Posted on 08/04/2014 5:25:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....McDaniel will unveil the challenge during a Monday afternoon press conference, his campaign confirmed to The Hill, which was announced to reporters last week and teased as an opportunity for McDaniel “to announce a major development regarding the results of the June 24 runoff election.”
Cochran won the fierce primary fight in the runoff, finishing with a 7,667-vote lead when the results were certified, unanimously, by the Mississippi GOP executive committee over a month ago.
McDaniel has yet to concede, however, and he’s accused Cochran’s team of “stealing” the election, in part by courting African American Democrats to head to the polls for the senator in the runoff. He and his supporters have spent the subsequent weeks poring over poll books, looking for irregular votes. They claim they’ve found over 8,300 irregular votes — more than enough, they believe, to challenge the runoff results in court and successfully win a special election re-do of the race....."
Dang, when Trent Lott is the voice of wisdom for the estabs, you know the establishment is clueless…...
“....“This has shown the fissures that are there and I do think the party leaders – it may cause the need for some change in the party leadership,” Lott, now the co-chairman of Squire Patton Boggs’ public policy practice, told The Hill during a wide-ranging interview at the firm’s Washington office. ...”
Lott’s looking out for Lott. He and his Squire Patton Bogg’s co-chairman John Breaux are looking to capture some clients.
If these guys think we are going to forget this they have another think coming.
Lott says this AFTER his buddy Thad Cochran is renominated.
Well of course, but in this case, his warnings and statements about the Mississippi GOP are correct.
I’ve long stopped worrying about motives all the time….I’ll take a smidgeon of good advice regardless of the self serving nature of it.
And Noah faced a little bit of precipitation.
One of the things I hate is when rinos call us purist. They don’t realize being pure is good. Here’s a list of who they are and want us to be. Pick your favorite in response to what they consider an insult. I’m happy to admit who I am.
adulterated
defiled
dirty
filthy
foul
gross
immodest
impure
indecent
indelicate
lewd
mixed
obscene
polluted
stained
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tainted
tarnished
unchaste
unclean
Right.
: )
Lott is massaging this - milking it; he is sympathizing with the establishment.
So basically, The Hill was looking to print a “Republicans are in Disarray” story with a Mississippi angle to it so they dug up that old crony capitalist lobbyist Lott for some content quotes. You know that is the only reason they are talking to him.
Go away, Trent. I’ve really been enjoying your being out of the limelight. Why ruin a good thing?
McDaniel and his allies have accused Cochran of “stealing” the nomination, in part
by courting African-American Democrats to turn out for the senator.
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I keep seeing this attribution about ‘turning out for the senator’. Why didn’t
McDaniel make an attempt to ‘turn out these voters for his campaign? Does he not
consider them a part fo the Mississippi voting constituency?
Mississippi ping
You’ve been around FreeRepublic since 1998 and you’re only now getting caught up in the shenanigans of what’s been going on in the Mississippi primary? Oy!
Trent Lott on Ted Cruz: “Cut his legs out from under him”
“I’m of two minds,” Lott said. “I’d like to be in the arena and help work something out. But it’s gotten too nasty and too mean these days. I couldn’t work with these guys.” …
“They’ve made their point,” Lott huffed. “It’s time to say enough and move on.” Referring to the die-hard tea partiers in the House Republican caucus, he added, “These new guys don’t care about making things work.” Lott noted that in the mid-1990s, he warned then-Speaker Newt Gingrich not to force a government shutdown. “I knew it wouldn’t be good for us,” he said. …
I asked Lott if his old GOP pals still serving in the Senate have lost control of their party. How do they feel about that? I inquired. Lott shook his head: “That Ted Cruz. They have to teach him something or cut his legs out from under him.”
That and maybe to put some distance between Lott, who did quite well with the aid of corrupt MS politics, and the crumbling Barbour machine.
Exactly! This article misses the whole point of the outrage.
"Reaching out to black Democrats" sounds like they were riding My Little Pony to the Island of Interracial Bipartisanship.
They were using racial animosity, slurs and cold cash to lure ineligible blacks to vote illegally after they had already voted in the Democratic primary.
Another “we need to surrender all our core principles to the democrats to get things done. Those tea party guys won’t budge from their core principles and will actually call us out on our records and deal making with the democrats! These guys aren’t team players and are too mean spirited! Why can’t they see reason like Chuck Schummer and Harry Reid!”
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