Posted on 06/29/2014 7:17:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tea Party insurgent Chris McDaniel came tantalizingly close to knocking off Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi’s Republican primary runoff last week, but a surge in black voter turnout saved the six-term incumbent’s bacon. Cochran’s election to a seventh term in November now seems a foregone conclusion, and boy, are a lot of conservatives mad.
“There is something a bit unusual about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats,” McDaniel fumed on election night, slamming Cochran and the GOP establishment for “once again reaching across the aisle [and] abandoning the conservative movement.”
But whatever else the election outcome meant, Cochran’s “reaching across the aisle” made his victory a noteworthy instance of something that supposedly doesn’t and can’t happen in Mississippi even today: A white GOP politician sought support among Democrats, and particularly black Democrats. And far from being politically powerless, they tipped the election.
Under Mississippi’s open-primary rules, anyone who hadn’t already voted in the Democratic primary could vote in the Republican runoff. The Cochran camp openly solicited crossover support, as John Hayward wrote in Human Events, “through a combination of race-baiting attacks on McDaniel, and touting his [Cochran’s] ability to make government larger and bring home more goodies from Washington.” National Review called it a “Two-Faced Victory”: In majority-black neighborhoods, Cochran’s ads and mailers played up his support for historically black colleges and food stamps. In predominantly white districts, other pamphlets highlighted his support for the National Rifle Association and his opposition to abortion and Obamacare.....
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I think he might be missing a chromosome or maybe this guy is the missing link scientists have been looking for.
Why do they keep saying Cochran won? He didn’t. McDaniel needs to hang in there no matter what.
Just think...we have folks who identify themselves as “Conservative” who still insist folks vote for Cochran, and, not for another candidate
The liberals are cheerleading Cochran victory
Yes, reaching across the aisle to call members of your own party a bunch of racists.
Because the GOP and Democrats all use the same tactics. Overwhelm the little guy fighting for truth by agreeing in public that he's insignificant, has no standing, is fighting when the battle was already won. All they want is that "Republican" seat hopefully without having to spend another dime.
I pray that McDaniel won't fall for it. It's not a Republican seat if Cochran's in it, it's a sham. Not only that but conservatives will have effectively been swept under the rug if they beat Chris.
Please hang in there, Chris.
...even the four guys who still read the Boston Globe disagree...
I would really like to drop this guy off in Hinds county, MS after dark. A county that voted for “Mr. reach across the aisle”, with nothing but an I-phone and a .357 just to see which one gets the most use.
Why? Is there something scary about Hinds County at night? I was never scared there even in the worst areas. I was scared driving down country roads in Neshoba County when I was a young girl. I didn’t even know the history there either. I just thought it was creepy.
Haven’t you heard? Minorities have an official right to illegally vote
Last ping of the day
Soliciting Democrats to decide a GOP primary. Makes sense to me. /sarcasm
Sorry. I should have seen this one wasn’t Ping-ed yet.
Sorry to use Hinds Co. as a whipping post, so I’ll use my home County as example.
Mobile Co., AL instead.
Watch out for the areas NE of town. Especially after dark. By the way, they don’t care what you look like.
You are excused “this”time!! :>)
Lol. I don’t worry there either. Maybe I should ask my cousins who have lived there all their lives.
Now that I think about it, I probably would be more likely to go to the worst areas of Hinds County before I would the areas you speak of at night. But if I were with my husband, I would buck up and be ok. I think.
Strangely enough black literacy is lower today than it was in 1964. All thanks to the Democrats that are so concerned about protecting Black Voter’s rights.
I think what Jacoby is saying, is that blacks were “oppressed” at all. They showed IDs and were able to vote. Granted, they voted for the RINO, but ironically they killed the voter ID hysteria from the Left.
I hope he continues to fight and not give in.
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