Posted on 06/27/2014 4:28:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
By now you've probably seen the reaction to Tuesday night’s Mississippi Republican Senate primary election, in which shaky incumbent Thad Cochran eked out a victory over Tea Party insurgent Chris McDaniel by making use of some rather unconventional electoral tactics.
Cochran dedicated most of his efforts to pursuing Democrats, and specifically the black community. He went so far as to threaten his new voting base by saying McDaniel would cut food stamps,and made conspicuous charges of racism against both McDaniel and the Tea Party. There were further allegations, substantiated in news reports, of “street money” paid to Democratic fixers to turn out the votes of,shall we say,“new” Republican voters crossing over to vote for Cochran on a one-time basis.
The result was exactly what Cochran and his allies,including former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, wanted and needed. Cochran managed to pull in some 35,000 “crossover” Democratic voters in a race he won by less than 7,000 votes. This created what appears to be a peculiar result:McDaniel won a relatively clear majority of Republican votes in a Republican primary, and still lost the election by a fifty-one to forty-nine margin.
To say that the Tea Party and conservative activists are unhappy about these developments would be a massive understatement....Erick Erickson delivered a stinging rebuke of Cochran’s tactics and a stern warning about the effect they might have on the already-shaky relations between the party’s Washington leadership and its conservative base:............
....But most of all,there is a lot of soul-searching going on—particularly on the part of a number of the Senate’s more outspoken conservatives, who might have gone into Mississippi to help McDaniel but for their having made a pledge not to campaign against incumbents.“That pledge would have to presuppose that Cochran wouldn’t run a Democratic campaign in a Republican primary, right?” said one of the staffers.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Cochran’s reprehensible tactics turned me totally anti-incumbant or Tea Party
A minor point here, but one would have to have a soul in the first place in order to ‘search it.’
Democratic Party = Communists
Republican Party = Old Democratic Party
Tea Party = Old Republican Party
And why do this for a candidate who is showing signs of dementia and will be 83 years old by the time this term ends.
Democratic Party = Leftwing Big Govt Communist Party
Republican Party = Leftwing Big Govt Socialist Party
Tea Party = Constitutional Party
Anybody interested in letting the Republican National Committee know what they think: http://www.gop.com/contact-us/
Only takes a minute and better than doing nothing. Have at it.
Dead On
It is at least somewhat encouraging that some staffers and Senators in DC are worried about what Thad did, and moreover, considering not supporting the NRSC if they ever get involved in primaries again.
I’m practically anti-GOP after this.
Between the House elevating McCarthy and the Senate’s stunt with Cochran, I’ll be voting GOP at the state level and the rest can pound sand.
So, where does that leave you with Ted Cruz?
I just wrote the Republican National Committee and basically told them to go perform a physically impossible act on themselves.
His staff and the lobbyists control him. I don’t really understand how it all works, but I do know Thad all by himself isn’t worth all this to anyone.
I appreciate the way you keep posting that link. Yesterday I taunted them over their pyrrhic victory. Today I called them Kamikazes...who had awakened the sleeping giant. I still haven’t mentioned their ‘bridge too far’. I’ll plan to use that one next time.
We need to push Thad Cochran to quit the race. I thought his story about farm animals showed he was senile.
The GOP needs to talk him into quiting for health reasons. Then he can bow out gracefully. The base of the Republican party is in revolt. The GOP elites better wake up.
Good luck at finding one!
The next GOP fundraising letter I get, I will write on it in bold Sharpie letters:
DO YOUR FUND RAISING WITH MISSISSIPPI DEMOCTATS!
SEE HOW WELL THAT WORKS FOR YOU!!
Only takes a minute and better than doing nothing. Have at it.
Thanks for posting that. I already did, two days ago and it was not a pleasant love note. I hate them with a passion I thought I never could attain.
Here in Indiana, Richard Lugar was 82 when we decided enough was enough. We chose a man in the primaries that beat him, but stepped on his uh... and the leftist media based in Indianapolis (sorry Indians...) excoriated him over some ill conceived words.
We subsequently elected a 'moderate' Democrat.
Buyers remorse settled in quite quickly...
I cannot answer for others,
but if Cruz runs as a Republican, I will NOT vote for him. If Sarah Palin runs as a Republican, I will not vote for her.
I no longer vote for Republicans.
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