[2ndDivisionVet]

I wonder if Alec knows that all that slavery era, KKK and Jim Crow racism was perpetrated by the Democratic Party, not the Republicans and that Thad was a Democrat for many, many years?

[CyberAnt]

This is why the repubs should never allow an “open” primary.

The dems are known for using those to get rid of the candidates they don’t want to win.

CA did it for the first time this year .. and I’m thinking about making a big stink about it.

[GeronL]

There is absolutely no reason for conservatives to vote for a candidate in November who is beholden to the other party

[Viennacon]

Defund the GOP

[Suz in AZ]

Someone could go into these neighborhoods and innocently interview them on camera and ask why they voted and did they intend to vote for Thad again in the general.

Then use it as evidence.

[cynwoody]

The takeaway is obvious: Primaries should be closed, and runoffs should only be open to those who voted in the primary that caused the runoff.

[zeestephen]

If the Democrat can get 25% of the white vote, or if a lot of Conservatives stay home, Thad Cochran could easily lose the general election.

Update:

US Congressman Travis Childers, a white guy, a Blue Dog Democrat, is Cochran's opponent.

He's pro-Life, pro-Gun.

In 2010, he was endorsed by the NRA and by National Right to Life.

Most recent polls are 3 months old.

He trailed Cochran by 17% in March.

I'll bet it's a whole lot closer today.

[freebilly]

Good luck in the general, Cochran. Conservative will desert you like you did indecent things with farm animals....

[VerySadAmerican]

Cochran is probably more of a racist than any tea party member. His actions today prove it. He goes out and asks for black votes, gets them then claims they didn’t help him win. I wish McDaniel would have countered with his own racist ads pointing out how Cochran was from the “old” republican party who has always hated blacks.

[SoFloFreeper]

Just what the Democrats have given them. Nothing.

[iontheball]

The Repubican’s have outdone themselves on this one. They appear to be getting dumber and dumber. But all is not what it seems and this Repubican win is not the result of shooting themselves in the foot. Rather, this election is where they were forced to take off their sheepskin and reveal their true colors?

[jimfree]

Another day, another code word.

[windsorknot]

Don’t look at me; please, don’t mistake me for a Republicrat.

[RetiredArmy]

In other news, what used to be the republican party saw further conservatives refuse to donate money to their cause. I know that I have not given a DIME to the stinking RINO party in years. The only donations I have made are to certain individual people, but not too the stinking party.

[vetvetdoug]

Cochran and his people sold themselves out to the devil to win the Republican Primary. The devil is going to eat him alive in the general election. Childers is going to expose every little aspect of his dealings and people are not going to be happy voting for a back stabbing crook. Childers will do it surgically and with a thousand cuts and the voters that put Cochran in that crossed party lines will not support him in the General election. Those voters plus the disenchanted McDaniel voters and the Democrat voters will put Childers over the top easily. Cochran is toast IMO. Barbour has lost the Mississippi Senate seat with his meddling and the Republicans have no chance in November of taking the Senate.

[Alas Babylon!]

This whole idea that McDaniel and, for that matter, any conservative is a racist, is just a huge slander.

So he longed for the days of Jefferson and Reagan, and that is a priori evidence he wants Jim Crow? Or the good ole days of country fairs and cotton candy means he wants black people back in chains?

What this is actually IS racism. Racism against whites, who are portrayed as racist against blacks, simply for loving their country and its heritage.

I never ever heard him or ANY conservative say he wants to go back to slavery and Jim Crow... Barring that, they are simply smearing him when trying to find so-called code words suggesting such when people reminisce about the past. You do it, I do it, everyone does. It doesn't mean we want to take away the blacks voting rights.

[Billthedrill]

But let’s give credit where it’s due, to the voters themselves. They are not sheep, to be led about...

Really? What, exactly, do these measures constitute if it isn't voter bribery? And yes, predictably, they're racial reparations, more 0bamacare, and more protection for voter fraud. Lovely.