Tea Partiers: Thad Cochran Told Us Fighting Obamacare a 'Lost Cause'

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | April 24, 2014 | Matthew Boyle

[Timber Rattler]

South Mississippi Tea Party chairman John Rhodes is fairly involved in politics. The Tea Party chapter he leads meets twice a month. An active supporter of state Senator Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate primary here, Rhodes has been intimately involved in endorsing candidates in a variety of races over the last few years, and frequently attends Republican events in the region.

But when it comes to the incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, Rhodes said has never even met him.

(snip)

As Cochran campaigns in the first competitive reelection battle he's faced as a senator, local Republicans say they resent the fact that Cochran has been missing in action in the years leading up to the contest.

“He’s been spotted around before,” said Paul Boudreaux, a board member of Rhodes' Tea Party group. “I think I saw him at a Homebuilders Association event around four years ago here. But it’s few and far between.”

When local activists have gotten a glimpse of Cochran, it hasn't always gone that well.

In a video posted late Wednesday, two other prominent Mississippi Tea Party activists said Cocrhan told them in a 2012 meeting at his office in Washington, D.C. that repealing Obamacare was a lost battle. (snip)

Now that Cochran is on the campaign trail, Boudreax and another Republican, who asked not to be named, said the rust – and Cocrhan's age (he's 76) – are showing.

[Timber Rattler]

Not only is Cochran another absentee Senator and defeatist, he's going senile as well.

[Tulane]

Tea party has a real chance here. And they will win general if nominated, so get it done Mississippi.

[Diogenesis]

"ObamaCARE and RomneyCARE are the law and must be obeyed."

[logitech]

ping

[C210N]

With a $3 mil to $1 mil advantage, do I even have to ask which campaign the NRSC is backing?

[Theodore R.]

I actually think Cochran is right on this, but I surely hope McDaniel prevails. I’m afraid though that MS people are now pretty much like the uninformed elsewhere.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If Cochran believes that fighting the biggest push toward Socialism in the past 30 years is a lost battle, then why the Hell is he in Washington?

Is it just to dole out favors to his cronies? Don’t answer that . . . . .

[WKB]

tHAD enough? No tHAD too damn much

[Servant of the Cross]

Oops. You must have posted on the wrong thread. This thread is about the GOP Senate race in Mississippi and McDaniel beating ThadEnough?

Or ... mitty is in your head. Bad.

[Boowhoknew]

This state has a long history of fighting for the lost cause. But the entrenched wealthy were usually on the first train out.Or in Senator Cochran’s case, the first one at the president’s private dinner party a couple of years ago.

[duffee]

Senator Cochran recently attended a fund raiser breakfast hosted for him by John Podesta. The attendees were wealthy democrat, liberal contributors. Who is “conservative” Senator Cochran representing? I support Senator Chris McDaniel.

“Won’t You Come Home Thad Cochran”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k27-HC90dzc