Posted on 06/27/2014 5:11:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That's the root problem. If MS conservatives had really understood who they were voting for, McDaniel would have won. Cochran's scumbag tactics wouldn't have worked and he'd be a thoroughly disgraced nonentity at this point. He'd be looking for the first train out of the state.
The temptation now will be to punish Cochran by staying home or helping the Democrat win. The problem is that an underinformed conservative base will draw the wrong conclusion if the Democrat wins. They'll blame tea party spoilers. So not only will the Democrat have won, but the tea party will be discredited. It will be a double loss for true conservatives.
The real solution is to educate the MS conservative base. An informed base won't elect scumbag Cochran types, nor will it be fooled into blaming the tea party. That is the answer, but of course it will take work.
What the Cochran campaign and the GOPe did in Mississippi is beyond the pale. Had Cochran won legitimately without resorting to wholly offensive smearing and then whoring himself out to the Democrats — who would never vote for him in the general election — I would say, “Okay, he won the primary with Republican voters, let’s hold our noses and support him in November.”
However, he did not win legitimately (see above), so screw him and the repugnant Barbour and the GOPe who pulled his sorry ass out of the fire, and let the Dim take the seat.
I believe in honor, and what Cochran and Barbour and the GOPe did was the very definition of DISHONORABLE.
Not one dime’s worth of difference.
We need names. Otherwise, they all condone the filthy accusations and illegal voting.
I will never vote for a democrat and I think conservatives who argue for that point are out of their freaking minds. Stay home, write in a conservative but vote for a democrat? Patooey!
This is why I send my money to individual candidates and not to the RNC nor the NSRC or any other nationalized party group.
In Cockroach Cochrans case, it makes no difference because he has proven that he is actually a dirty dem, so vote the real dem in and punish Cochran. I’m sick of these Rove Republicans getting away with trashing conservatives.
“.... how uninformed are conservative voters in MS.”
It has less to do with conservative voters in MS than the Democrat crossover voters.
Yes, I think that is a good idea.
And I think that is all precinct level stuff. I think we may really need to start at the bottom and claw our way up.
Or else, 3rd party, which up until this week I’ve thought was a very, very bad idea.
But if Sarah Palin, or whoever, came out with an announcement tomorrow, I’d join right up.
I read that the Democrat Childers is very conservative, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment. I’d probably vote for him if I lived there.
Cochran needs to LOSE.
Tell your bosses to come take my money, that is the only way these corrupt neocommunists are getting anything, bye.
They are going to be very uneasy when they are finally deserted by us.
Childers will vote like every other Democrat once he gets there. So will Cochran.
Well-stated, Theodore R. Lots of work to do, educationally speaking.
Soap box (education), ballot box (results from an educated electorate) BUMP!
I don’t see how anyone can support Cochran at this point, nor vote for him.
Hey, I’ve voted for a lot of people I didn’t particularly love.
But the scurrilous tactics employed in this run off cannot be let stand.
Honest to God, do the Dems do this to their voters? Do they insult them and demean them?
OK, perhaps their policies ultimately hurt their constituancies, but do they do what was done in this race?
Informed conservatives would have outvoted the illegal crossovers in big numbers.
DITTO THAT!!!!
These paid callers probably barely exceed the minimum wage and many would have heard of neither Cockroach nor McDaniel. Some might not even be aware that there is a State of Mississippi. The American people are truly uninformed.
Mississippi politics. Two inseparable unforgettable words. A call to arms. Mourn for the Republic murdered in Jackson Mississippi
The GOPe is destructive...and doesn't give one DAMN about Conservatives.
You want to BLAME SOMEONE...blame the GOPe
It wasn't Conservative voters....!
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