Posted on 07/01/2014 8:11:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Breitbart, a little casual racial demagoguery towards Chris McDaniel’s tea-party base from ol’ Maverick.
“Obviously, I claim credit for [Cochran's victory], but, actually, the reason why he won was that he had a really excellent get-out-the-vote campaign,” McCain told The Arizona Republic. “There are some people who are complaining that African-American voters voted. I thought one of the major priorities of the Republican Party was to get all minority and ethnic voters out to vote for Republicans.”…
McCain has not yet announced whether he will seek a sixth Senate term in 2016. But McCain has acknowledged that he would likely attract a tea-party-style primary opponent, and says he will be ready to rumble if it happens.
“The key to it is you’d better pay attention, you’d better work hard, you’d better organize,” McCain said. “And you’d better understand that there is a strong anti-Washington/anti-incumbency sentiment out there, which is justified, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. If I run again, I know what I’m going to be up against and I know that it’s going to be a long, hard slog. But I enjoy campaigning. I love it. And I love traveling around the state.”
Is that what McDaniel fans are upset about, that black voters turned out? Or are they upset that Democrats, some of them black and energized by sleazy race-oriented dirty tricks against McDaniel, proved decisive in a Republican primary, ensuring that the party’s nomination went to a guy who twice won fewer votes from members of that party than his rival did? The fact that McCain would stoop to this sort of stupid MSNBC-ish lowest-common-denominator troll to dismiss conservative anger is telling. We just watched a network of cronies prop up a feeble old man who’s been in Congress for 40 years by recruiting liberals to tilt a GOP election, and Maverick’s big comeback is “why don’t you want blacks to vote?” We once nominated this guy for president. Why?
If you’re thinking ahead to 2016 and wondering whether he can duplicate what Cochran pulled off, the answer is … probably not. Arizona’s primaries are semi-closed, meaning that you can vote in the Republican election if you’re a registered Republican or unaffiliated. Registered Dems are out. If McCain wants to pull a Thad against some primary challenger, he’ll have to find the votes among indies. It could be, though, that his macro strategy is much the same — i.e. if he ends up falling behind before the primary, he might try to pitch indies on the idea that tea partiers must be stopped at all costs and therefore it’s in their interest to turn out for the incumbent. His problem potentially is that if Democrats nominate a strong candidate to challenge him, all left-leaning indies will be pulling for McCain to lose in the primary so that they can face the untested non-incumbent in the general election. In Mississippi, where the Republican primary inevitably decides who the state’s next senator will be, you don’t have that worry so lefties could vote strategically. Besides, if there’s any battle plan that Maverick’s going to follow, it’s more likely to be his pal Lindsey’s than Cochran’s. Graham trounced the tea party in a red state by using all the levers of incumbency; Cochran campaigned listlessly until the very end and nearly lost. If McCain ends up in a situation more like the latter than the former, something will have gone very wrong for him before 2016.
“That” should be “then”.
Darned computers, always making mistakes.
Given his history of contempt for conservatives, I am leaning toward believing McCain is he so stupid he thinks we are that stupid.
Stupid people like McCain often believe themselves to be the smartest guy in the room.
Don’t you mean Full MENTAL Jackass?
Or is he so stupid he thinks we are that stupid?
Yes
FOOL MENTAL JACKASS.
Members of the ‘green party’ .
“The key to it is you’d better pay attention, you’d better work hard, you’d better organize,” McCain said. “And you’d better understand that there is a strong anti-Washington/anti-incumbency sentiment out there, which is justified, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. If I run again, I know what I’m going to be up against and I know that it’s going to be a long, hard slog. But I enjoy campaigning. I love it. And I love traveling around the state.”
Nothing like an old political hack to make zero sense, talking out of both sides of his drooling pie hole.
I seriously hope he runs, I want to see him go down in a crushing defeat. Did I just say that out loud?! Such a vile power hungry freak.
What a doofus.
Buying votes from black ministers - and handing out ‘walking around’ money is NOT quite what we had in mind...
Not THAT stupid, he knows what he's saying is disingenuous BS. As you noted, what's extra infuriating about the statement is that he thinks we're stupid enough to buy that.
This took a little longer to ‘unfold’ than I thought.
I kind of figured some LIB would be accusing the R’s of using D tactics in getting out the vote.
I know McShame is senile and idiotic, but I really didn’t think he would be the one to make this statement.
1. Almost makes one think that he was asked a ‘loaded question’ and it got ‘worked’ around until it looked damning.
2. Or MAYBE, just MAYBE he really is this stupid.
(On second thought, I will go with my ‘reasoning’ #2 Alex.)
Maybe McCain doesn’t know the difference between a primary and a general election. If he thinks that blacks will vote for Cochran in the general election, he is a fool.
Everybody knows they aren’t voting Republican in the general election, including McKeating.
Juan’s just jealous that Democrats found a stooge they liked better than him.
Juan’s just jealous that Democrats found a stooge they liked better than him.
... in the GOP runoff. To people who will NEVER vote for the Republican in the General.
(I’d add)
What are these folks going to say when the exit polls from the General election come back and show that all the Black voters for Cochrane in the primaries went home to Childers?
Assuming McDaniels doesn’t get his new election, that is ...
Sweet Jesus, this man is dumb.
I have a hard time believing it. It's amazing, to me at least, that politicians would be this out of touch with their mainstream. Smacks of the people saying, "Hey! The Emporer is nekkid!" ... and the pol's only option is denial: "Nope, he's not. You're completely wrong. Are you going to believe me, or your lyin' eyes?"
But, to fall back on my own premise that all political shenanigans are motivated by 1) money 2) sex 3) stupidity or 4) some combination thereof ..... you're right. McCain is just stupid.
Yes, he is that stupid. He was 894th in his graduating class of 899 at the United Staes Naval Academy in 1958.
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