Posted on 06/26/2014 1:28:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Especially in Mississippi, where there's a lot more to Cochrane's narrow win than their "everyone-hates-the-Tea-Party" narrative.
You know how the news media fearlessly holds our elected officials accountable? Yeah, me neither. They'd like you to think they do that, but they're pretty excited this morning about the fact that incumbent members of Congress like Democrat Charlie Rangel in the House and big-spending Republican Thad Cochrane in the Senate survived their primary races.
This is especially true in the case of Cochrane, who was being challenged to Tea Party-backed Chris McDaniel. McDaniel had finished first in the original primary vote, but since no one won a majority in the primary it required a run-off - and Cochrane narrowly won with the help of the Republican establishment and no small number of Demcorats as well.
Why would Democrats help a Republican incumbent? Well this is the part the media won't tell you.
Mississippi is a deep red state, and everyone in both parties knows that the Republican primary winner will almost certainly win the November election. So it's in the interests of Democrats to back the Republican who likes to spend taxpayer money and bring home the bacon to his state. Since 1972 in Mississippi, that has been Thad Cochrane.
In order to ensure that the cash would keep flowing from Washington to Mississippi, the GOP establishment teamed up with inner-city pastors who normally encourage their members to vote Democrat. Not only that, but they played on the ignorance of low-information voters. One voter who was interviewed said he voted for Cochrane because he thought McDaniel was going to cut food stamps. Another said he thought McDaniel would refuse to accept school funding even if every other state accepted it. (That's not even within a U.S. senator's power to decide!)
And the cities were littered with campaign material that claimed "the Tea Party" (and by implied connection, McDaniel) was plotting to prevent black people from voting.
This is how the establishment keeps its favored politicians in office. It plays on the ignorance of low-information voters, and is completely shameless about how it does so. You think the Republican Party is the pro-business party, but Republican strategists were more than happy to make black voters fearful of McDaniel because of his ties to business. Whatever it takes to win, to maintain power, and to keep the m oney flowing.
So throughout today, when you hear from the media that voters "rejected the Tea Party," keep in mind the parts of the story they're not telling you.
If Cockroach loses I hope it will be to McDaniels who win a write-in. That will tell the establishment that the Tea Party is not going away.
Not this time, re the sulking. It’s not sulking, it’s a cold embittered anger.
senator wickers office confirmed that the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent money on the robo-calls, they denied doing it to democrats which is probably true, they just did it in mostly in heavily democrat counties and apparently different messages were used in areas that weren’t so heavily democrat. senator wickers staff also said there was nothing wrong with this and that senator wicker supported senator Cochran. I started the conversation saying I believed senator wicker should have stepped forward and suggested to those who were advocating democrats vote in our primary should cease and desist but she said senator wicker was for it as he was for cochran. I’m sure senator wicker is now ready to start voting for the items bennie thompson’s list, THE BILL for votes received to be paid by the US taxpayers. PORW
The head of Mississippi Conservatives PAC is Henry Barbour. Nephew of Haley.
senator wickers office confirmed that the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent money on the robo-calls, they denied doing it to democrats which is probably true, they just did it in mostly in heavily democrat counties and apparently different messages were used in areas that weren’t so heavily democrat. senator wickers staff also said there was nothing wrong with this and that senator wicker supported senator Cochran. I started the conversation saying I believed senator wicker should have stepped forward and suggested to those who were advocating democrats vote in our primary should cease and desist but she said senator wicker was for it as he was for cochran. I’m sure senator wicker is now ready to start voting for the items bennie thompson’s list, THE BILL for votes received to be paid by the US taxpayers. PORW
Having called McD supporters the Klan, Cochran’s campaign will have to admit they want the vote of ‘Klansmen’ in November.
That’s the position they are in right now.
It’s the problem with nuking your base to win a primary. You then have to convince them to walk over radioactive glass to vote for you.
Not happening in this household.
Dipsh!t can’t even tie a tie properly.
Double windsors went out in the 70s man.
Mr. Herman Cain needs to do a little work on his math.
Mississippi is “deep red” because 80%-90% of white voters support the Republican Party.
When a Republican candidate does something stupid and malicious - like, Thad Cochran suggesting that the Tea Party is racist - getting to 80% might become a huge problem.
If Tea Party voters decide to stay home, or if they decide to stage a write-in protest vote, Thad could get beat.
Also, the Democrat nominee, a white Congressman, is pro-Life and pro-Gun.
In 2010, the Democrat was endorsed by the NRA and by Right to Life.
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