Posted on 08/29/2015 6:45:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
They had it all. The GOP party bosses appeared to be winning every legislative and electoral battle with conservatives. After beating back almost every primary challenge in 2014 and after passing one liberal bill after another with the support of Democrats, the elite technocrats and cronies within the party were high-fiving and slapping each other’s backs over their successfully crushing of the tea party.
Except – they never won anything. It was all an illusion. And in fact, their temporary victories set the stage for an irrevocable defeat in the long-run.
Last cycle, in my previous job, I was heavily involved in recruiting primary candidates to run against the phony Republican political class. The most striking lesson throughout the election season was that not a single establishment Republican would run on the veracity of their views – the ones they espouse and pursue in Washington. They co-opted all of our talking points on the core issues while often accusing the conservative candidates of being ideologically impure. In addition, they used their superior money, resources, and talent to bury the upstart candidates – most of whom had only rudimentary campaign resources and novice staff – before the candidates could even define themselves.
The bravado from the GOP establishment was only emboldened by the smashing victory over the Democrats in the general election.
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You’re worthless. Go away and don’t bother me anymore.
And if you start a new party, they’ll beat you in the general election with the same tactics they’re beating you in the primary with now.
You’ve just got to do a better job beating them in the primaries. It’s been done. Ted Cruz did it. If you can’t do that, what makes you think you can beat the same candidates in the general election?
Worthless is a matter of perspective. The kind of perspective one gains when inspecting the trail of useless argument here with you and me. If I am so “worthless” and have to go away, why is it that it was you who first replied to something I posted to someone else?
I never ‘bothered’ you in the first place; it was you who ‘bothered’ me with your guesses.
No, I plead ignorance of Mark Mayfield.
I will say this, however. Gaffer is one great conservative. I haven’t been able, time-wise, to follow the discussion you’re having with him with any real penetration. I just want to underscore that he is the real (conservative) deal—so proud to be a fellow resident with him in the good Southern state of GA.
Never mind the discussion from Gaffer. It’s meaningless.
Mark Mayfield was a solid and humble lawyer in Mississippi. He came out for the Tea Party and fervently supported Chris McDaniel for US Senator. He was a quiet man whose business was to manage wills and estate planning for his community.
Mark was never a very vocal person, never outlandish. He was quiet and a devout Christian. His family, his neighbors and community all loved him. He was very likable. He was a grandfather and very meek in his demeanor.
But promoting fund raisers for Chris McDaniel was crossing the line in the eyes of the Cochran-Barbour machine in Mississippi. So they set out to get him.
A few dimwits in Mississippi wanted to create a sensation when they discovered Cochran had a young girlfriend in Washington DC while his wife was tucked away in a nursing home in Mississippi. The dimwits had no connection to Chris McDaniel nor any connection to Mark Mayfield. Chris and Mark didn’t even know these guys.
The dimwits communicated amongst each other on facebook pages and they concocted a scheme to go to the nursing home to record an interview of Cochran’s wife during visiting hours but they didn’t know how to approach the Nursing Home Director. Then one of them posted on FB that Mark Mayfield knew the director. But they posted later that Mark said he wanted nothing to do with it.
Later the dimwits gained access to the Nursing Home to record the interview. They went in during visiting hours past the reception desk presumably with permission. And they posted everything and sent their findings to some local media. Their story gained national attention.
The Cochran-Barbour machine came down on the dimwits like a ton of bricks and had they stopped with just a stern admonishment, they would have gained a lot of sympathy. But instead Cochran himself called the local police in Madison where he knew the mayor who was part of the machine. And he talked to her, the Mayor of Madison, and he persuaded her to throw the book at the dimwits.
She upped the charges to a felony of harassment, invasion of privacy, etc. In addition when the police confiscated the computers of the dimwits and reviewed their FB postings, they saw Mark Mayfield’s name and noted he was a Tea Party and Chris McDaniel supporter.
The Madison police during working hours busted through the door of Mark’s business, cuffed him, took all his computers, frightened the hell out of his staff and hauled him off to jail and booked him. They also released photos and information to the press showing him in handcuffs with headlines of being booked on felony charges and so on.
Mark’s business shutdown shortly thereafter. His best clients all withdrew their business.
Mark was released on bail and was found dead in his garage of a gun wound soon after.
Mark lived in a nearby town that was out of the jurisdiction of the Madison Police but that didn’t stop a squad of Madison Police to go to his home to ‘investigate’ the death. Mark’s family sued the Madison Police for harassment.
It was a wrongful death and the responsibility of it lies flatly on the lap of Thad Cochran who put the whole series of events into motion.
Both Cochran and Barbour are former democrats that switched during the Reagan Revolution for ‘convenience’. But they still operate like democrats always did in the South.
It was reported that one of Barbour’s sons was so upset by the Mark Mayfield incident that he was possibly in revolt of his father; that there was internal dissension in the Barbour family. But the Barbour family derives a lot from RNC and Beltway graft so they likely had the story of family dissent hushed. Barbour especially collected millions in fees from deals involving the Export-Import Bank that Ted Cruz and members of the House are trying to defund. That subject is coming up soon again.
The takeaway is there are some real bad crooks as politicians in Mississippi. Eventually they have to be rounded up and tried in a court of law, or banished from politics and dealings with the government.
You know, I had forgotten the name [bad memory, I guess] but as soon as I started reading your excellent acvount, I remembered this horrible, tragic, sick and depraved incident. It’s just unspeakable, the corruption and real, pure evil that has rotted MS politics from the inside out. Thoughts and prayers, even now, for this poor man and his survivors.
The big consolation we can savor right now is that the GOPe is finally facing payback. Trump is their worst nightmare—and barring catastrophe, he’s not going away. If, on election night ‘16, we are wildly, exuberantly celebrating a Trump victory, let’s take a moment to reflect on the GOPe’s most innocent casualties, and know Trump’s win is a belated form of justice for them too.
> “The big consolation we can savor right now is that the GOPe is finally facing payback. Trump is their worst nightmare—and barring catastrophe, he’s not going away.”
100% AGREE.
> “If, on election night ‘16, we are wildly, exuberantly celebrating a Trump victory, let’s take a moment to reflect on the GOPe’s most innocent casualties, and know Trump’s win is a belated form of justice for them too.”
As Joe Dan says, “DONALD TRUMP IS OUR MIDDLE FINGER!” to the GOP establishment.
Time 4:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08iTxTg15BM
Or as Lincoln put it, “I can’t spare the man, he fights!"
The real problem is there is not enough Ted Cruz’s to go around to knock out the daemons of either party. The lame GOPe other than the leftist party is the only game in town. They are almost one in the same, so hope is not near.
Right.
We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the acceptable.
I’ll vote for Cruz, too, if he is the nominee. Maybe before. I never set a position about a candidate in stone.
bttt
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