Grab a pen, a pair of scissors and some tape.
Take one of those flyers and alter it so it looks like this:
Who says freepers aren't green?
This is how to RECYCLE.
Posted on 06/27/2014 6:30:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
How far did the establishment GOP forces backing Senator Thad Cochran go in Mississippi this week? Too far, and their tactics are likely to leave permanent scars in a civil war with Tea Party forces that are out of all proportion to the importance the establishment placed on saving one 76-year-old senator’s ability to please Washington’s K Street lobbying interests.
“This is a win for the establishment, but it’s a win with an asterisk, because it’s so tainted that it might be one of those things where they’re going to be sorry they ever won the runoff in Mississippi,” Craig Shirley, a political consultant and the author of two respected biographies of Ronald Reagan, told Yahoo News this week.
The key to Cochran’s surprising victory was a disproportionately high turnout in precincts with high Democratic registration. Mississippi law permits voters to cross party lines in primaries, but it prohibits members of one party who voted in their party’s primary to participate in a runoff of the other party. It also bars them from voting in the runoff unless they intend to support the resulting nominee in the November election — an unenforceable requirement, but one that showed that the intent of the election law was, in this case, to let Republicans determine their own nominee.
The tactics used to convince black Democrats to vote for Cochran included the same kind of race-baiting that Republicans have complained about for decades. “The Tea Party Intends To Prevent Blacks From Voting on Tuesday” was the headline on a flier that indefatigable journalist Charles Johnson (twitter #chuckcjohnson) discovered had been distributed in heavily black precincts before the June 23 vote. Along with that unfounded incendiary message was a list of issue comparisons between Cochran and Chris McDaniel. Cochran was credited with such unconservative positions as support for federal pork projects and food-stamp funding. The flier carried no identification as to who produced it, a violation of federal law.
Curiously, another flier put out by the pro-Cochran Mississippi Conservatives PAC last week described Cochran’s positions in nearly identical language as the anonymous flier and even carried an identical photo of the senator. The slogan that Thad Cochran “Supports All Mississippians” is the same in both fliers.
“I don’t know who put it out,” former governor Haley Barbour, who raised boatloads of money for the Mississippi Conservatives PAC, told my colleague Eliana Johnson. “I can’t imagine the Cochran campaign did that.”
But the Mississippi Conservatives PAC did engage in its own questionable tactics. A mysterious robo-call went out to thousands of Democratic households just before the June 23 vote. The female narrator’s message was as follows: “By not voting, you are saying ‘take away all of my government programs, such as food stamps, early breakfast and lunch programs, millions of dollars to our black universities . . . everything we and our families depend on that comes from Washington will be cut.”
As the Washington Examiner reported: “It turns out that former Republican Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s pro-Cochran Super PAC, Mississippi Conservatives, shelled out $44,000 for an offensive robo-call urging black Democrat voters to vote for Thad Cochran in the Republican primary Tuesday.”
There has been much speculation about the offensive robo-call, which trashes the Tea Party for “their disrespectful treatment of the first African American president.” The female narrator claimed that Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel would cause “even more problems for President Obama.”
As I said, the wounds from all of this are likely to be long lasting.
“This just threw gasoline onto the flames of the civil war,” Richard Viguerie, the author of Takeover: The 100 Year War for the GOP’s Soul, told reporters this week. “What happened yesterday in Mississippi will resonate for years to come. It will become the battle cry, just like the Alamo. We will remember Mississippi.”
They’ve even lost Wallbanger!
He actually said he would not vote for Thad, much to the dismay of the great triangulator Dick Morris.
For the GOPe to lose a shill like Wallbanger indicates to me that they have really stepped in it...
Both parties are despicable.
The Founders never wanted political parties for the reason that political parties tend to be corrupt.
We need to clean house.
If McDaniel does not win a new election, then we will need to foster a write in campaign or in the alternative to support his opponent who is a pro-life, pro-gun candidate who voted against Obamacare.
However if we support him we have to ensure that everyone knows that we support him because of his efforts as a Congressman to go against the grain and not because we accept his views on other subjects.
I would suggest we start an organization such as "Reagan Republicans for Travis Childers."
Perhaps he would be more beholden to us peasants if he knew the only reason he won was because of "Reagan Republicans."
Either way we must make damn sure that Thad Cochran is not re-elected and is never again elected to anything. Thad Cochran is a low life scum sucking power hungry pig.
I could think of some other words, but the mods would pull my post.
John Fund used to be as establishment as it got.
“REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!” has a nice ring to it.
I’ll be saying that to each “send funds” request I receive from “the GOP establishment”.
Of course, conservatives STILL need to pick strong challengers who can win. And McDaniels DID make mistakes.
Strong challengers will let us whittle away the power of big-spenders like Cochran and — eventually — push them out.
I don’t see how electing Democrats could encourage strong conservative candidates to disrupt their lives and step forward.
I don’t think 2 wrongs make a right - or fix what just happened.
This old fart isn’t going to make it 6 more years - his mind is going.
Keep your powder dry - remember Mississippi and make sure ALL the TRUE conservatives on the Hill know your anger and make them commit to candidates.
To hell with this “I won’t campaign against a GOP incumbent in a primary (or run-off) bs.
His staff can keep him active long after his brain is flat lined. His staff is owned lock stock and barrel by the McConnell crony capitalism crowd.
I think it is coming up to the time when the Tea Party must abandon the GOP and look to infiltrating the other side.
It may be time to go into these primaries and run "Reagan Democrats" (i.e., Patriotic Middle Class people) and getting our people in that way.
Surely both parties hate the Tea Party and all that we stand for, i.e, limited constitutional government), so why put all our eggs in one basket?
The Republican party is not our political savior. We are going to have to save this Republic on our own.
Start putting Reagan Republicans in the Democrat primaries. A lot of Republicans are in such red districts that they don't even have democrat opponents. And then they vote for the crony capitalist programs like Boehner and McConnell lackies.
It is time to sever the Tea Party ties to the Republican party. They don't want us, so let's give them what they want.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/black-democrats-thad-cochran-_n_5504751.html
What if it was just a Demorat strategy, run by Demorats with no knowledge by Rino's or Chochran?
If there were participation by RINO's and/or Chochran, I can see feeling the same way as I did before; but if it was not?
Grab a pen, a pair of scissors and some tape.
Take one of those flyers and alter it so it looks like this:
Who says freepers aren't green?
This is how to RECYCLE.
Here's the context, and the problem. Democrats determined the Republican nominee, over and above the fact that a majority of Republicans supported McDaniel. - That's just wrong, and it's a foreshadowing of the early presidential primaries.
The only legal matter to be determined is what percentage of registered Democrats voting for Cochran in the run-off voted in the Democrat primary. As of last night, McDaniel said they had already found over a thousand. This is not an insignificant number, but the argument over tactics and the outrage clouds this issue.
Democrats should not be picking the nominees of the Republican party.
You make reasoned arguments.
I take it all back. After reading the HP article again; it does say a “conservative PAC” worked with the Demorats.
I take back my take back! I am confused as to what the article means by a “conservative PAC” when the label is a front to liberal churches!
Semantics.
It’s the proper name of a PAC that Barbour heavily funds.
EVERYONE wants to hold the “conservative” mantle, so they call themselves the “conservative” this and the “conservative” that and it fools enough people.
In this case they helped foot the bill to get out the black vote for Cochran.
Please elucidate.
The article states that, "The newly-formed PAC shares an address and chief financial officer with the church, raising questions about whether the church is illegally participating in the campaign." I'm assuming that it is an address to a liberal church. I am no freind of Barbour, but do you have a citation that implicatres him with this PAC? Because it is this PAC that got the Demorats to vote.
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Really?? What were they? I thought he waged a very uplifting and inspirational campaign!
I thought you were speaking about this:
“Mississippi Conservatives PAC did engage in its own questionable tactics”
Here's another thing, conservatives are actually one of the largest voting blocs in America. Social conservatives make up a large percentage of that conservative voting bloc, and a huge number of those are the Reagan Democrats --> Republicans.
It has long been said that Black Christians and Hispanic Christians, large proportions of those blocs, have more in line with the values of social conservatives than they do with progressive liberals. They believe in God, they desire strong families, and they want jobs. Many of them are pro-life.
It would be interesting to see what happened when old blue-collar Reagan democrats reunited with values concerned Christian democrats. Something might just get started.
That would be a large coalition.
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