Ted Cruz: 'I Certainly Congratulate' Thad Cochran

Breitbart ^ | June 25, 2014 | Charlie Spiering

[demshateGod]

Cochran, a liberal, used a stupid system, an open primary, to get Liberals to vote for him to defeat a conservative. How is that like Democrats voting for Reagan?

[Viennacon]

The fix was in beforehand. Cochran plans to serve about 2-3 years, then retire, opening up the door for Bryant to appoint Barbour or Barbour-shill Tate Reeves to the seat. No actual election for Mississippians. They just want everyone appointed.

[P-Marlowe]

But we are proud for Ronald Reagan to get democrat votes? Reagan democrats good, Cochran democrats bad?

When Reagan ran all the primaries were closed. Only registered republicans could vote in primaries for the republican nomination. They have opened up the primaries so that guys like Cochran can betray the conservatives by getting liberal democrats to cross the line to bring him over the top.

Plus the democrats that voted for Reagan were really conservatives who were sick and tired of the likes of Jimmy Carter.

The democrats who voted for Cochran were told by Cochran that McDaniel was a racist.

This is NOT forgivable!

To Hell with Cochran. Literally!

[SumProVita]

How does that automatically include bestiality?

[lonestar]

Don't judge Cruz for being civil.

The people who supported Thad HATE Cruz...you think Ted doesn't know it... or cares? I don't!

[Fantasywriter]

‘The Tea Party may have had a defeat last night, but I doubt the GOP - Good Ole Pricks - understands how many bridges it burned to get there. In 2002, IIRC, Cochran got 85% of the vote. In 2008, he got 60%. In 2014, after spitting in the face of over half the Republicans in Mississippi, how many will he get?’

It was a Pyrrhic victory that will come back to bite them. The GOPe is shortsightedly turning conservatives into virulent, dedicated enemies. They will regret it.

[don-o]

Damning with faint praise.

That is EXACTLY what Cruz is doing here. If people would simmer down just a little. We came close in Mississippi and there may be some fight left there. At the very least, clearer lines get drawn. That is what Cruz is saying when he speaks of the hunger.

[Dr. Sivana]

Cochran should be ashamed for getting democrat votes.
But we are proud for Ronald Reagan to get democrat votes?

In 1976, when Reagan would get MORE primary votes than Ford, he did VERY well in open primary states like Indiana, and the deep south. He appealed to the "Reagan Democrats" who had conservative values, and were certainly planning to vote for Reagan over Carter in the general election. At no point did he target them as his base. Many of these people would become Republican later, and some of them are Tea Party Republicans now.

Cochran is turning the whole thing inside out, appealing to people who NOT attracted to conservative values, and making the pitch that the unfair attacks on Republicans who are not him were right all along. Oh, and he has no expectation of their vote in the general.

Comparing the Reagan to begging Scooby Doo for help (and who knows at what price) are apples and turnips.

[Viennacon]

Well, maybe Thad was doing drugs with animals or perhaps out late drinking with animals or maybe he was running a Nigerian email fraud scam with animals. That is possible.

[ilgipper]

Agreed. Cruz took the position of not going after colleagues in their incumbent races earlier in the primaries. He is staying consistent. He cannot accomplish anything if he does not find a way to pull more senators to his side.

[Black Agnes]

So you support a sinator who won using this?:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/06/22/thad-cochran-desperation-update-listen-to-robocall-from-pro-cochran-pac-desperately-asking-democrats-to-vote-in-mississippi-primary/

And this:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381187/flier-got-thad-cochran-elected-john-fund

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/06/24/Barbour-Admits-Dem-Support-for-Cochran-Bashes-McDaniel

?

There’s little difference between the 2 candidates in Nov.

Both support amnesty.

Neither will work to repeal Obamacare.

Both will vote for ‘reasonable gun control’ (mikey bloomberg didn’t donate 250K for no good reason!)

Both support commiecore.

Cochran has voted to fund planned barrenhood many times over.

Both support $17T in debt.

[leapfrog0202]

Cochran ran to the left to get dim votes.

Reagan stood for conservative principals and still got dim votes. Reagan NEVER ran to the left to get dim votes.

The dim votes Cochran got would have never voted for Reagan.

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Well said Black Agnes. Also Reagan never put out fliers stating that his opponent was going to prevent black voters from exercise their legal right to vote.

Nor did Reagan bus in Democrats to vote for him.

[TexasCajun]

35,000 Democrats, mostly African American, did…..and he won by 6400 votes

How many lied when asked if they voted in the Democrat Primary and voted illegally.

[Viennacon]

Im not condemning Cruz. I had the same criticism of him when he didn’t smack down Peter King (scumbag) during the shutdown. Sometimes being a nice guy only emboldens your enemies.

Cruz is far and away the best man on the Hill. No contest.
I have two criticisms of him.

1 - He should take on the RINOS with the same wit he cuts Demoscum with

2 - I did not like him confirming the homosexualist judge for a Florida court recently

[stanne]

Perfection is what they demand.

I don’t have an undying love for Ted Cruz. I think he’s great because of the evidence. He considers the Constitution in everything he does.... just for starters.

they don’t look at that. They think, oh, he’s a strong person, he can get us out of this mess, and they forget it’s a government by and of the people. No one person can get us out of it. It will take work from everyone.

Cruz is not going to foray into Mississippi politics. He has no business there. As a senator, he has to respect the voters’ choice, and, until McDaniel or someone proves that this was an illegal mess, Cochran was voted in as GOP choice.

Cruz is open minded enough to see what could have gone on there.

The perfection demands are unreasonable and illogical

[Black Agnes]

“Cruz is not going to foray into Mississippi politics. He has no business there.”

Then why is he a part of NRSC? Who’s stated purpose is the very thing?

[Gaffer]

I guess it’s etiquette to congratulate Thad and Ted is being courteous. However, I believe that Thad won’t have a fricking idea of what he’s talking about.

[mulligan]

Cruz should have said nothing.

[xzins]

I was a Reagan democrat who had supported Jimmy Carter in the previous election. I was young, and still establishing my identity as a voter, and I had supported, although not voted for Richard Nixon in the previous election to Carter. (Hadn’t voted because I was overseas and overseas ballot was a pain to a 19 year old me.)

What is different? Reagan didn’t paint Ford or any of his opponents as just recently returned from a KKK meeting the way they did to Chris McDaniels.

[Kenny Bunk]

He’s condoning

And his Senate Finance Group Funded it. WTF? Over.