Posted on 06/30/2014 4:38:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran’s successful game plan, which drove his run-off victory over Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel for Mississippi’s Republican Senate nomination, was unconventional.
But most incredible was the success of this game plan – to reach out to liberal black churches and get Democrat black voters to turn out and vote for Cochran – despite being executed in broad daylight.
Soon after Cochran lost to McDaniel in the primary, necessitating a run-off because McDaniel fell short of getting 50 percent of the vote, papers reported the intent of Cochran’s team to turn out black Democrats to overcome the thin margin by which Cochran lost.
McDaniel knew exactly what to expect. The Cochran campaign told him. Yet he remained a spectator through it all. His counter strategy was no counter strategy and just continue what he was already doing. Appealing just to Mississippi’s conservative white electorate.
Sitting in the White House today is the most left-wing president in the nation’s history, elected twice without winning the white vote. I have written about the demographic changes taking place in the country and the need for Republicans to talk about limited government and traditional values to non-white Americans.
If this is true about the nation as a whole, it certainly is true in a state like Mississippi whose black population, at 40 percent of the state, is the largest in the nation. Half this black population is poor.
Cochran’s forces dumped money into liberal black churches, communicating that he is their champion because of the government pork he’ll continue to bring into the state.
But a news flash for McDaniel, which he should know, having served as a state senator, is that not all blacks are liberals. In Mississippi’s huge black population are many conservative black pastors who want freedom for their flocks. They know that black poverty is not about government money.
A few of these conservative black pastors in Mississippi are part of the national pastor network of my organization, CURE.
Former NFL star Brett Favre made an ad for Cochran in which he talked about Cochran getting “…critical funding for our schools.”
But in the latest Quality Counts report from the publication Education Week, Mississippi is rated 51st in the nation, among 50 states and Washington, DC, in K-12 student achievement.
The report continues, as reported in Mississippi Business Journal, that “Mississippi ranked among the lowest 10 states in providing young people a chance for success in life, financing schools and improving teaching.”
If the success of Mississippi’s schools was about “critical” funding from the federal government, why are they the worst in the nation?
The main victims of Mississippi’s dismal schools are black children.
In a Pew Research survey of last October, 25 percent of blacks expressed favorability toward the Tea Party, just 6 points less than whites.
But the McDaniel campaign seemed clueless that there were potential allies in Mississippi’s huge black population to counter Cochran’s liberal assault.
It is pathetic that some commentators are actually writing that Cochran’s government plantation appeal to blacks shows how Republicans can reach this community.
In a scene early in the Oscar-winning film Patton, General Patton, who was sent to take command of the demoralized American troops in North Africa in the early days of World War II, is shown looking through field glasses, watching a tank battle which would become America’s first victory in North Africa. He studied the tactics of his adversary German commander Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. As he watched, Patton bellowed out “ Rommel, you magnificent b------, I read your book!”
Thad Cochran laid it out for McDaniel – he gave him his book - but McDaniel chose not to read it.
There are plenty of black conservatives who understand that big government politicians – Democrats or Republicans – hurt their communities. They just need Republican candidates to recognize they exist.
“Cochran’s forces dumped money into liberal black churches, communicating that he is their champion because of the government pork he’ll continue to bring into the state.”
Star Parker ignores this crucial fact, McDaniel did not have the money to buy votes as did Cochran and the Republican establishment.
Where was the mega-hurl alert?
Cockroach won because he, the GOP elites, and the Democrats CHEATED! PERIOD!
Star is wrong here. McDaniel courted the base.
Cochran ran to the enemy (politically).
He is now known by his friends.
I don’t think that McDaniel could have gotten black votes, period. The whole Dem/Cochran approach to the blacks was based on the idea that Cochran would give them more “free stuff” - more food stamps, more welfare, huge amounts of money to the dysfunctional “historically black colleges,” etc. It was large-scale institutional bribery, conducted through the usual culprits: the black churches.
However, if the Cochran/Dem alliance openly announced this in advance, McDaniel should have prepared a counter-assault. I don’t know about MS politics, but he was a two-term state senator, so surely he would have known it and could have come up with some kind of strategy. Even, for example, publicizing the Dem/Cochran plot among GOP voters might have persuaded a sizeable number of those who had voted for Cochran originally to vote for McDaniel in the run-off.
I generally like Star but this is ridiculous. There is no way blacks would ever have voted for him. They voted for Thad because they know he’s not conservative.
People that say we need to court blacks should know that it will never work unless you’re handing out freebies.
TN 9th has a white Jew Dem socialist incumbent. GOP Tea Party backed Charlotte Bergmann is making her 3rd run to unseat him, she is a real smart Black conservative business woman. Yet she pulls only the white votes. Last election cohen got 80% of the vote to her 20%.
They prefer the PERKS, and freebies slave chains to Freedom.
But a news flash for McDaniel, which he should know, having served as a state senator, is that not all blacks are liberals. In Mississippi’s huge black population are many conservative black pastors who want freedom for their flocks. They know that black poverty is not about government money.
Yes, too true - a black conservative (or even a mainstream Republican!) is no longer considered black by the rest of the Democrat herd.
He blew it by ignoring folks who always vote for the rat candidates?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174067/posts
So far, there are many reports about shady outreach to Democratic voters supposedly undertaken by Cochran and his allies, particularly done by relatives of former Gov. Haley Barbour.
For example, The Daily Caller reported that Henry Barbour, the head of the Mississippi Conservatives PAC and the nephew of Haley Barbour, paid Democratic operative Mitzi Bickers “to make paid calls to potential Cochran supporters.” Those calls may have spurred many loyal Democrats to cast invalid votes.
In the search for improper votes, GOP officials who are affiliated with Cochran’s campaign are trying to block McDaniel’s search for invalidated votes that are recorded in the poll books, Fritsch said.
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However, 19,000 absentee voters cast ballots in the GOP run-off, and many of those votes may be improper, say McDaniel’s allies.
It was a cold, calculated move to use black Democrats who certainly won’t be voting for Thad in November.
Okay, it’s done and the GOPe and all the so-called conservative pundits on TV (yes, even pervasively on Fox) are quite happy in pontificating about the weakness of National Tea Party organizations while completely ignoring the underhanded duplicity of conscripting their enemy to defeat one of their own - at least one who they profess to want under their big tent.
What the GOPe has done is to earn the enmity of solidly conservative grass roots Americans who have become increasingly aware that the GOPe is nothing more than a second-tier Democrat enclave.
The GOPe had damned well better be right about their crazy idea Hispanics will vote for them ‘if only’ they implement AMNESTY, because they sure as heck aren’t going to get another vote from me. And, that starts right here in Georgia in the runoff race for Senator in July.
Sorry, Star-Baby, we’re not done yet.
First, we have the lawsuit.
Second, if Cockran still survives, then we vote DEMOCRAT in November, and give up this Senate seat. Not doing that will mean this DESPICABLE method will be done to us over and over again...and that WILL NOT be tolerated.
I think all this is water under the bridge, what conservatives in Mississippi need to focus their energy on now is closing the primary voting.
If conservatives don’t close the primary system there, this will happen again and again going forward.
A Parker proved once again it is all about race.
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