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Mississippi Bloodbath: Open Warfare Breaks out in Tea Party vs. Barbour, Cochran
Breitbart ^ | 3/19/2014 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 03/20/2014 2:54:47 AM PDT by grimalkin

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To: grimalkin

One reason why the GOP’s gains this year will be far less than expected. They’d much rather nuke each other to dust than take the fight to the dems.


21 posted on 03/20/2014 4:31:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: grimalkin

——they will never have the strength of the grassroots——

Well I guess we’ll see if the grassroots are real or just a figment of Tea Party imagination.

The question boils down to numbers now

It’s High Noon


22 posted on 03/20/2014 4:35:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: skinkinthegrass
I rem: when the Barbours, were “the good team/guys/gals”
now he's Establishment GOP. *spit*
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That was when we were all 'young' and foolish. The Tea Party has come a long way from those times. Believe it or not, we once thought the likes of Barbour and the Republican elites had our interests at heart. They fooled us once, but their snookering days are over. Times are way too serious to keep drinking that cool aid.

23 posted on 03/20/2014 4:35:43 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: grimalkin

They got used to that power. When it came to the point of their overreach to where it affected all of us, those who were asleep or fooled... woke up. When they took the job market... when they spent into oblivion... when they took our health care.... when their decisions and their power to destroy became obvious... their power is being removed.. one by one... and they are furious. How dare you question their position. How dare you have enough sense and power to remove us. How dare you think for yourselves.....

Welcome to the Tea Party Nation!


24 posted on 03/20/2014 4:47:27 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: mazda77
.....Barbour is entrenched in the establishment. He was even a lobbying partner with Terry McCauliffe....


25 posted on 03/20/2014 4:47:36 AM PDT by Liz
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To: skinkinthegrass

Barbour was always the darling of liberal Sunday talk shows... that should have given us a hint...


26 posted on 03/20/2014 4:47:54 AM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024685964 - democrats hating Obamacare...)
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To: skinkinthegrass; frnewsjunkie
"Mississippi’s GOP senate primary is quickly becoming ground zero in 2014 for the fight between the establishment and the conservative grassroots for control of the Republican Party’s future."

I look at this at slightly different angle. The Tea Party is not about the future of the GOP, it is about the future of America. The establishment GOP is about the future of the establishment GOP, and the death of America via cooperation with the America hating left.

27 posted on 03/20/2014 4:55:04 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise; onyx

Enterprise, your post #27 is the most succinct and absolutely true statements about where we are today that I have ever read.

Every Freeper needs to see it. Well done.


28 posted on 03/20/2014 5:02:07 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Thank you exit. Thank you very deeply.


29 posted on 03/20/2014 5:03:44 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

The GOP establishment does not know/realize the frustration out here.. and they do not know or realize how many Tea Party People are out here. They have underestimated our numbers!

The Tea Party is not an organization, so to speak... it is a people’s revolt against what the left and the establishment is doing to us.. to our country.


30 posted on 03/20/2014 5:10:25 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: mazda77
I am starting to think term limits should apply to entire families, and that the family members of current and former politicians should be excluded from working in the lobbying business.
31 posted on 03/20/2014 5:30:06 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

“The GOP establishment does not know/realize the frustration out here.. “

The current situation in a nutshell. The GOPe is tone deaf. One just has to look at the current amnesty push.

They do have a lot of money though from their corporate backers.


32 posted on 03/20/2014 5:43:23 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: ScottinVA

>> They’d much rather nuke each other to dust than take the fight to the dems. <<

True enough. But unlike the cases of Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, Linda McMahon and Ken Buck, where a very weak ‘Pub candidate handed over a U. S. senate seat to the Dhimmis on a silver platter, the Mississippi seat will remain GOP no matter whether Cochran or McDaniel wins the primary.

Still, I think McDaniel’s equivocation on post-Katrina federal aid to the MS Gulf Coast will probably tilt the scales in Cochran’s favor.


33 posted on 03/20/2014 6:26:26 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: grimalkin

Hey establishment; we might be outspent, but we will not be out worked!


34 posted on 03/20/2014 6:29:43 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

>> I am starting to think term limits should apply to entire families <<

Greatest idea of the year! Maybe even the greatest idea (so far, at least) of the 21st century!


35 posted on 03/20/2014 6:30:17 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I am starting to think term limits should apply to entire families

Hear hear! The good citizens of Valley Ranch and Coppell did that by term-limiting Bennett Ratliff in the primary a few weeks ago.

It's a long march against incumbency, but it's good to enjoy the occasional victory.

36 posted on 03/20/2014 6:41:26 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: Enterprise
B T T T ! ! ! ©

37 posted on 03/20/2014 8:02:53 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: WKB; Black Agnes; houeto

I’m so sorry I EVER liked Haley Barbour.
Now I can’t stand the fat THUG.


38 posted on 03/20/2014 8:04:50 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Dittos


39 posted on 03/20/2014 8:29:48 AM PDT by WKB
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To: grimalkin

Thad Cochran has got my last vote. If he wins this I am sitting home in November. Both him and Nunnelee can kiss my kiss.


40 posted on 03/20/2014 8:31:53 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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