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Judges 2:19
But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

What we witnessed in Mississippi was the most despicable political act in the histoir of the Republican Party. When the Party elites declare open war on the Conservative base and the Tea Party it is one thing, but when they stoop to reaching out to Democrats to crossover and use racial tactics that is something completely over the line. This simply demonstrates how corrupt and out of control this Party has become and in serious need of a complete overhaul. Thad Cochran lost that race and should step down and allow the actual Republican nominee to run against the actual Democrat nominee.

In Mississippi voters are allowed to crossover in primary elections which is a ridiculous idea and especially in a runoff, but this is more of the feel good politics we have seen to supposedly grow the Party. We now see clearly the problem with that system in that by possibly losing that seat due to the base not supporting Cochran. Due to allowing crossover voters Cochran and the establishment leaders of the GOP used the racist Democrat playbook to get Democrat blacks to vote for him and steal the election. The bigger question is if the Dems worked with him through voter fraud?

He sent some vile flyers in black neighborhoods and rallied the black leaders to scare the community that if McDaniel would win it would be the end of black welfare benefits. Cochran claimed since McDaniel was a Tea Party candidate he was a racist and would institute racist programs. This is unacceptable to call another Republican a racist and to rally the Democrat blacks and media by using the most disgusting accusation so you can maintain your pathetic seat.

If the Republican Party had one shred of dignity, no really, they would demand Cochran step down from the nomination and declare McDaniel the winner. This has severely damaged the Party with the base and will seriously dampen the upcoming election as we see once again that the so called big tent seems to close the flap for Conservatives and especially the Tea Party. As always they believe the completely false assumption that the elections are won in the middle when in fact they are won on the Right. None of those 7,000 votes that were the margin of victory will vote for Cochran in the general and if the people he called racist do not turn out then it won’t matter how many votes he gets from the middle, he loses.

The election managers for the Republican Party have destroyed the Party and are the reason we have lost all three branches of gummit for the past twenty years. Their continued attacks and abuse of the Tea Party has become obsessive and destructive to the point of alienating the base. This is the kiss of death for a Conservative Party that needs every vote to win. The myth is that races are won in the middle is just that, a Mitt. The race is won by getting your base involved enough to do the hard work it takes to get elected.

By the Repubs using the age old strategy of throwing everyone under the bus that dares to disagree or state the truth in an unvarnished fashion they have managed to lose every national election since Reagan. Papa Bush only won by lying that he would continue the Reagan agenda and GW barely won by saying he was a Conservative only to follow the opposite strategy of Compassionate Conservatiism which turned out to be Socialist Conservatism. His later attempt to pander to the Hispanic Democrats not only alienated him with the Conservatives he lost all of his defenders and the media was able to turn the entire country against him. This is exactly what the political managers in the Party do not understand when you cater to the middle you lose your supporters.

The main cliché in the general election is that elections are won in the middle when in reality they are won on the Right. The voting public is to the Right of the general population since it takes a certain amount of knowledge and effort to actually vote. If you only have around 40% of the general population voting then it must be for the most part a group who understands the value of voting and what it stands for. The further Right you move the higher the percentage of voters which to the extreme Right and the extreme Left you have nearly perfect voting, or would have if the extreme Right had someone to vote for as we just saw in Mississippi.

Other then the extreme Marxists who hate this country and vote out of pure hatred, the average voter is to the Right of the middle. This is why Marxist professors taught the Democrat strategists to move to the Right since they know they would never get elected telling the voters what they wanted to do to them. So after they were nominated spewing their Marxist dogma to their leftists they would have to move to the Right to go where the voting public is. Repubs mirror that strategy since it is the agreed strategy and have been taught that by their Marxist professors and tell their candidates to move to the Left and pander to the Dem voter. The problem with this strategy is you are moving away from the voting public at large and away from your most ardent voters and you are courting a group that will only vote for you at 1%. Our candidates spend 95% of their effort chasing the 1% when they should do just the opposite to win.

What Repub strategists do not understand is they are moving away from the voters while the Dems are moving towards the voters. The middle is going to break around 60-40 towards who they view as the most Conservative who in most elections is the Dem who only has to pretend to be Conservative while bashing the Conservative as a racist, sexist, homophobe since he already has put himself on top of the economic message which the Conservative moved away from. This is why Romney and the rest of the Party have lost election after election and especially in so-called Blue states. You have to put your flag on the Right.

To win elections Repubs have to stay where they are and direct their message to the Right and give them a reason to support them. They need to get them motivated you have to tell them you care about them and you will take their message to the gummit without hesitation. This will get them to not only vote, but bring you boots on the ground to make sure the rest of the base votes and will bring a larger portion of the voting public while stranding the Dem in no man’s land in the middle wasteland. The middle will vote for a Conservative they may not agree with on the social issues, but respect which does not happen to a panderer. The fact of the matter and we have stats to prove this, the further left a Repub goes the more he dampens his vote.

What the GOPe did in Mississippi to bitterly cling to power may have not only damaged their chances in that state, but may have dampened the vote around the country. In that election the establishment said they not only don’t care about the Right Wing, but will do whatever it takes to eliminate them from the public forum. They said they despise their most solid voters and will resort to calling those voters the most vile names to hold onto their shrinking power. They are playing a dangerous game with this country as they are willing to destroy their most loyal voters and lose this country to hold onto one of their own corrupt insiders. This is how far the GOP has fallen and needs to demand that Cochran resign to find their way back.

Pray America wakes up

Brilliant as usual and you are right we do have a center right country and it remains so.A recent Gallup poll verifys your post.
As far as miss. goes its a clusterfark. Heres some of the research I have done in the past few days its never ending.
Here’s what may be going on in Miss.Dirty politics at the highest levels.Haley Barbour in collusion with the Gov. of Mississippi.

http://mississippiconservativedaily.com/2014/05/27/thad-cochran-says-he-will-serve-full-term-others-do-not-agree/

Seems Haley Barbour just couldn’t stand to see his lobbying group go down in flames if ol’ Thad Cochran was not elected again.
trouble is no on expects Cochran,76,to actually serve out his term. So, speculation started who would be the man to replace him.
Seems it may be Congressman Greg Harper according to the link above and clip below.
Here’s a clip:

……..Shaver adds that he’s heard Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) is the likely choice for Cochran’s replacement, if that’s how it goes down, mid-term.

“I’ve been told that Phil Bryant likes Gregg Harper a whole lot,” Shaver said. “If you sit and look who in Mississippi is the heir apparent to Thad, again you go back and look at Roger Wicker and you say, again, there was nobody else that was lined up to do it. What I have heard is that is what the governor wants. He wants Gregg Harper in that position.”

Seems Barbour and family except for his brother who was a McDaniel supporter are perfectly willing to use the Miss. commie-dems to defeat a Tea Party candidate, McDaniel, or basically anyone who threatened his lobbying empire said to reach from dc to Miss.
Sick, sick.
Once this story gets out and it will, the war on rinos and the GOPe will intensify even more. The fat cats in the GOP may have paid a very high price to keep their pork alive in Miss.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3173636/posts

Here’s a wiki clip on Barbour’s lobbying firm BGR. This is big time and has links to everything, this is some serious stuff.

“Barbour has been described as “one of Washington’s all-time mega-lobbyists.”[12] He “was a wealthy K Street lobbyist for giant corporations such as RJ Reynolds, Philip Morris, Amgen, Microsoft, United Health, Southern Company, and many others.”

[13] In 1991, Barbour helped found the lobbying group now known as BGR Group,[14] a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm, with Ed Rogers, a lawyer who formerly worked in the George H. W. Bush administration. In 1994, Lanny Griffith (also a former Bush administration appointee) joined the firm.

In 1998, Fortune magazine named Barbour Griffith & Rogers as the second-most-powerful lobbying firm in America.[15] In 2001, after the inauguration of George W. Bush, Fortune named it the most powerful.[16] The firm “is employed by several foreign countries, as well as oil and cigarette companies.”[12] Its role in advocating on behalf of the tobacco industry has been particularly prominent.

[17] BGR also “lobbied on behalf of the Embassy of Mexico in 2001 to promote a bill related to Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This provision would have provided a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States, through family connections or job skills, without a requirement that they return to their home country for the requisite 3-10 years. This is what’s often referred to as ‘amnesty.’”

[18] “As part of that work, Barbour’s firm arranged meetings and briefings with ‘Senators, members of Congress and their staffs, as well as Executive Branch Officials in the White House, National Security Council, State Department, and Immigration & Naturalization Service’. Barbour’s firm charged Mexico $35,000 a month, plus expenses.”[19]

As of 2010, the firm remains one of DC’s top 25, but has seen revenues drop both in 2009 and in 2010.[20] Barbour continues to “collect payments from BGR through a blind trust, which was recently valued at $3.3 million.”[12]” Second most powerful lobbying firm in the US—pretty much says it all.

The voting public is to the Right of the general population since it takes a certain amount of knowledge and effort to actually vote...

I disagree. More and more voters, as well as the general public, want bigger government and more "free stuff." Couple that with rapidly changing demographics fueled by massive immigration, legal and illegal, over the last 25 years and you have the formula for a permanent Democrat majority.

- In the fourth quarter of 2011, 49.2 percent of Americans received benefits from one or more government programs, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

In total, the Census Bureau estimated, 151,014,000 Americans out of a population then estimated to be 306,804,000 received benefits from one or more government programs during the last three months of 2011. Those 151,014,000 beneficiaries equaled 49.2 percent of the population.

Also among the 151,014,000 who received benefits from one or more government programs during that period: 49,901,000 who collected Social Security; 49,073,000 who got food stamps; 46,440,000 on Medicare; 23,228,000 in the Women, Infants and Children program, 20,223,000 getting Supplemental Security Income;13,433,000 who lived in public or subsidized rental housing; 5,098,000 who got unemployment; 3,178,000 who got veterans' benefits; and 364,000 who got railroad retirement benefits.

Every cohort that turns 18 annually is more minority and more Democrat. By 2019 half the children 18 and under will be minorities and by 2043 we will be a majority-minority country. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign-born; today, it is one in 8, the highest in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7 the highest in our history. There are electoral consequences associated with these demographic changes. The message of limited government, fiscal prudence, and lower taxes doesn't resonate with the emerging new majority.

There is only one GOP politician out there that gets it when it comes to changing the way the GOP approaches a changing electorate--Jeff Sessions.

Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself.

"When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.

And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.

Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.

Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.