Posted on 04/02/2014 5:01:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
One of the nation's top political forecasters declared Tuesday that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is in "deep trouble" against conservative challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel in this year's Mississippi GOP senate primary on June 3.
Stuart Rothenberg wrote in Roll Call that McDaniel actually has "the best chance of any anti-establishment Senate hopeful to knock off an incumbent, and the defeat of six-term Senate veteran Thad Cochran would send shock waves through both the national media and the Republican Party."
"Cochran, 76, is in trouble – in deep trouble – primarily because of changes in the Republican Party," Rothenberg declared. "But it’s also true that the senator, and his campaign, didn’t start his re-election effort where they needed to be."
On at least two separate occassions, Cochran, who reportedly wanted to retire but was convinced to run for another term so he could potentially chair the Senate's Appropriations Committee, has admitted that he was unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement. Rothenberg reported that Cochran, who has not had a competitive primary battle, is "rusty," "has no real organization," and has "lost touch over the years."
Rothenberg, who runs the influential and nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, also wrote that when Cochran was first elected to Congress, "members were expected to 'bring home the bacon' to their districts or states like Southern Democrats did." That is exactly what Cochran has done, as he has become known as one of Washington's top appropriators who has worked across the aisle for more government spending even if that meant racking up more debt for the country.
Breitbart News has reported that "Cochran has voted on at least 11 occasions to raise the debt ceiling by at least $7.7 trillion over the past 24 years"
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The first RINO of the season.
Some of these GOPe candidates will trash good Americans (Tea Party people) to win a primary then find themselves without a sufficient base of support in the November election. They are greatly weakening their support as the insult conservative voters year after year while accomplishing nothing positive.
I can appreciate that a Senator or Representative sits in his office and receives an endless string of requests for support on votes and money for this and that. That is the nature of their job. However, there is no excuse for their bile and insults directed toward the citizens who have to pay for their generosity. They force me to give them my money, they cannot have my vote.
Retire this RINO bum. Six terms...good grief.
“...would send shock waves through both the national media ...”
Wrong.
The national media would not be shocked. They would actually celebrate the “divisive nature of the Tea Party” and “the civil war among the Republicans, currently raging out of control” and “the current display of a party without leadership” that “threatens to extinguish any GOP effort to retake the Senate”.
MSNBCABCCBSCNNHLN would discuss little else before the 2014 elections.
Well, CNN might be hard pressed to give up their coverage of the MH370 disappearance...
tHAd enough ping
He is..he’s below 50%...
That did it. McConnell supposedly begged Cochran to run, promised him all the $$ he would need. Thad said yes...stupidly so, I trust.
No, it’s open season on “six-term incumbents”
Drain the swamp, baby.
ping
GREAT NEWS!
I have McDaniel yard signs if anyone lives in my area!
They’re going fast!
Amen brother. Lord knows that swamp in DC has a ton of donkeys and rinos that need to be sent packing.
Washingtonians (doesn't matter if there's a D or an R after their names) think they're the Morlocks, and flyover country is the Eloi.
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