“Thad Cochran does NOT deserve to be “rewarded” for his—possibly criminal—conduct in the primary run-off.”
You’re right, cochran, his campaign, the barbours, the RNSC, the RNC nor the Mississippi gop should be rewarded. There will be NO good outcome to this race as it has been tainted by those I mentioned above. I will not vote and give credence to a non-descript third party. I will not vote for a self-described “conservative” democrat, first there’s no such thing as a Conservative democrat using Conservative as it’s defined by Conservatives. A democrat who voted FOR “The Food Safety Act” and who couldn’t “make up his mind” on obamacare until they had the votes to pass it and his wasn’t needed, then he heroically steps up and votes against it hoping to hold a seat for democrats in a very Conservative district. childers is a snake but if he wins he’s likely to be re-elected and sit there voting somewhat conservative until the democrats really need his vote, like manchin. I will NOT vote for thad cochran, I’m still bothered by the knife wound in my back. I’m writing in Chris Mcdaniel. I know it won’t be counted but it will show as a NO vote on the Senate race, more voters than votes in that race. Those who count the votes, the election workers and the Republican and democrat party officials will be aware of exactly what’s happening. If there were to be a silver lining or good outcome to this election is that if cochran wins and the Mississippi Republican party realizes the damage they’ve wrought and works to repair it and our governor decides to NOT appoint himself to the seat when cochran quits and retires within two years and I believe he will. If the Governor would appoint a bonafide Conservative that’s not in haley barbour’s pocket, this could possibly but probably not work out. I vote in DeSoto County, in the primary we gave McDaniel 63% of the vote, in the runoff, with a sizeable increase in turnout over the primary, we gave McDaniel 70% of the vote. This is a strong Republican county and I believe the gop is not going to be pleased with the outcome although I do believe cochran will carry it. I believe the turnout will be light for a federal election and the winning margin by a Republican at the top of the ticket, cochran, will be smaller.
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.
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.