Posted on 03/20/2014 2:54:47 AM PDT by grimalkin
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. The state’s former governor Haley Barbour’s establishment political machine is in full swing running defense for incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran is facing the fight of his political life from surging primary challenger two-term state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
“The battle lines are clearly drawn in this race,” FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said in an emailed statement to Breitbart News. “This is Cochran and his band of super lobbyists vs. Chris McDaniel and the people of Mississippi. The Barbours don't represent Mississippians, they represent their lobbying client lists.”
Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer told Breitbart News that Team Barbour is no match for the grassroots conservative movement already supporting McDaniel. “You can involve the entire Barbour family and all of their trusted ones on the payroll, but they will never have the strength of the grassroots,” Kremer said. “This mentality and the arrogance exhibited only emboldens the grassroots. We will not be intimidated, nor will we back down. This seat belongs to the people and not Senator Cochran or the Barbour family.”
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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.
——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
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.
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!
Barbour was always the darling of liberal Sunday talk shows... that should have given us a hint...
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.
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.
Thank you exit. Thank you very deeply.
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.
“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.
>> 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.
Hey establishment; we might be outspent, but we will not be out worked!
>> 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!
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.
I’m so sorry I EVER liked Haley Barbour.
Now I can’t stand the fat THUG.
Dittos
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.
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