014 9:49:48 AM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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