Posted on 06/26/2014 11:04:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
It is obviously karma that Haley Barbour is equipped with looks that resemble Ned Beatty from the “purty mouth” scene in the movie Deliverance - or perhaps his portrayal of the corrupt Senator in the movie Shooter. Given that the former head of the Republican National Committee and Mississippi Governor will evidently wallow in the excreta and politically copulate with just about anyone, it’s appropriate.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Barbour and Beatty in the same room. Has anyone?
Consider: Haley’s Mississippi mafia has spent the past three weeks verifying Barbour’s electoral promiscuity in his hysteria to drag old Thad Cochran – and by old, I mean an OLD 76 – across the finish line against challenger Chris McDaniel. And by Mississippi mafia – in this case – I mean Barbour, Karl Rove, John Cornyn, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Mayor Bloomberg, Mitt Romney’s campaign manager, Facebook’s President, the Chamber of Crony Commerce, liberal black activists, various lobbyists, GOP consultants and Super PACs – to name a few. I would include Cochran himself in this cabal, but it is unclear if he could pass a thorough autopsy – and his presence often seemed irrelevant, if not detrimental.
Rumors have it this is the general attitude among his own Senate staffers too.
Certainly this kind of activity is not a new development for Barbour, now a wealthy lobbyist and power broker – yet what he and his minions did the past three weeks in Mississippi has now set a new low standard for odious campaign tactics practiced by the Republican Establishment. The corrupt, unethical and immoral political cross-dressing that Ned, er, Haley and his team implemented over the past 21 days is simply breathtaking.
To start with, the Cochran camp bragged about polling some 35 thousand mostly African American Democrat votes to their side – in yes, a Republican Primary.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/cochran_camp_says_35000_dems_crossed_over_to_vote_for_the_incumbent.html
These votes corrupted what should have been about an 8-9 per cent win for McDaniel. Never mind that the 35 thousand Democrats will never vote for any Republican in any general election beyond maybe 15-20% – and that they were motivated by walking around money, the promise of even more pork coming Mississippi’s way – and all manner of other considerations. This was in fact verified by Mississippi’s Democrat Party Chairman Ricky Cole.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Cochran-McDaniel-Results-Legal-Challenges
To make it worse, one motivational tactic used on African Americans was to parrot the liberal line that Tea Partiers are racists and want to suppress the black vote. Say what you want about political infidelity, but using liberal talking points against other Republicans is as low as you can go Ned.
In addition, the NRSC gave their staff the “week off,” then redeployed them to Mississippi to do whatever it took to turn out Democrats for ole Thad. Keep in mind, the NRSC raises money under the guise that they work against Democrats. In Mississippi, they bribed Democrats. This was an all out effort by Washington Republicans, all the while moaning about “outside groups” polluting the pristine Mississippi electorate on behalf of McDaniel.
And it gets even more contemptible. According to The Hill, Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry was paid by pro-Cochran Mississippi Conservatives PAC to conduct unspecified get-out-the-vote efforts for Cochran. Now rather obviously, this is a smidgeon of a potential conflict of interest between Perry’s duties as county GOP chairman and his work for the Cochran campaign.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/210485-losing-miss-challenger-weighs-legal-challenge
So where did all the money for this come from? A bunch of it came from a lobbyist and Senator only fund raiser hosted by Mitch McConnell – who fresh off savaging Matt Bevin – raised some 800 thousand dollars from Washington to do the same to McDaniel the very day after the Primary three weeks ago. This is the same McConnell who has yet to savage Barack Obama over anything.
And then there’s the Chamber of Commerce, who’s cronies dumped 100 thousand dollars a day into media – which goes a long way in this state – behind Cochran. Got to keep that crony capitalism coming.
Moreover, there was never even any pretense that Cochran understands, let alone concurs with, conservative base principles. He ran about as shamelessly liberal a campaign as any Mississippi Democrat would run. He didn’t even pretend to be conservative.
Did I mention that this was a Republican Primary?
Now Barbour is fond of saying that “Mike Castle is the best we can ever do” in Delaware, and has said the same of Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Scott Brown and other moderates in the Senate. He uses this as his justification for working against people like Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle. He self-righteously claims this in his frequent speeches to Republican organizations.
Frankly, he’s right about Brown – but he’s wrong about Castle and maybe about Snow and Collins – but for the sake of argument, I’ll concede Haley’s point for just a minute. If this “best we can ever do” litmus is the guiding philosophy, then are you telling me that Thad Cochran “is the best we can ever do” in Mississippi?
Hell no he’s not! It would be hard to do any worse in Mississippi.
By Haley’s own theory, he should have been working to defeat Cochran, not desperately pulling out every trick in the book, and some that aren’t even in the book, to preserve power for a man so clueless that he doesn’t even know what the Tea Party movement is about. Yes, I realize that argument uses logic, and up against the naked aggression of power preservation, logic doesn’t stand a chance.
Obviously, Barbour and his coterie are not concerned with any philosophy or principles other than greed and power. They are much more interested in certain people retaining government power than they are reducing government power in the first place. This is the axis on which the tension between the GOP establishment and the Tea Party / base exists. This intramural battle is of course pleasing to the Democrats. It’s the only thing standing between them and electoral disaster this November.
The Mississippi bridge burning engineered by the GOPE will destroy their beloved Party. How do you expect to win when you just crapped on your base and smeared them as racist.
In the general election how can the GOPE go before the voters and ask for conservatives to vote for them when they have tagged them as racist? When the democrats scream the Republicans are racist what can the GOPE say? The GOPE has taken care of that with an affirmative, yeah our base is racist and the GOPE trash expects to win? Do they think the democrats are going to suddenly vote for them, are they that dumb? Yes.
As I have thought about this latest GOPE stunt I have concluded I do not deal with such dishonorable and low class people in my business dealings or in my personal life. If I encounter such low life behavior I distance myself as I don’t want to be know by the company I keep and right now the GOPE is gutter trash. Yes you Party Boys and Rockefeller Republicans are nothing more than common trash who don’t know the meaning of the words: God, family, country, freedom, honor and honesty.
If I ran with your kind my conscience would be deeply troubled as you truly are dishonorable wretches of humanity.
I wash my hands of you and await a new opposition party to be formed as the current GOP is absorbed by the Democrat/communist party.
Makes you wonder what skeletons in Barbour’s closet old verminous Cochran has dangling on a string!....I sincerely Thad is too old, demented and clueless to hold anything over Barbours head. This is merely “we got one of ours in and he will do as he is told.”
Ping to original thread.
Thanks Black Agnes.
I have already this morning answered two emails from the GOPe requesting donations and told them that after decades, Mississippi drove me away.
Individual donations to conservatives are all for me now. I am not giving them money to use to print posters calling Tea Party folks racist.
Thanks for the link, here’s what I sent to them;
“Congratulations on your victory in Mississippi! The image of the Republican Party’s chosen son crawling to the local Democrats and begging them for help to defeat a fellow Republican will stay with me and many of my fellow Mississippians for a long time. You’ve used the same tactics that I deplore in any candidate, that of “win at any cost.” What did this deal cost the REAL Republicans? And how can you (and I say “you” because I have no doubt that Cochran wouldn’t have gotten on his knees before the Democrats without at least the tacit approval of the RNC) run an effective campaign against the very people to whom your candidate now owes his political existence?
After 6/24/14 I realize there’s no need for anyone to vote Republican this Fall since the Democrats will have 2 candidates on the ballot, one honest ethical one, and the stealth Democrat Thad Cochran.
Again, congratulations! You’ve served your Democrat masters well. Hope your payoff was worth selling us out...”
To think Barbour was once admired; what a POS he turned out to be!
It's worth a lot OrioleFan. Thanks!
Very nice! Thanks for taking the time to let me know.
If they don’t know, they’re going to find out in the GE, when all those rat votes they got in the run-off actually go to the rat that time, and all those conservative votes go elsewhere or nowhere, but not to them.
So have I, by email, because their cowardly MS office isn’t picking up the phone.
Amen to that. My old age cynicism is proving to be well-founded.
The GOP has never been better positioned to take back the senate and stop Obama.....however they typically have historically snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and this CRAP will destroy the momentum against the corrupt Obama administration as the party activists now will want to split the party - in which nobody wins.
These RINO’s are killing us.
I never liked Barbour.
NRA Endorses Travis Childers for Congress
Booneville, MS – Travis Childers has won the endorsement of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for his reelection to Congress as Representative of Mississippi’s First Congressional District, marking his second NRA endorsement since 2008. The NRA has also awarded Childers an “A+” – its highest rating – for his pro-gun voting record.
The NRA’s letter of endorsement is attached.
“I am extremely honored to accept the NRA’s endorsement and continued support,” said Childers. “The NRA has been the foremost promoter of Second Amendment rights for over a century. I am proud to be a consistent advocate of their mission to guarantee every American the fundamental and constitutional right to bear arms, and I will continue working hard to protect these constitutional freedoms.”
“On behalf of our four million members, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund is proud to endorse your candidacy for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives in Mississippi’s First Congressional District,” said NRA Chair Chris Cox in the association’s endorsement letter to Childers. “[Y]ou have demonstrated an active and proven commitment to our Second Amendment rights.”
Today’s announcement was made at endorsement events in both Hernando and Tupelo, where Childers was joined by local supporters. Making the announcement was Howie Morgan, NRA Election Volunteer Coordinator for Mississippi’s First Congressional District, who shared with voters why they should reelect Childers on November 2nd.
Childers has been a longtime champion of protecting Americans’ Second Amendment rights, and previously won the NRA’s endorsement during his 2008 congressional campaign. He is a member of the bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen Caucus and has been appointed to serve on the bipartisan Second Amendment Task Force.
When the District of Columbia circumvented the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and refused to overturn its unconstitutional gun ban, Childers fought back by introducing critical legislation to restore Second Amendment rights to D.C. residents. By helping protect the right to bear arms in our nation’s capital, Childers has worked to set a national precedent. He reintroduced similar legislation in the 111th Congress, and has continued to fight to protect these fundamental American freedoms.
Childers also voted against Obamacare.
Overall Childers is much more conservative than most of the Rockerfeller Republicans in the Senate who are squishy on life, guns and Obamacare.
Here we go. Don’t think that the rats don’t know which the wind is blowing here, they helped steer its course, right under the noses of the clueless GOP.
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