Posted on 06/28/2014 3:38:13 AM PDT by OldRanchHand
RINO – Republican In Name Only – is a term used to describe people who are not truly Republican, they just run as a Republican on the ballot to get elected. Is Chris McDaniel a RINO?
He claims he is a lifelong Republican, but…
He voted in the Democratic Primary
“Records show conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel voted as a Democrat in the 2003 state primary.” –Associated Press 11/13/2013
Chris McDaniel denied it. But, “McDaniel’s campaign spokesman Keith Plunkett said it is possible McDaniel voted in the 2003 Democratic primary.”
Mississippi’s Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann confirms it: “I looked at [the records], and they show he voted Democrat when Haley Barbour, Amy Tuck, Tate Reeves and Stacey Pickering were running in the Republican Primary. They also show he didn’t vote in the presidential election in 2004 — when Bush was running — and didn’t vote in the Republican Primary in 2008.”
So, Chris McDaniel says he is a lifelong Republican. But he voted in the Democratic Primary; didn’t vote in an important Republican Primary, and when liberal Democrat Senator John Kerry was running against President George W. Bush…he didn’t vote at all.
Chris McDaniel, he says one thing, his record says something else.
Which Party Is It?
When Chris McDaniel first ran for his office in 2007, Ryan Walters, one of his top advisers on his campaign committee was just four years prior the Vice Chairman of the Mississippi Reform Party and served on the Reform Party National Committee.
In 2012, Chris McDaniel was a featured speaker at the Mississippi Constitution Party’s State Convention.
And in April, when faced with criticisms of the Libertarian Party, he tried to make amends with that organization, he said, “I defended the Libertarian party on many occasions, despite objections from some on the political right.”
So which is it, Chris? Reform Party or Constitution Party or Republican Party or Libertarian Party or Democratic Party?
Perhaps we’ll never know, because as McDaniel said to the Libertarians, “the longer I serve in government, the more my positions evolve.”
Editorial
The Carthaginian – November 21, 2013 Editorial: McDaniel can’t cry ‘Liar’
A few years back a new newspaper editor moved into a South Delta town and began pumping life into the local weekly with lively news that evoked some consternation.
It led to some serious name calling against the scribe, culminating, the story goes, with a elderly farmer walking through the door of the newspaper and inquiring, “Are you the fellow everyone’s calling a ***-**-*-*****?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well,” the old farmer rejoined, “ain’t nobody calling you a liar.”
Chris McDaniel, Tea Party hopeful for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Thad Cochran, has taken issue with reports he has, in times past, voted a Democratic Party ticket or skipped major Republican Party votes.
After initial confusion in his reply, it came out that state maintained computer records did show McDaniel had voted in a Democratic Party primary and skipped a GOP primary.
That apparently being a grave insult to his conservative credentials, McDaniel or his mouthpieces countered that he had to vote Democratic to vote in local elections, that perhaps someone had struck a wrong key and his vote was improperly recorded, that Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a rumored GOP aspirant to the Senate seat, was playing politics at state expense.
The key now is, he ain’t calling nobody a liar.
It's the liberal republicans that support and advance the liberal agenda. They must be destroyed. Many more are seeing that because of the actions of the liberal republicans in this race.
It will be good to see McConnell and Cochran both lose their general elections.
The liberal republicans must be denied a majority in the Senate.
/johnny
Do you want to do SOMETHING to keep Republicans clean? It looks like they are about to follow Democrats into that good night. We got to have a good talk with that boy that supposedly performed indecent acts with barnyard animals in Mississippi when young. We can’t let him go into a second childhood doing the same thing, except in Washington.
troll
We don’t steal elections. Your boy, the senile old creep Thad, participated in one of the most egregious vote-buying/manipulating scandals in the modern era. This is antithetical to a free republic. Your boy likes to employ Democrat methods of the old school variety, voter theft and cheating, he should officially join their ranks.
OldRanchHand you sir, are an idiot
:reported by a number of independent news sources, including the associated press.:
AP is NOT an independent news sources - AP are Dem/Commie handmaidens who specialize in propaganda, just like the Soviets, maybe better
what it like to be a paid troll for the DC elite and utterly sleazy corrupt Barbour mafia .
So what? Maybe the Democrat was more conservative thatn the republican. Maybe McDaniel was a crossover voter in a primary, you know, like Barbour encouraged in the race, even though Barbour sued for closed primaries in the state of Mississippi.
I do pity the old fool, he is more a puppet than instigator.
The old fool needs to hear loud and clear from young whippersnappers.
A number of people have invoked the Buckley rule without understanding it, it has replaced Reagan’s 11th commandment.
In fact Buckley formed BuckPac to knock out a Republican (Weicker), and replace him with a Democrat (Lieberman) who wasn’t even conservative. While Cochran is no Weicker, the people who are his puppeteers are souless and are willing to risk the nationwide election and the party on the future for his seat. At some point. you can no longer say “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Did you hand out walking around in the black precincts for K street and Barbour mafia ?
Funny….I think I dreamt last night that the GOP won the Senate, even tho McConnell and Cochran lost…...
Never ended up with fried ranch dressing after a zot before. Might have to try it on some buffalo wings this weekend.
Considering the blowback he’s getting, I don’t think OldRanchHand’s gonna get much of a bonus from the MS GOPe for this thread...
On average, the GOP is not conservative. And it seems to me the GOP are more effective at restraining government when it is in the minority. IOW, they are not powerless in the minority.
His FR posting privs are forever gone as well.
Thanks for all you guys do.
/johnny
He blowed up real good.
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