Posted on 06/30/2014 11:22:34 AM PDT by cotton1706
One week after traveling to Mississippi to do his utmost to help Senator Thad Cochran (R) beat Tea Party rival Chris McDaniel, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talked about the strengths he saw in Cochran's approach to campaigning.
According to AZ Central, McCain dismissed criticism over the tactics the Republican Establishment used to get black Democrats to cross over and vote for Cochran.
Said McCain, "There are some people complaining that African-American voters voted. [But] I thought one of the major priorities of the Republican Party was to get all minority and ethnic voters out to vote for Republicans."
He described Cochran's "get-out-the-vote campaign" as "excellent," then talked about how he will face similar circumstances in Arizona and needs to work equally as hard if he runs again. "The key is you'd better pay attention, you'd better work hard, you'd better organize." He added, "And you'd better understand that there's a strong anti-Washington/anti-incumbency sentiment out there, which is justified and you've got your work cut out for you."
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It would mean something if the “cross-over” democrats would actually vote republican in the general election.
What a screwed up political party.
If I were in MS, I’d be watching the polls for other Senate races going into November and if it looked like Cochran wasn’t going to be needed for a 51 seat majority, I’d certainly consider voting for Childers, for all the reasons you stated, and I’d be hoping he won so as to send a huge message to the Haley Barbour’s of the GOPe.
But if the Senate majority is up for grabs and it could depend on Cochran holding his seat, then I’d hope that McDaniel’s voters would hold their noses and vote for Cochran, or else just stay home. Otherwise, you’d risk letting Haley Barbour cause you to let Harry Reid stay in charge for another two years. That price is way too high to pay for the satisfaction of sending a message.
Hopefully, McDaniels will find enough double voters to get a judge to order a remedy. It would be a hoot to see the judge haul a few of the Republicans who coordinated the effort into court and threaten them all with jail time unless they could convince Cochran to concede. After all, under MS law, voting in the GOP primary when you intend to vote Dem in November is technically illegal, so those operatives were encouraging massive illegality that goes beyond the clearly-illegal double voting issue.
Cochran deserves to lose. Prison would be better.
IIRC, any candidate convicted of vote buying in this state becomes ineligible to hold any office.
I posted my last reply before I found out about the brewing vote-buying scandal.
I’d say McDaniel’s prospects have suddenly improved if he takes the entire matter to court. The prospect of Cochran conceding “graciously” have also increased, I suspect.
I posted my last reply before I found out about the brewing vote-buying scandal.
I’d say McDaniel’s prospects have suddenly improved if he takes the entire matter to court. The prospect of Cochran conceding “graciously” have also increased, I suspect.
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