Posted on 06/26/2014 7:53:51 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Mitch McConnell, the NRSC and the Chamber of Commerce went all in for moderate Thad Cochran in Mississippi (57% conservative rating with Heritage Action):
Back in Washington, Cochran’s most important allies resolved to muffle their anxiety and stick with him for another three weeks. The Chamber of Commerce polled the race, concluded the senator had a difficult but viable path to victory; the group began brainstorming inventive ways to make a splash in the state, culminating with a sensational commercial starring NFL legend Brett Favre. National Republican Senatorial Committee political director Ward Baker, confronted with Beltway pessimism about Cochran’s chances, repeatedly told Republicans in D.C.: “We don’t leave our people on the field.”
But it took 35K Democrats to push him past grassroots challenger Chris McDaniel:
Surprisingly, more votes were cast in the runoff than in the June 3 primary. McDaniel increased his vote from 155,000 on June 3 to 184,600 last night. But the 25-35,000 Dems who crossed over to vote for Cochran gave him the extra margin to surpass his opponent.
This is more reason for Chris McDaniel to run as a write-in candidate in the general election.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Thanks for the link. I sent a little note.
In hope that McDaniel runs as an independent write in candidate.
It's time for an opposition party.
More than any other election outcome coming up in November, my number-one hope and desire is that disgusting bastard Cochran loses.
For a GOP-er to actually court and scare up black Dem votes by saying Thad will “protect Obama” and “protect welfare” from “racist” tea-partiers, is as low as it gets. This, from a bloomin’ Republican! Damn these scumbags to the darkest and hottest corners of hell. These people are every bit an enemy as the marxist Dems.
I disagree about McDaniel needing to be “graceful” toward Cochran. By playing nice, McDaniel will damage his own image of fighting for his constituents - in this case, Republican voters in a putatively republican primary.
This primary shows a troubling symptom of the disease being promulgated by the GOPe.
A write-in candidacy would be meaningless. Even if he received enough votes to win, the election laws in MS allow write-ins only if one of the previous nominees died or withdrew.
Makes it even better.
Sometimes the ONLY way to get somebody’s attention is to hit over the head with a 2 X 4.
Rove and McCain are indeed smiling today. They will smile even more if McDaniel loses a suit or if Cochran is re-elected.
The ONLY way to wipe that smile off their damn faces is to teach them consequences have actions, vote for the Dem and make them loose this seat.
THAT sends a message.
Agenda-driven socialists unite! (they’re getting nervous ALERT!)
Ballot box BUMP! (more ballot boxes ahead)
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
I’m not voting for a rat.
Boss Hog Barbour should have switched parties years ago. The draft-dodging, pudgy old democrat wannabe. He makes me sick.
Put on the appearance of being a conservative when he’s nothing in the world but a big government Washington insider.
My St. Bernard when he’s hungry is more conservative than Boss Hog and Porky Pig Rove.
There is NO reason to be graceful to thugs like McCain, Rove and Barbour.
They will treat McDaniel with the same hostility they treated Palin, Cruz, etc. They are every bit as elitist and arrogant and liberal as their Democrat counterparts.
Just remember who started “Operation Chaos”...
That pretty much says it. The corruption unites them.
I would have felt better if Cochran had retired and not run for reelection. He’s been in Washington too long and his age is beginning to show. I think if the Miss. Republicans want to control their own destiny, they need to change the rules and make their primary closed to all but Registered Republicans.
The nitwits in the GOP didn't just "let this happen," they enticed Democrats to vote "illegally" so the establishment GOP guy would win the primary.
“We don’t leave our people on the field.”
(1) The republican party did that to republican voters.
(2) I don’t like this clown comparing thad Cochran to one of our military personnel being left in the battle field. Thad is not worthy.
Shouldn’t this be a rather simple matter to investigate? Couldn’t the McDaniel people request a list of all Democrats who voted in the Primary, and compare it with a list of all Democrats who voted in the runoff? With a team of volunteers, the 25,000 to 35,000 Democrat voters who voted in the runoff could be checked in just a couple of days.
Let’s see if they are still smiling after the general elections in November.
There could be some surprises coming in MS and KY.
I guess we should put you down as undecided on Barbour.
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