Posted on 07/08/2014 5:57:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
How an obscure Mississippi state senator became the poster boy for all that’s wrong with the right.
There was a conservative NRA- and Right To Life-endorsed candidate in the Mississippi race, one who opposed Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty for illegal immigrants, as well as any similar efforts by President Bush and Obama. Unlike his opponent, he was a veteran who fought the Obama administration’s cuts to the military, including plans to reduce the Navy to a dangerously low level of ships.
He had a history of reducing spending when he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He had co-sponsored anti-Obamacare legislation with Senator Ted Cruz. When his home state last had a liberal Democrat as governor, he worked hard to defeat that governor while his opponent voted in the Democratic primary.
That conservative would be Thad Cochran, whom I walked neighborhoods for years ago, and had the privilege to advise closely in this last election.
Chris McDaniel is now saying the “election was stolen” without providing a shred of evidence. It’s an extraordinarily irresponsible statement by an elected official. On Monday, his lawyer, who was last seen losing to Haley Barbour in a run for governor by almost 60 points, made allegations of voter fraud, again without evidence. This is exactly the sort of “throw it up against the wall and see what sticks” legal approach we Republicans ridiculed Al Gore for in the Florida recount.
Let’s hope any conservative enchantment with loss fades and is replaced with a new passion for governing. And to govern, as many have observed, you must win. So let’s embrace a conservatism that is happy about winning, not angry about losing.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
If the left loves Cochran so much, then he is definitely on the wrong side.
Stuart Stevens - That’s all ya need to know!
Stevens is a democrat posing as a republican. And not a very good one either.
People who get shalacked in elections they should have won should step off the stage and STFU.
In liberal communist speak, when one says there is not a shred of evidence or a smidgen of evidence, it means the evidence is overwhelming...deny, deny, deny.
Benedict Arnold was Washington’s best general, a brave and proven leader and the hero of Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. But none of that mattered when Arnold became a traitor and sided with the British against his fellow Americans. Two centuries later, the name Benedict Arnold is still despised by Americans and British alike. Thad Cochran has sided with Democrats and big government RINOs against the heart and soul of the Republican Party. Damn him.
People who get shalacked in elections they should have won should step off the stage and STFU.
....which is what senile, cheatin’ Thad should have done when shalacked in the first round...
jus’ sayin’
ymmv
Stevens apparently doesn’t believe that criminal corruption, indifference to ordinary voters, and a cozy relationship with the Democrat machine should be of any concern to Republicans. Cochran is bought and paid for and votes the way his well heeled handlers want him to vote. What more could you want?
This senile old fart is as good as it gets in Stuart Stevens, a man in line to be Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee who will do whatever the establishment wants. Republicans in Mississippi need to put a stop to the corruption and throw Cochran out of office.
Ping
This was the architect of the theft trying to divert us
As Rush always says you can always tell who the Uniparty fears by whom they attack. I don’t remember the last time the Uniparty media wing attacked Susan Collins or Lindsey Graham.
“Chris McDaniel is now saying the “election was stolen” without providing a shred of evidence. It’s an extraordinarily irresponsible statement by an elected official.”
“Shred of evidence”? Legal or not, it’s unquestioned that the Democrat voters whose help Cochran begged after the first primary were his margin of victory. Why didn’t he ask for their help the first time, or was he so desperate after McDaniel’s win that political survival trumped whatever party loyalty he still possessed? How can he now say he’s the choice of Republican voters when it’s the Dem voters who thwarted the will of his own party?
And as far as that “extraordinarily irresponsible statement by an elected official” charge, what do you call someone who created those incredibly offensive robo-calls accusing McDaniel and his supporters of racism, of blocking black voters, turning back the clock, etc.? And now how can he turn to those very people he slandered and say “join us” without sounding like the ethically-challenged political hack he has in fact become?
Thanks to the willing participation of Cochran Republicans have no choice this November. McDaniel should stay home and let Thad get his victory from his Democrat supporters. After all, he owes them so much now...
NRA endorsements aren’t worth much today. Here is where the NRA endorsed Harry Reid:
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-does-the-nra-support-harry-reid
“We stole this election fair and square, now move on and quit your whining” (according to the republican establishment)
Thank you for the ping!
Seeing Stuart Stevens posting his criticism of McDaniels at the Daily Beast just shows how the two parties have become so intertwined.
Long live the TEA Party people!
May we always scare them into revealing themselves!
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