[Islander7]

“More than likely people will turn them out in 2011 in this state,” Franks said. “They’ve been coaching the team for eight years, and what have we seen? Our budget in crisis, unemployment rising and people who have not been good stewards of the public’s dollars . . ."

[Islander7]

Magnolia State Ping!

[dixiechick2000]

2011, baby! It’s happening!

Believe...and work your butts off to make it happen!

[MuttTheHoople]

For years, the problem with the Mississippi State GOP has been that they preferred working on the "glamorous" elections like Governor and President, and ignoring the races like County clerk and Supervisor. I know a lot of politicians down here who became Democrats simply because they offered more money to their races than the Republicans. Also, the Mississippi GOP tends to be rather snobby and condescending to us "WalMart Conservatives".

However, I think that's changing. I'm hoping that the GOP can get a candidate to replace Northern District commissioner Bill Minor, who died Election Day of a Heart Attack. Minor was a Dem, and helped select Butch Brown as Miss. Dept. of Transportation Director. Butch Brown "allegedly" savagely attacked Police and Security people in a Biloxi Casino after a night of partying and gambling on the penny-slots....yet, he was allowed to retain his position as Director in spite of disgracing MDOT, the State of Mississippi, and AASHTO (of which he is currently the Head).

[November 2010]

Local offices are a great focus for Tea Party types. They are the training grounds for the left wing Coons, Feingold types and they do matter . . . and they do get too little attention paid to them. Palin’s first step in politics was a city council.

[LibLieSlayer]

dims in Jackson are every bit as stupid and evil as peloser and “chavez” reid. I hope we can run the out of the State!

LLS

[vetvetdoug]

The GOP needs to take over and eject Billy McCoy out of the Speaker's seat. McCoy and his ilk have proposed sweeping tax increases in the legislature as of yesterday.

[wardaddy]

With a near 40% black population that votes 98 percent Democrat that means around 83% of whites have to vote GOP for a majority.

We do this time and again down here in national races and statewide races.

I have just one question?

Can the northerners and others here who sneer at us as racists down here day after day look after their own kitchen in an even remotely similar fashion?

No, even in border southern States like Tennessee and North Carolina they can’t and even in vaunted Utah and Wyoming they don’t either.

Whites in Mississippi and Alabama are the most conservative people in the country..always have been socially and you know why. We live at the front lines of all this social engineering and the waste it’s laid and the dangers it presents and understand the implications in ways those here even on this forum will never grasp...because they have the liberty of not having to.

(native Mississippian, now a border state southerner..TN)