Posted on 05/22/2014 8:32:55 AM PDT by Kenny
After a string of humiliating defeats in Republican primaries this spring, the tea party’s last best hope to oust an incumbent lawmaker is in Mississippi.
At first glance, the deeply conservative state’s Senate primary race seems ripe for an upset. Sen. Thad Cochran has served in Washington for as long as his 41-year-old challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, has been alive. A proud and prolific earmarker when senators were freer to send pork to their states, Cochran personifies the kind of free-spending Beltway broker that grassroots conservative voters have often revolted against.
Senate hopeful Alison L. Grimes (D) suggests McConnell’s net worth “quadrupled” because he voted for pay raises.
Yet McDaniel has failed to put the contest away, even as Tea Party-aligned groups are pouring money into Mississippi to deny Cochran a seventh term. The insurgent has made a series of tactical errors, while Cochran and his establishment allies — well-funded and prepared for combat — have been eviscerating McDaniel on the airwaves.
The race has also been roiled over the past week by a bizarre incident in which a pro-McDaniel blogger was arrested for taking an illicit photo of Cochran’s bedridden wife, Rose, who has dementia and lives in a nursing home.
There are few reliable public polls in Mississippi. Strategists in the state say the race has been close, with Cochran enjoying a slight advantage, although they sensed that McDaniel had been gaining steam before the nursing home episode.
Conservative groups — still searching for their first victory in knocking off an entrenched incumbent this year — are doubling down to prop up McDaniel in the run-up to the June 3 primary.
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It's a long march, and we're just getting started.
vote fraud goes a long way and it’s not just the democrats who are guilty. The republican establishment engaging in vote fraud to retain their ilk in office is a must because they need the Tea Party dead and buried. The reports in the past few days of the incumbents beating the Tea Party challengers in the primaries leaves the establishment proclaiming the death of the Tea Party movement. Since the establishment in DC is controlled by the world oligarchs, it will be impossible for the people to return this country to a Constitutional Republic through a corrupted election system.
And it's good that the article included this about the Republican Party. “The ruling class of the Republican Party has become much more explicit in its attacks on conservatives than they used to be. They’ve designed a better mechanism to keep their power.”
I remember. You cannot get more explicit than this 1964 Rockefeller Republican declaration: "We have to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race." We're all Barry Goldwaters now in the opinion of the ruling class of the Republican Party. Purveyors of hate I recall that Mitt Romney's father George called us Goldwater supporters.
BINGO.
Isn’t that rat Boehner up for re-election? Is the primary season over yet?
I was polled twice by two different polling organizations about this election last night.
Isn’t that rat Boehner up for re-election?
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Yep, all House of Representative members are all up for re-election every two years
assuming they choose to run again.
Suddenly the goal posts have been moved further by the Compost. Everyone knows that the hardest thing in politics is to defeat an incumbent. Tea party candidates have triumphed in primaries to fill open seats, but Wapo conveniently does not count those in the way they count! What a disgusting piece of crap “news”paper.
WaPo especially has declared this year is the last gasp final death of the tea party. They forget it is only a loose knit group and the primaries tgey have lost are only by a few points. The candidates have been outspent with huge amounts of money, withstood an entire political and media system that has tried to destroy them, and running against long time establishment goons.
Another recent poll with McDaniel leading
http://www.scribd.com/doc/225104161/TPPCF-MS-Poll-Surge-Release
Probably candidate sponsored polling for their campaign info and strageties.
That shows some concern on someone’s part, maybe both.
There is no formal tea party—it is a set of values and beliefs. It cannot be destroyed and, in fact, it is and will grow in popularity. Just because there is gov’t oppression of Tea Party-type organizations, resulting in few people who want to be connected to those organizations (due to fear of audits or worse), doesn’t mean those people changed their beliefs. It only makes them less visible. It creates the illusion that the “Tea Party” is dying. It is, in truth, the opposite.
That’s a 30 point move favoring McDaniel from their previous poll six weeks
ago. That represents a major shift even when taking into account the MOE.
Change appears to be on the mind of voters in MS.
Tea Party might be doing better if it actually stood for something.
Harry Reed and others who spread lies/propaganda about the Tea Party have done some damage....Reed and those like him are terrified the United States Constitution will become strong again and Big Government will take a hit....both the Constitution and Big Gov. have been made very visible under the Tea Party discussions........
Boehner won.
They called you because we kept turning them down LOL.
We got polled by 3 on Monday night. Hubby doesn’t do polls so we had to politely decline.
First, in terms of book sales, my publisher, my agent, and others in the conservative publishing community---names you would know---have experienced significant declines in sales since 2011. I thought it might just be my titles, but no, in contacting many of these people, their political/history titles are not doing well. A few have had very good success with novels, but not political novels. Their successes are in futuristic novels or "armageddon" type stories.
Second, in discussing appearances with my film at Tea Party groups around the country, I have found they are either defunct from just two years ago, have had membership fall dramatically, and so on. It doesn't seem to matter the region: I've had the same conversations with people in IL, ID, AR, OH, GA, and so on. One ID guy told me his chapter was simply defunct; one OH guy who led a big chapter said they can scarcely get 20 people out---with one big exception, when they do something on Common Core. When I spoke to them a couple of years ago, they had 100.
Several post-Obama groups that were created apart from, but related to the Tea Party, evaporated.
It is still possible to run a GOOD candidate against a RINO dinosaur, but the "Tea Party" label no longer turns out the voters, even GOP voters.
While my experience could be entirely anecdotal, the story of what the Dayton Tea Party did here locally, and how it screwed up and basically lost its power, is telling and I'll be happy to go over it in a private mail, but not a public thread.
Yeh, laughable! “Words cannot harm me!” Little do the know that the Tea Party is growing every day.
I somehow missed the articles regarding the demise of the Coffee Party.
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