Posted on 02/18/2014 5:07:07 PM PST by onyx
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) may not know much about the Tea Party, but his primary challenger and the deep-pocketed Club for Growth are planning to introduce him.
Cochran told a local news outlet on Monday that he’s not that familiar with the grassroots conservative movement, which has helped produce a challenge to him in his primary election from state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
"The Tea Party, you know, is something I don't really know a lot about," Cochran said during a campaign stop in the state. "It's a free country. We have open opportunities for people to participate in the election process."
He also said he didn’t know much about McDaniel, who has received the backing of the Club, along with a handful of other cash-flush national conservative groups.
"Really haven't looked at his characteristics,” Cochran said when asked about McDaniel. "I'm just running my campaign, based on my qualifications to continue to serve as a United States senator."
McDaniel, asked about the comments, said they go “to show he hasn't been in the state very often.”
And the Club for Growth seized on the remarks, launching a new Web ad that juxtaposes Cochran’s comments with a response from McDaniel.
“Perhaps it’s time for an introduction,” McDaniel says in the ad.
No siree... I truly am not testy or upsnt. onyx and I have had this FReeper bash Mississippi and our people in every thread in the past few weeks. We do not deserve that kind of treatment on this site.
LLS is precisely right.
I would have said something last night to the same poster but I was too tired.
Thank you dear friend.
I saw that post last night, but I was too tired to type another word...lol.
It does get tiring!
Shows just how out of touch these elitists are.
Powerful.
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