Posted on 08/30/2014 11:06:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was probably a catch 22. I seem to remember something about a certainn umber of days had to pass before he could file. And, ironically, or maybe not so ironic, it was the GOP dragging its feet that strung it out.
And Mitch McConnell and the RNC need to be prepared to see that seat go to a Democrat because they decided to thwart the will of the people and attack their base with false racist accusations.
Politics, like it or not, is a big money, slash and burn deadly serious game. Amateurs most often get amateur results. Im sorry for but not surprised at the results.
And I will not be sorry nor will I be surprised if Travis Childers takes that seat for the Democrats. As a matter of fact, I think i'm going to mail him a campaign contribution.
I would rather burn it down than let those backstabbers have it.
I suggest if we get any mailings from the RNC we print out those images and send them back in the postage-paid envelopes.
I would do it too, but for some reason they’ve stopped sending me solicitations. ;)
I recommend the exact opposite. Show up in force, and vote for the Democrat. Make them PAY for stabbing us in the back. If the Tea Party doesn't force them to pay a price for those racist ads, the Tea Party will be toast. They will run more racist ads against us in other Senate and House Races in two years.
Bite them for stepping on us. Whatever happened to this idea?
And that's why we need to burn down the existing party. If they want a political war, we need to give them a political war. We need to make them understand that the choice is either us or the Democrats.
The Tea Party is the only political force out there that will attempt to reign in the out of control government. If we can't get reformers into power, then there is no saving this nation.
The fix was in the minute after the first primary vote. McDaniel with adequate staff and personnel could have rammed it up Barbour and Cochran’s rectum with the runoff but elementary, amateurish and stupid actions by his camp turned off many voters that supported him in the first vote. McDaniel’s subsequent attempts at challenging the runoff voting was orchestrated with incompetence. The wheels came off McDaniel early with his staff’s and his mishandling of the nursing home incident.
because if you aren’t a liar and a cheater you don’t deserve to win?? Is that what it means?
I’d rather burn it down too. I would rather skip that vote than vote for Dems or anti-conservative R’s
I sense you won’t be alone. TEA took out Cantor in VA after being cheated out of a Cuccinelli win by RATS funding that losertarian, Mississippi TEA will be out for vengeance as well.
Just d—n!
The Tea Party needs to make the sentiment on that flag into a reality. We need to bite those people who step on us.
The only way to bite them is to make their dirty dealings blow up in their face. We need Cochran OUT, and we need McConnell OUT. At this point, they are worse than Democrats.
And the good fortune for our Mississippi brothers and sisters is the Dem candidate looks relatively sane.
Although the horse has escaped from the barn on this situation, I’m going to sound the McDaniel alert for such situations in the future.
That would really get into uncharted territory. For one, there's probably several Chris McDaniels in Mississippi. Should a "Chris McDaniel" win a write-in campaign, would not any one of them be able to step forward and try to claim the Senate seat?
“I dont believe thats allowable in that state.”
He wouldn’t have to win. Just cost Cochran the election. Cochran and the GOPe don’t deserve it. They are just clinging to power and perpetuating everything wrong with the GOP. Hopefully, they would learn a valuable lesson, quit using corruption and respect the will of the voters.
But maybe not. I had thought that they had already hit rock bottom and learned their lessons. Apparently they hit rock bottom and started digging.
Link citing the specific statutes, and informative comments
h/t Lurking Libertarian
Absolutely not! That’s not at all what I said. I am in favor of the legal challenge whether it wins or loses, but like all legal challenges, there are deadlines for certain things and not knowing those deadlines is being ignorant, in part or in whole, of the law. You can have the most exquisitely crafted legal case ever constructed by man, but if it is submitted late, it is late, and you are chopped off at the knees. 20 days is a tight deadline. You submit a legal challenge late and it is 1000 times easier for a judge to say “you’re late, get out of here” than to take complex matters under advisement and evaluate evidence and all those other things that NAIVE people expect from an idealized vision of the legal system. The fact of the matter is, you either make it easy for someone to act as you would wish or you make it hard. Submitting forms late makes or allows the judge to take the easy way out.
To me, the campaign materials promulgated by the Cochran side reeked of dirty tricks and a questionable outcome early on. Thus the challenge was to be anticipated as a requirement by the McDaniel side. Not anticipating it is being unprepared. This “unprepared” thing has cost the TP plenty of elections.
Respectfully, I just don’t agree. (Thankfully, I guess, I’m in Texas, so don’t count)
Voting for democrats is cutting off our nose to spite our face.
If only people (conservatives & independents) could get their act together & have Cochran get historically few votes. Now that would send a message.
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