Posted on 06/24/2014 2:41:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
Should be another intersting night! Hopefully we'll build some more momentum!
Has been a contentious race all the way.
So close, but short, thanks to the lib-dems crossing over to skew the votes. Then they go back en masse, to vote for the corrupt lib-dem and beat our GOPe POS which we should have beaten. Open primaries and runoffs are BS.
Dear Lady, if we survive as a Republic, until the new POTUS is sworn-in, I’ll Ping you and we can begin cleaning-up the ruins and the restoration. If it goes the other way, and another leftist, marxist, racist, narcissist, psychopath is installed a POTUS, we’ll all have “The Fourth Box” at the ready, for the dark days will be upon the world. SHTF. WROL. CHAOS.
Good nite, GizzyGirl...
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Sense into me? That’s rich. You want a third party? That will lead to democrat plurality wins and rat supermajorties in both houses, country over in 5 minutes. That’s a fact. 1913, 2 thirds democrat congress, we could not survive that today. Single payer healthcare, banning talk radio, a nightmare.
Winning GOP primaries is the ONLY way to victory.
Outright saying you’d support Childers is just ridiculous, can’t you see the absurd irony “democrats stole the GOP primary so I’ll just support the democrat!!” attitudes like that make Harry Reid very happy my friend.
You wanna do something? Lobby the MS legislature to make sure this never happens again in Mississippi, close the primaries.
I like my nose where it is, if you want to amputate yours, go for it, but I will never agree and will speak out against it.
Is the General running to the Congressman’s right? Or left? Or is it not ideological?
“Lobby the MS legislature to make sure this never happens again in Mississippi”
Actually, you’re right. I was wrong. I am going to write a letter tomorrow to the legislature. In fact, while I am at it I am going to write a letter to Haley Barbour too, because he has lots of influence over the legislature. I am going to ask in a calm way if they would please close the primaries so that candidates like McDaniel can win next time.
Thank you for the tip, Impy. You have long been a cooler head that often prevails.
I appreciate that, Viennacon.
Believe me I’m just as disappointed and angered as you are but I’ve never been an emotional person. (Also about Oklahoma, 1-2 punch, but at least Lankford is ok, Shannon would have great though)
There’s another RINO who will try to appeal to democrat voters to win, the guy running against Tom McClintock (R versus R general election), he must not succeed.
So Chris didn’t concede?
I’d say these two are ideologically the same. Rayburn says he will be a better leader by being more vocal in Washington than Lamborn. If Rayborn wins, he better hip check that San Fran nan Pelosi out of the way for the media microphones.
Wow, he’s not, citing irregularities in the voting.
I guess a court fight may be on the horizon.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/24/cochran-defeats-mcdaniel/11341509/
Wish I could say I’m optimistic.
Thanks for the info.
100% in, Lamborn called the winner by just 4K votes.
That’s close. Lamborn should take the criticism to heart and step outside the quit mouse zone as he is in one of the safest cong districts in the nation.
re Elise Stefanik win in NY-21
She is not TeaParty, she is GOP-E. We will likely take that seat back in Nov (if Matt drops out), but this is not a win for the TP.
She wasn’t living in district, not paying taxes in district, moved to her parents’ camp from DC to run. Was put in place by Ryan & NRCC with a lot of $$ to push out an emerging TP candidate.
Rove spent $250K + to squash Doheny. Lot of money spent to make that seat GOP-E
IMO
Kate
It was so exciting to see Elise win by a whooping 20 points in the primary! She has spunk, and we need her pro-life passion in the House. She was endorsed by the Right-to-Life Committee, and the Susan B. Anthony list, as you know.
Claudia Tenney did very, very well considering she had so little money, and she can be proud. She said she will run in the primary again in two years, and I’ll support her again. Too bad she didn’t have enough $$ to counteract the many blatant lies against her from the Superpacs.
Terrible night overall, with a handful of exceptions.
Unless McDaniel can find 6,000 or so Democrats who voted yesterday *after having voted in the Democrat primary earlier in the month^ then he won’t be able to succeed in his election challenge.
In OK, it’s terribly disappointing how Lankford conned his way into convincing many conservatives to vote for him over conservative star T.W. Shannon, but I agree that Lankford won’t be that bad in the Senate. I hope that Shannon gets another shot at major office soon (perhaps in OK-04 if Cole retires after this next term).
In U.S. House races in OK, Patrice Douglas (whom I supported) made the OK-05 run-off against Steve Russell. Both are conservatives.
In CO, Beauprez won the gubernatorial nod by a 30%-27% margin over Tom Tancredo; I supported Geser, but Beauprez has a decent chance to win the general while Tancredo would have been a longshot. Meanwhile, Major General Rayborn came close to an upset of Congressman Lamborn; both are conservative.
In NY, huge disappointment in that RINO Hanna beat out Tenney for the GOP nod by 53%-47% in NY-22, but Hanna probably would have been elected in November even had Tenney pulled off the upset because he’s the Independence Party nominee and there’s no Democrat on the ballot (another example of a Democrat-RINO alliance).
But there were some bright spots in NY. State Senator Lee Zeldin beat George Demos for the GOP nomination in NY-01, which should serve to consolidate all right-of-center votes in a single candidate (Zeldin is also the nominee of the Conservative Party and the Libertarian Party). Meanwhile, RAT Congressman Tim Bishop (who is also the nominee of the Working Families Party and the Independence Party) could lose liberal votes in the general to the Green Party nominee, and I like our chances in what by all rights should be a GOP-held district. (As an added bonus, if Zeldin wins then the media won’t be able to say that there aren’t any Jewish Republicans in Congress.)
Another bright spit was Bruce Blakeman winning the NY-04 GOP primary. Now, Scaturro probably is a bit more conservative than Blakeman, but Blakeman already had the ballot lines from the Conservative and Independence Parties, so having Scaturro as the GOP nominee likely would have thrown the general to Democrat Jathleen Rice in a district in which we have little room for error.
And similarly, it’s a relief that Conservative Party nominee Elise Stefanik won the GOP nomination (and by a comfortable 62%-38% margin over Matt Doheny in the open-seat NY-21 where only a split Republican vote could cause the second-tier Democrat to win. Sure, Doheny might get some votes as the Independence Party nominee (and I share the hope that he can find a way to remove himself from the ballot, but traditionally the Independence Party pulls fewer votes than does the Conservative Party, and Stefanik should not lose many more votes to Doherty than the Democrat will to the Green. I also will add my opinion that Stefanik is more conservative than Doherty, although some may disagree because she received early endorsement from GOP establishment figures (whom some FReepers sometimes forget have the goal of beating Democrats) prior to Doheny’s late entry into the race. This is an almost certain GOP pick-up.
But the least noticed bit of good news for Republicans last night might be Nan Hayworth’s apparent victory over RAT Congressman Sean Maloney for the NY-18 Independence Party nomination. The race hasn’t been called for some reason, but Hayworth is listed as leading 52%-48% (IIRC) with 100% if precincts reporting. It was a very low-turnout affair, with about 1,600 votes combined, but if Hayworth indeed captured the Independence Party ballot line it would provide another bullet for her (and take one away from Maloney) in the November shootout. I think that Hayworth will have about even odds of retaking her House seat this November.
Hi Carriage_Hill!
Been monitoring the primaries including MS and the way things are going my dire predictions are starting to come true by each new day.
You are prophetic, Biggirl.
There are those who trust government to solve our problems if only their guy is in office. Then there are those of us who don’t trust government to solve any problems. Hewitt, Medved, Bill Bennet, Cochran, John McCain, Lyndsay Graham, Democrats, etc... all fall into the first group.
Beauprez is GOP nominee for Gov.
Cory Gardner is GOP nominee for Sentate.
Ken Buck was nominated to backfill Gardenr’s House seat.
And we watched the Rockies beat the Cardinals 10-5, which is why I’m just now posting.
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