Posted on 06/25/2014 7:35:18 PM PDT by xzins
Chris McDaniel, onthe blatantly unethical and illegal tactics employed by Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour in the Mississippi GOP runoff Tuesday…
“McDaniel: I am a two-term state senator, I have fought for this party my entire life, I’ve given money…I’ve done everything they’ve asked me to do– and last night, they pulled over 35,000 Democrats into a Republican primary to defeat me…we feel betrayed.
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Hannity: Do you foresee any circumstance under which you would support this guy? Because I don’t think I could do it.
McDaniel: I prayed about it last night…my core principle is gonna have a hard time even looking at politics again.
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Hannity: You sound like you got punched in the gut. You sound like you’ve been betrayed.
McDaniel: Sean, I was…I have fought for these people. These are my colleagues. They are my friends…I don’t understand!
But Ted Cruz has bigger fish to fry… “
“I certainly congratulate my colleague, Thad,” Cruz said on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, pointing out that the Republican establishment poured millions into the Mississippi race and only won by a thin margin. Cruz reminded the hosts that he did not endorse a candidate in the Mississippi primary, as he promised to stay out of incumbent Senate races.
As does Rand… “
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential contender, declined to support tea party critics of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s efforts to mobilize non-GOP voters to win the Republican nomination.
“I’m for more people voting, not less people voting,” Paul told reporters Wednesday.
Keep fighting, Chris, for all the people who worked so hard for your campaign, for the voters who made you the winner of the REPUBLICAN nomination if not the Democrat version, for God and your family and America’s future, keep fighting!
Run against Thad as an independent. Anywhere the GOPe plays like this...scorch the earth. If they learn a lesson great, if not a new party will be rising.
....and Ted ain't looking too swift either....
you can’t possibly be serious…...
I agree with what you just wrote.
Write-in or independent.
In any case, there should be push back.
Inherited.
I don’t think he’s very smart, and he knows it, so he allows himself to be over handled by consultants.
All of the politicians have become pathetic! Count the GOPe and all of the demon-crats in that equation. The time for term limits has long been overdue...........
Ted I love you but this response by you absolutely sucks. Congratulate Cochran for what? He is a career politician that barely won. Pathetic. A statesman would not congratulate him but use it as an opportunity to state how much strength the Tea Party has gained and what it bodes for future elections etc and speak about the larger picture beyond this one election.
As upset as I was about the election result the fact is that even with Dem and Pub tricks and the RNC machinery a career politician barely won by the skin of his teeth in Mississippi. The Tea Party is making progress and on the move. That's the message. The RINOs are not at all comforted by those results let me tell you.
Every conservative in the country was betrayed.
not term limits (that would empower staffers, bureaucrats, lobbyists even more)
Virtual congress.
www.icongressnow.com
McDaniel needs to sue, get this all out in the open and, if he cannot get justice, run third party.
This has angered me like nothing I can remember. They ruined one of their upcoming leaders. It's one thing to beat someone, CEW, but it's another to have your own party paint you as a KKK wizard in waiting.
The NYT just used that to blast McDaniel as a racist. What the GOP'E did was beyond unethical; it was treacherous.
Indeed you were, McDaniel.
I’m shocked by this, but I shouldn’t be
I didn’t love that Cruz comment either, but look what he did. “I certainly congratulate” - means oh yes, of course, I have to say I congratulate him -
And then Cruz went on to point out that he barely won after spending millions in the final weeks. It was daminng with faint praise.
Rand’s a stopped clock and a fool. Doesn’t he know the history of democracy? Is he pulling for liberty or a near-future tyranny?
I hope you are right. One thing for certain, the GOPe’s conduct in this race destroys that old saying about voting for the most conservative candidate that can win. Time to sacrifice some seats and focus on the war.
Man, I feel bad for Chris. He was totally cheated here. Its worse than Miller in 2010 by an order of magnitude. I’ll pray for him tonight. And then work my butt off to see Thad defeated by any means necessary
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