[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Hill - Aug 3, 2014: McDaniel moves toward runoff challenge

".....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....."

[C. Edmund Wright]

Dang, when Trent Lott is the voice of wisdom for the estabs, you know the establishment is clueless…...

[McGavin999]

"Courting" the black vote? Really? Courting? Does calling McDaniel a racist and making ugly accusations really constitute "courting".

If these guys think we are going to forget this they have another think coming.

[cotton1706]

Lott says this AFTER his buddy Thad Cochran is renominated.

[DoodleDawg]

"There is a little bit of a rupture there,” he added.

And Noah faced a little bit of precipitation.

[Linda Frances]

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
sullied
tainted
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[Opinionated Blowhard]

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.

[dfwgator]

Go away, Trent. I’ve really been enjoying your being out of the limelight. Why ruin a good thing?

[deport]

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?

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[maggief]

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/10/01/trent-lott-on-ted-cruz-cut-his-legs-out-from-under-him/

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.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He warned that the Mississippi establishment GOP-wing of the Democrat Party is ignoring the Tea Party wing of the GOP at their own peril.

Fixed it.

[IronJack]

Would this be the same establishment RINO Trent Lott who voted against convicting Bill Clinton when the impeachment reached the Senate?

Zero credibility, Mr. Lott. Zero credibility.

[Rockpile]

Notice that Lott is yet another pol who does not reside in the state he represented after he leaves office but instead remains around the District of Corruption.

[txrefugee]

This article is wrong. McDaniel hasn’t been “pouring over poll boiks” because Thad Cochrans relatives and friends are in charge in MS and they won’t turn over the poll books. MS is obviously as corrupt as IL, and that’s no compliment.

Cochran deserves to lose because he cheated.

[Sybeck1]

Phil Bryant has been complacent in all of this and I hope he is primaried and removed next election.

[trisham]

"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."

~Epictetus

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[SuziQ]

“I also have asked myself — after what I saw happen in Mississippi this very year — would I have that kind of challenge? Because I had been accused as someone who would make a deal, or [be] willing to compromise to get a result.

What Trent doesn't seem to understand is that Tea Partiers are not challenging the GOP for being willing to make a deal, from time to time. We're challenging the GOP because they have made it a HABIT! The GOP no longer stands against Democrat ideas; they are incorporating them into their actions on a daily basis. As a result, their 'willingness to compromise' has created the economic problems we've experienced in the past 10 years, and put this country into the worst debt position in our history.

THESE are the main reasons the Tea Party has worked so hard against both Democrats and Republicans, but mainly Repubs. because they are SUPPOSED to be the party of smaller, less intrusive government, and they've let that slide for far too long.