What Chris McDaniel doesn’t understand about the tea party (HUGE Hurl Warning)

The Washington Post's Plum Line ^ | July 3, 2014 | Paul Waldman

[2ndDivisionVet]

Chris McDaniel, who lost a runoff election to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), is not giving up. Not only has he been raising money to mount a legal challenge to Cochran’s victory, the state senator and radio host is now offering $1,000 to anyone who comes forward with evidence of electoral shenanigans in last week’s vote. It seems that McDaniel doesn’t understand how this whole thing is supposed to work. I wouldn’t be surprised if even some of the people who supported him in his campaign to unseat Cochran start distancing themselves from him before long.

This has nothing to do with the merit of McDaniel’s claim of “thousands of voting irregularities and a stolen election.” It’s about how the tea party works and what its tactics are meant to accomplish.

Chris McDaniel wanted to go to the Senate, and the people who supported him wanted that, too. But just by making the runoff, McDaniel served his purpose for the tea party, which was to maintain the appropriate level of fear among Republican elected officials. After some primaries in which Republicans easily dispatched challenges from the right, Eric Cantor’s loss and Cochran’s near-loss have put the fear of the right back into Republicans in Congress. So for the tea party, it’s mission accomplished. At this point, the tiny chance that McDaniel might actually prevail in a lawsuit doesn’t make it worth their while to fight for, particularly given that the longer he keeps up this battle, the crazier he looks — and by extension, the less reasonable he makes his supporters look.

I’m not saying that everything is about appearances for the tea party and that they don’t have policy goals, because they do. But they understand that electing committed tea partiers is only one way to achieve those goals....

[Smokin' Joe]

In time, we’ll prevail.

You got it. Keep your powder dry.

[Mastador1]

Aren’t you all impressed how someone completely outside of the Tea Party can tell you about how the Tea Party Thinks? Equally impressive is democraps giving Conservatives advice on how to win elections.

[Shugee]

“...if McDaniel proves rampant voter fraud in the run off the Left’s cries that there is no reason for voter IDs is proven false.”

Mississippi does have Voter ID.

from http://msvoterid.ms.gov/

Beginning with the June 3, 2014, Primary Election, all Mississippians voting at the polls will be required to show a photo ID card. Also, individuals voting in person by absentee ballot in person in the Circuit Clerk’s office prior to the June 3, 2014 Primary Election Day will be required to show a photo ID.
Eligible voters casting an absentee ballot by mail for the Primary Election on June 3, 2014, do NOT have to show a photo ID. Also, overseas and uniformed military voting by absentee ballot by email or fax do not have to show a photo ID.

[Shugee]

“That’s why I don’t use the “tea party” label. It has been hijacked by people who want low taxes, but will abandon true conservatives when it comes to just about everything else.”

I have found that no matter what you call yourself, it will be maligned and distorted. That’s part of the bully tactics of RINOs and libs. Sure, call yourself constitutional conservative or liberty party or whatever. I can’t tell you how many “conservative” politicians there are in Texas right now as every single republican (and even some dems) claims they are. PACs and other groups use terms like liberty, conservatives, freedom, patriots, etc. in their name when they are actually run by RINOs and libs.

It took a lot of research to sort out the true conservatives in our last Texas primary. We experienced a rash of mailings called slates in which the above groups presented their endorsements on a ballot type card. It’s called pay-to-play slates. I not only researched each candidate separately, but also the groups and their controlling officers/founders. What an eyeopener. If I went by each group’s name alone, I would have been grossly mislead into believing they were conservative when they were RINOs or worse. Of course, their endorsements reflected their views. Even amongst the most conservative groups, there were endorsement conflicts which reflected grudges, refusal to pay-to-play, and other pettiness.

So what’s in a name?

[Pontiac]

Mississippi does have Voter ID.

OK; but we’re talking about the national Liberals.

It is a Democrat article of faith that voter ID is racist and there is no wide spread voter fraud in the US.

IF McDaniel proves that voter fraud swung an election in Mississippi and that Demonrat voters were the primary perpetrators of the fraud how can they continue to advance the idea that voter ID is not needed nationwide.

[Din Maker]

Thanks for the "hurl" warning. I will not read one word of this article from the WAPO rag. Why do you post crap like this Vet? Right now we need encouraging news to keep this fight in MS going. But, please know I do appreciate you and your contributions to this website.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I was an intelligence analyst in the Army and later, but was never a cheerleader anywhere. It’s what I do, warn people. Others here can post rainbows, unicorns and cotton candy threads.