Conservatives' Crummy Dilemma in MS Senate Race

American Clarion ^ | October 29, 2014 | Gina Miller

[WXRGina]

After the Mississippi Supreme Court last week refused to hear MS State Senator Chris McDaniel’s appeal of a lower court’s dismissal of his challenge to the fraud-riddled Republican Senate primary run-off election, conservatives in Mississippi are now bereft of our chosen nominee, Chris McDaniel. Conservatives and Republicans in this state twice voted as a majority for Chris McDaniel to be our nominee for the Senate.

In the original Republican primary election, Senator McDaniel defeated U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, but he didn’t get the required fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run-off. After a detestable, slimy—and possibly criminal—run-off campaign undertaken by the desperate Haley Barbour-Thad Cochran machine, Chris McDaniel still got nearly sixty percent of the Republican vote. But Cochran “won,” because of Democrats voting in the Republican primary run-off, even though many of them had already voted in the earlier Democrat primary election, which is illegal in Mississippi.

Since last week, many thousands of Chris McDaniel supporters are struggling mightily with how to vote next Tuesday or whether to even vote at all. After the wicked behavior of Thad Cochran’s campaign in telling detestable lies about Chris McDaniel and his supporters, along with allegations of possible vote buying and other gutter tactics, we are left with a terribly crummy dilemma. What true conservative would want to vote for Thad Cochran after his reprehensible actions? So, what do we do?

Before you knee-jerk that we “have no choice” but to vote for Thad Cochran, just give me a few minutes here.

I read an outstanding column by Ryan Walters published Sunday at the Mississippi Conservative Daily. “Cochran vs. Childers: To Vote, Or Not To Vote: That Is The Question” is truly a must-read for Mississippi conservatives who are still reeling from the Cochran-campaign-from-Hell and the clear collusion in the fraud-laden sham of an election by GOP and state officials at every level. In his column, Mr. Walters analyzes each voting option available to us: voting for Thad Cochran, voting for Democrat Travis Childers, voting for third-partier Shawn O’Hara, writing in Chris McDaniel or not voting at all. Beginning with option one, Mr. Walters writes:

The first option, and the one pushed by the establishment, is for all McDaniel Republicans to let bygones be bygones and be nice little Republicans and support the nominee. Honestly, I’d rather work for a week at an Ebola treatment center without a HAZMAT suit than cast a vote for Thad Cochran. It’s simply unthinkable in my eyes, but certainly an option for many Republican voters, at least those curiously obsessed with taking back the US Senate from Harry Reid and the Democrats.

He then goes on to explain the flaws in this choice. It is commonly rumored that Thad Cochran will retire and not complete his next term, so a replacement would be appointed by Governor Phil Bryant. What we would get in that case is another RINO like Cochran, except younger, and he would be much harder to defeat than a newbie Democrat like Travis Childers.

The other choices in this election are to vote for the third party candidate (wasted vote), to write in Chris McDaniel in protest (wasted vote), to not vote (wasted vote) or to vote for the Democrat Travis Childers. To most conservatives, voting for the Democrat is almost unimaginable. However, Travis Childers presents himself as a “moderate” Democrat (a rare breed today, if indeed he is one) who has signed a pledge to fight against amnesty for illegal aliens and who supports a balanced budget amendment, although that is fraught with its own problems (see “balanced budget amendment” information here). When it comes to being conservative, Childers and Cochran could compete with each other—that’s how bad Thad Cochran is.

What about the argument that we simply must vote for Republicans to recapture the Senate? We can look back at the last time Republicans held the House, the Senate and the presidency. How did that work out for conservatism, freedom, and a return to constitutional government? It didn’t. How about that Republican opposition to every lawless act of the Obama Crime Syndicate and congressional commie Democrats? You would need an electron microscope just to see even a fleeting, atomic hint of it. Do you really believe establishment Republicans like Thad Cochran have any intention at all of opposing the evil agenda of the thug administration of Barack Obama (or whatever his name is)?

Of the we-must-support-Republicans-no-matter-what argument, Mr. Walters writes:

Does anyone really think it will be any different this time around? During this election cycle, the GOP has no platform, no agenda, and no ideas to speak of. Amazingly, they are not even running on repealing Obamacare anymore or against the administration plan to bring in as many as 35 million immigrants and put them on the fast track to citizenship. We simply can’t trust them to do anything about this lawless President. So far they’ve done nothing with control of the House and, without a new cast of true conservatives like Chris McDaniel, they won’t do anything with control of the Senate either.

And what about Harry Reid? He seems to be the personification of evil in the US Senate and a target for many Republican campaigns: Let’s rid the Senate of Majority Leader Harry Reid. Childers has promised not to vote for Reid for any leadership position, and although many might argue that he will surely go back on that promise, at least he has taken a public position on it. Has Cochran vowed not to support Mitch McConnell? Is McConnell really that much better than Reid? No, he’s not.

So the bottom line for a Childers vote is this: the only sure way to get rid of Thad Cochran and punish the establishment is to vote for Travis Childers. And in six years, we can replace Childers with a solid conservative.

I can already hear the screeching and derision from Republicans who, out of fear, insist that we have no choice but to vote for Thad Cochran, but I strongly disagree. Our nation is on the brink of disaster at the hands of communist enemies within, and going with the establishment flow has no chance of stopping them. Without people like Chris McDaniel replacing RINO fixtures like Thad Cochran, we certainly have no chance. Sending Thad Cochran back will not stop or even slow down the communist Democrat agenda. At this late hour, we may not be able to stop it anyway, but at least we would have a better chance of later defeating Democrat Travis Childers than anyone Gov. Bryant might appoint to Cochran’s Senate seat. What if he appointed former MS Governor Haley Barbour? We would have no chance of defeating Gov. Barbour later.

I have heard from many Chris McDaniel supporters who intend to vote for Travis Childers (not FOR Childers but AGAINST Cochran). If every Chris McDaniel supporter voted for Travis Childers, we could defeat Thad Cochran, because we would be adding our votes to the Democrats, including the ones who voted for Cochran in the run-off but who certainly won’t vote for him in the general election. We could send a clear message to the RINO establishment that the degenerate, sewer campaign by the Barbour-Cochran machine will not stand, will not be rewarded. This would not be an endorsement of Democrat Travis Childers but a repudiation of the slime and cynicism of Thad Cochran’s campaign (not to mention his big-spending, big-government voting record of 754 years in Washington).

Or, we could just go ahead and send the RINO Cochran back to D.C. to continue his complicity in the destruction of our constitutional Republic.

I say, “Remember Mississippi!” Say NO to Thad Cochran!

[mrsmel]

I like your explanation of how you plan to vote and why, it finally clicked all the pieces into place for me. I am going to follow your lead here. I don’t believe I could live with myself if Childers’ vote was needed for another CommieCare-style travesty, and he succumbed and voted for it, and I had voted to enable that. I already know without a doubt that I can’t vote for Cochran-that has been clear from the get-go. The actions of Cochran and his machine were just too evil. That leaves only one way to go if I’m going to vote at all, and you explained very coherently.

[myself6]

Vote for the Dim in this race just to get rid of Thad...

But DONT make the mistake that the Dim is ANYTHING other than a socialist prick.

Just be ready to beat him in 6 years.

[mrsmel]

After the major, central betrayal of conservatives by our purported “representatives”, who would possibly place any faith in a promise from them? Especially one to not do, that which was the reason for the betrayal in the first place?

[etcb]

The same pubbie party insiders who’ve done this in the primary are the very ones who have stated they’re opposed to closing the primary.

It is to be expected that those who benefit from the current rules would oppose changing them. However, they must be elected to their offices to have the power to control the rules. My point is that while conservatives clearly demonstrated the numbers to win in a republican only contest, we were defeated by a flawed system that allowed democrats to cross over in the runoff. We can now allow our disappointment and anger to cause us to play into the hands of our opponents or we can work at the local and state level to get people in the legislature and party offices who will change the rules. The old line party leaders are not going to willingly give up power nor are they going to be defeated easily. It is going to take hard work and a well thought out strategy. While a protest may give a temporary feeling of satisfaction, it will not change the system. We have to be smarter than them and quit allowing them to goad us into making decision against our interest.

[Paladin2]

The comment was a sarcastic "well that ain't gonna happen".

Given that the future is generally murky, I'd hate to have Cochran as my representative or as one of the State's representatives.

I find it difficult to believe that the Miss. GOPe would appoint Chris McDaniel. I believe that he is last on their long list.

[RinaseaofDs]

I wish I had a vote in this. Childers really is the only alternative. Anything else rewards criminal acts and reinforces the world view of the establishment republicrats.

[Black Agnes]

Cochran is living in open adultery. Even Bill Clinton didn’t do such a thing. I can not vote for such a person regardless of their political affiliation.

[WXRGina]

Thanks, WKB. There’s LOTS of us. For even more encouragement, read that column linked in mine from the MS Conservative Daily. It’s excellent.

[Din Maker]

...it should be possible to work with the state legislature to amend the election laws to make a closed primary system and prevent this problem from happening again.

You're living in a dream world etcb. No second chance. Thad has to go NOW! What Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour did in Mississippi this summer is beyond despicable. They violated, not just the Conservatives, but the every legitimate voter in the State of MS. One of the only sacred things we've had left in this nation was a fair Election. They stole that from the people of MS. They are no better than Obama and the Liberals who do the same thing. Just found out this morning 1400 illegals on the voting rolls in Maryland. So, now, we have Republicans violating us just like the Liberals. I feel like I've been raped.

NEVER FORGET MISSISSIPPI! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

[USS Alaska]

I will be first in line at the polls next Tuesday to vote for Childers. My vote is a total spite vote.

At least you admit that you are stupid and spiteful.

Good luck with them, thar sizzors...

[Mike Darancette]

Don’t vote for harry reid.

[Sybeck1]

Can’t wait. I will snap you pic of my ballot and post here next Tuesday morning for your viewing pleasure

[Din Maker]

there’s no such thing as a Conservative democrat
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Apparently you never lived in the South anytime before 1970. We were all Conservative Democrats. But, as Ronald Reagan said: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; they left me.” Today, duffee, John Kennedy would be a right-wing extremist in the eyes of Democrats. Yes, there is such an animal as a Conservative Democrat.... but, they are a dying breed from another generation before me.

[Din Maker]

Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour raped the Conservative voters of Mississippi and the entire sacred right of voting. Would you guys vote for a neighborhood child molester who was raping little children just because the other child molester in the neighborhood has been doing it for a longer time? If you can’t vote for Childers, that’s fine, but at least allow your Conservative conscience and principles to guide you to just skip the Senate Race on the ballot or write-in Chris McDaniel, even though it won’t count. That way, you are not enabling Cochran or Childers and on November 5th, regardless of what happens, you can look at yourself in the mirror with no regrets.

[WXRGina]

I take it you don’t live in Mississippi, and I take it that you are clueless of the massive outrage of MS conservatives at what happened here. I would also guess you don’t know the extent of the likely criminal activity of the Cochran camp and the detestable things they said about us.

Your spiteful sentiments toward us can be disregarded, because of your ignorance of our situation.

[GeronL]

Cochran is not on “our side” so voting for him is stupid.

Voting RINO is more like cutting off your nose than anything else.

[WXRGina]

Right, Geron. Cochran is NOT a conservative!

[myself6]

I honestly cant even imagine the twists of logic necessary to compare voting out a man who PARTNERED with DEMOCRATS to commit VOTE FRAUD during a REPUBLICAN PRIMARY that he was going to LOSE to a conservative?!

Vote for the Dim in this case or write in McDaniels name instead! Just make sure that bastard dies alone and jobless in the same facility he abandoned his wife to.

I certainly hope someone is keeping a list of Names/ IP’s of the OBVIOUS GOPe minions. Not only is a purge of the GOP needed but one is needed right here on FR.

[mrsmel]

That’s my plan. No vote for Cochran or for Childers.