Posted on 10/29/2014 6:34:16 AM PDT by WXRGina
After the Mississippi Supreme Court last week refused to hear MS State Senator Chris McDaniel’s appeal of a lower court’s dismissal of his challenge to the fraud-riddled Republican Senate primary run-off election, conservatives in Mississippi are now bereft of our chosen nominee, Chris McDaniel. Conservatives and Republicans in this state twice voted as a majority for Chris McDaniel to be our nominee for the Senate.
In the original Republican primary election, Senator McDaniel defeated U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, but he didn’t get the required fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run-off. After a detestable, slimy—and possibly criminal—run-off campaign undertaken by the desperate Haley Barbour-Thad Cochran machine, Chris McDaniel still got nearly sixty percent of the Republican vote. But Cochran “won,” because of Democrats voting in the Republican primary run-off, even though many of them had already voted in the earlier Democrat primary election, which is illegal in Mississippi.
Since last week, many thousands of Chris McDaniel supporters are struggling mightily with how to vote next Tuesday or whether to even vote at all. After the wicked behavior of Thad Cochran’s campaign in telling detestable lies about Chris McDaniel and his supporters, along with allegations of possible vote buying and other gutter tactics, we are left with a terribly crummy dilemma. What true conservative would want to vote for Thad Cochran after his reprehensible actions? So, what do we do?
Before you knee-jerk that we “have no choice” but to vote for Thad Cochran, just give me a few minutes here.
I read an outstanding column by Ryan Walters published Sunday at the Mississippi Conservative Daily. “Cochran vs. Childers: To Vote, Or Not To Vote: That Is The Question” is truly a must-read for Mississippi conservatives who are still reeling from the Cochran-campaign-from-Hell and the clear collusion in the fraud-laden sham of an election by GOP and state officials at every level. In his column, Mr. Walters analyzes each voting option available to us: voting for Thad Cochran, voting for Democrat Travis Childers, voting for third-partier Shawn O’Hara, writing in Chris McDaniel or not voting at all. Beginning with option one, Mr. Walters writes:
The first option, and the one pushed by the establishment, is for all McDaniel Republicans to let bygones be bygones and be nice little Republicans and support the nominee. Honestly, I’d rather work for a week at an Ebola treatment center without a HAZMAT suit than cast a vote for Thad Cochran. It’s simply unthinkable in my eyes, but certainly an option for many Republican voters, at least those curiously obsessed with taking back the US Senate from Harry Reid and the Democrats.
He then goes on to explain the flaws in this choice. It is commonly rumored that Thad Cochran will retire and not complete his next term, so a replacement would be appointed by Governor Phil Bryant. What we would get in that case is another RINO like Cochran, except younger, and he would be much harder to defeat than a newbie Democrat like Travis Childers.
The other choices in this election are to vote for the third party candidate (wasted vote), to write in Chris McDaniel in protest (wasted vote), to not vote (wasted vote) or to vote for the Democrat Travis Childers. To most conservatives, voting for the Democrat is almost unimaginable. However, Travis Childers presents himself as a “moderate” Democrat (a rare breed today, if indeed he is one) who has signed a pledge to fight against amnesty for illegal aliens and who supports a balanced budget amendment, although that is fraught with its own problems (see “balanced budget amendment” information here). When it comes to being conservative, Childers and Cochran could compete with each other—that’s how bad Thad Cochran is.
What about the argument that we simply must vote for Republicans to recapture the Senate? We can look back at the last time Republicans held the House, the Senate and the presidency. How did that work out for conservatism, freedom, and a return to constitutional government? It didn’t. How about that Republican opposition to every lawless act of the Obama Crime Syndicate and congressional commie Democrats? You would need an electron microscope just to see even a fleeting, atomic hint of it. Do you really believe establishment Republicans like Thad Cochran have any intention at all of opposing the evil agenda of the thug administration of Barack Obama (or whatever his name is)?
Of the we-must-support-Republicans-no-matter-what argument, Mr. Walters writes:
Does anyone really think it will be any different this time around? During this election cycle, the GOP has no platform, no agenda, and no ideas to speak of. Amazingly, they are not even running on repealing Obamacare anymore or against the administration plan to bring in as many as 35 million immigrants and put them on the fast track to citizenship. We simply can’t trust them to do anything about this lawless President. So far they’ve done nothing with control of the House and, without a new cast of true conservatives like Chris McDaniel, they won’t do anything with control of the Senate either.
And what about Harry Reid? He seems to be the personification of evil in the US Senate and a target for many Republican campaigns: Let’s rid the Senate of Majority Leader Harry Reid. Childers has promised not to vote for Reid for any leadership position, and although many might argue that he will surely go back on that promise, at least he has taken a public position on it. Has Cochran vowed not to support Mitch McConnell? Is McConnell really that much better than Reid? No, he’s not.
So the bottom line for a Childers vote is this: the only sure way to get rid of Thad Cochran and punish the establishment is to vote for Travis Childers. And in six years, we can replace Childers with a solid conservative.
I can already hear the screeching and derision from Republicans who, out of fear, insist that we have no choice but to vote for Thad Cochran, but I strongly disagree. Our nation is on the brink of disaster at the hands of communist enemies within, and going with the establishment flow has no chance of stopping them. Without people like Chris McDaniel replacing RINO fixtures like Thad Cochran, we certainly have no chance. Sending Thad Cochran back will not stop or even slow down the communist Democrat agenda. At this late hour, we may not be able to stop it anyway, but at least we would have a better chance of later defeating Democrat Travis Childers than anyone Gov. Bryant might appoint to Cochran’s Senate seat. What if he appointed former MS Governor Haley Barbour? We would have no chance of defeating Gov. Barbour later.
I have heard from many Chris McDaniel supporters who intend to vote for Travis Childers (not FOR Childers but AGAINST Cochran). If every Chris McDaniel supporter voted for Travis Childers, we could defeat Thad Cochran, because we would be adding our votes to the Democrats, including the ones who voted for Cochran in the run-off but who certainly won’t vote for him in the general election. We could send a clear message to the RINO establishment that the degenerate, sewer campaign by the Barbour-Cochran machine will not stand, will not be rewarded. This would not be an endorsement of Democrat Travis Childers but a repudiation of the slime and cynicism of Thad Cochran’s campaign (not to mention his big-spending, big-government voting record of 754 years in Washington).
Or, we could just go ahead and send the RINO Cochran back to D.C. to continue his complicity in the destruction of our constitutional Republic.
I say, “Remember Mississippi!” Say NO to Thad Cochran!
The replacement will be Gregg Harper or a Barbour.
Ie, just like Cochran only way younger and likely to have the seat for 40+ years or more.
If Childers is elected it is for a full 6 year term. If Cochran is elected and resigns or dies, the person appointed to replace him will serve until the next general election (2016) when there will be an election to fill out the remainder of his term. With the possibility of Cochran or his replacement for two years or Childers for a certain six years, I would opt for Cochran.
Given the strength of conservatives shown in the primary, it should be possible to work with the state legislature to amend the election laws to make a closed primary system and prevent this problem from happening again. From an individual standpoint, I would rather win in the long run than get even in the short term.
The same pubbie party insiders who’ve done this in the primary are the very ones who have stated they’re opposed to closing the primary.
(Gosh, I wonder why...maybe because they tacitly acknowledge their real constituents are dims?)
Agreed...
If the GOPe really wanted to have this seat they could have made thad bow out. McDaniel would have won the general and conservatives would not have the white hot hatred they do now.
All they had to do to avoid making their base think of them as a HATED enemy, is give us Thads political head and shut turtle boy Mitch’s beak.
They wouldn’t do it... They wouldn’t give us the head of the guy who partnered with DEMOCRATS (socialists) to commit VOTE FRAUD in a republican PRIMARY that he knew he was going to lose. Nor would they put a straight jacket on Mitch. For F—k’s sake, he ENABLED Thad to commit vote fraud against McDaniel! These acts are UNFORGIVABLE!
They wouldn’t do it... and now they have started a war with their base that will see the party and possibly the country burned to the ground. There will be no peace until, at the very least, these two are gone. They cant come back from what they have done and I can GUARANTEE you that we would rather sit a lousy ass democrat in that seat for 6 years than one of these two bastards.
Congratulations GOPe... One way or another you WILL be consumed by the rage you instilled in the base. YOU are the primary targets now. THAT will NOT change! no matter how many internet trolls you send out to voice the same old tired B.S.
Heck, my senator is Cornyn and I didn’t vote for him, in part, because he was a party to what happened in Mississippi.
No dilemma for me AT ALL.
This is bullshit logic...
If they intended to give the position to McDaniel if/when Thad finally dies of old age they wouldn’t have condoned and funded the VOTE FRAUD that it took to beat him in the first place.
GOPe internet minions are just so incredibly stupid...
The only way to deal with these RINO’s is to defeat them.
I will never, not ever, vote for a RINO!
“Thad Cochran does NOT deserve to be “rewarded” for his—possibly criminal—conduct in the primary run-off.”
You’re right, cochran, his campaign, the barbours, the RNSC, the RNC nor the Mississippi gop should be rewarded. There will be NO good outcome to this race as it has been tainted by those I mentioned above. I will not vote and give credence to a non-descript third party. I will not vote for a self-described “conservative” democrat, first there’s no such thing as a Conservative democrat using Conservative as it’s defined by Conservatives. A democrat who voted FOR “The Food Safety Act” and who couldn’t “make up his mind” on obamacare until they had the votes to pass it and his wasn’t needed, then he heroically steps up and votes against it hoping to hold a seat for democrats in a very Conservative district. childers is a snake but if he wins he’s likely to be re-elected and sit there voting somewhat conservative until the democrats really need his vote, like manchin. I will NOT vote for thad cochran, I’m still bothered by the knife wound in my back. I’m writing in Chris Mcdaniel. I know it won’t be counted but it will show as a NO vote on the Senate race, more voters than votes in that race. Those who count the votes, the election workers and the Republican and democrat party officials will be aware of exactly what’s happening. If there were to be a silver lining or good outcome to this election is that if cochran wins and the Mississippi Republican party realizes the damage they’ve wrought and works to repair it and our governor decides to NOT appoint himself to the seat when cochran quits and retires within two years and I believe he will. If the Governor would appoint a bonafide Conservative that’s not in haley barbour’s pocket, this could possibly but probably not work out. I vote in DeSoto County, in the primary we gave McDaniel 63% of the vote, in the runoff, with a sizeable increase in turnout over the primary, we gave McDaniel 70% of the vote. This is a strong Republican county and I believe the gop is not going to be pleased with the outcome although I do believe cochran will carry it. I believe the turnout will be light for a federal election and the winning margin by a Republican at the top of the ticket, cochran, will be smaller.
There will be NO votes for Cochran from this household! FUTC!!!
Wow! I said basically the same thing before I read your Post #9. The whole plan here was for Thad to run - win - resign. Then Haley Barbour gets his nephew appointed to that seat.
“The replacement will be Gregg Harper or a Barbour.”
Or, just as bad, I’ve heard Lt. Gov. tate reeves mentioned.
Hell yeah Sybeck1! I wish I lived in MS so I could vote AGAINST that despicable p.o.s. Thad Cochran.
“There will be NO votes for Cochran from this household! FUTC!!!”
This house either for cochran or childers. FU to both TCs
Thank you, Din Maker!
Likely Thad will resign for medical reasons shortly and another Republican will be appointed awaiting a new election.
The appointee could be McDaniels
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Oh, come on X-spurt. You know better than that. The plan from the beginning was for Thad to win and resign 6 months later and Haley “Boss Hog” Barbour will get his nephew appointed to that seat.
If I lived in MS, I’d vote for the Conservative Dem, Travis Childers (Pro-Life, Pro-Second Amendment, ANTI: Same/Sex marriage, ANTI-Amnesty). The best thing that could happen is that ol’ Thad go on home to that Senate Cloak room in the sky before Nov. 4.
Thanks for the ping. I have not been able to make up my mind what to do but you ma
de it up for me thanks
Then he needs to make that a promise and the promise has to exclude Barbor associates.
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OMGoodness Paladin. That would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Who could trust the word of any politician; especially a low-life, scumbag, p.o.s. like Thad Cochran? From your screen name, I know that you’re not young enough to be naive. Perhaps you are just a “forgiving” person. Me?..... I’m one vindictive a-hole.
I, and the 5 votes in my sphere of influence, will be voting for Childers. It will be wholly unfamiliar to us voting for a Democrat but you can’t stab us in the back and walk away scot free.
But screw Cochran. I wouldn't vote for him with a gun to my head. He wants to call conservatives racists and pay people to vote illegally for him, he can eff off. Majorities be damned.
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