Posted on 10/21/2018 5:48:48 AM PDT by Nextrush
"Cindy Hyde-Smith has been lying to the Mississippi voters, telling them that she can't debate because of her schedule, when in reality she's not doing it because she lacks the ability to answer difficult questions about her years as a DC lobbyist and her Democrat past"
Conservative candidate Chris "Remember Mississippi" McDaniel comments on the Special Election campaign for a US Senate seat in Mississippi
In 2014 veteran Washington insider Senator Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) was forced into primary runoff with State Senator Chris McDaniel. The younger more conservative McDaniel looked like a winner but the dirty tricks were rolled out by Haley Barbour and the GOP insiders.
Barbour's tactics helped defeat Ronald Reagan in his quest for the Republican Presidential Nomination at the 1976 convention in Kansas City. The process was something Reagan called "the world with its pants down".
Money was poured into Democrat operatives in the African-American community and ads rolled out designating Chris McDaniel as a racist.
The disgust with the Republican Establishment led to a battle cry of "Remember Mississippi" as McDaniel was trashed and outvoted by the importation of Democrat voters into the Republican primary runoff.
Cochran won, but his age and health would not be allowing him to serve a full term so he bowed out early this year and Governor Phil Bryant opted to appoint Cindy Hyde-Smith as US Senator in April.
Hyde-Smith was a former Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton for President in 2008, then opted for a party switch to Republican so she could run for statewide office as Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce.
Then it was decided to create a special election set up that would create an "Open Primary" on November 6th with a runoff of the top two vote getters three weeks later.
Its in this system that two Democrats including former Clinton Administration Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and the Conservative Republican Chris McDaniel were put into a race with the appointed US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
This enabled Hyde-Smith to be part of the mid-term general election campaign as an incumbent and be endorsed by President Donald J. Trump.
Trump told the crowd that a vote for Cindy Hyde-Smith was a vote for him but the hall was filled with many wearing red t-shirts saying "Trump Voter for Chris McDaniel".
McDaniel has been pointing out Hyde-Smith's record as a "Republican" including advocating to ban firearms on state properties under her control as Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and her vote last May against balancing the federal budget.
During the campaign Hyde-Smith has refused to debate McDaniel and other opponents going so far as to claim McDaniel might not be "civil" during a debate.
Hyde-Smith has even said:
"We won't be bullied"
in response to McDaniel's calls for a debate.
It looks like a vote for Cindy Hyde-Smith is a vote for the "swamp" but a vote for Chris McDaniel will vindicate a true conservative who's been demonized by the "swamp" in the worst possible way and send the Establishment a message.
Don’t split the GOP vote!
That’s right, vote for the Republican candidate in the four way race, with two Democrats also running and a RINO who switched party from Democrat to advance her political career.
I agree, don’t vote for the Democrat in the R jersey, vote for the real conservative, Chris McDaniel.
Mississippi politicians are trained to be Retail Politicians- inside players who make backroom deals. While this is great for getting a new building added to one of our military bases, it doesn't lend itself to Leadership.
There's a reason the only President to ever come from Mississippi was Jefferson Davis- Mississippi politiicans are horrible Leaders, lack vision, are venal and petty.
As long as they're backbenchers, they can be relied upon to vote the way their leaders tell them to. However, if given any leadership responsibilities, they inevitably choke. I have a lot of friends in Mississippi who are going to vote for Chris McDaniel. I disagree with this. Cindy Hyde-Smith might be a former Democrat, but being a Mississippi politician she'll always bow down to the Alpha Dawg, in this case PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. Before 2014, Chris McDaniel was a garden-variety State Senator who said and did whatever he could to get re-elected. However, he decided to use the Tea Party as his Schtick, and now he's a darling of the Right.
I would hope Mississippians would vote for Cindy Hyde-Smith, for no other reason that if McDaniel and Espy run 1-2, then all the Haley Bawbuh- Thad Cochran old-school Bourbon money and support will go to Espy.
Jungle primary, McDaniel has my vote. I live in Desoto county. Jackson thinks of us as TN except they want our big tax revenue. We don’t get the big state RINO talk radio up here. Bryant et all Can go to hell
The NPC Democrats march in lockstep. We allow the Roy Moores to cough up sure-thing Senate seats, and end up with the Kavanaugh spectacle as a result.
McDaniels should have let the incumbent take the seat.
I agree with everything that Nextrush wrote - but it's time to play as a team instead of a herd of cats.
Chris McDaniel has not done himself any favors (I worked hard to try to get him elected and was as pissed off as anyone here in Mississippi but he has periodic bouts of the "whines" over the last year) and Trump has endorsed Hyde-Smith....he doesn't do anything without a specific purpose and we have already proved what happens when we buck him instead of support him...trying to go all concern-troll on us and help the Dems some more?
Per my tagline, what value do you put on your opinions?
Vote for the guy Trump endorsed, it is his agenda.
The guy that Trump endorsed will advance Trump’s agenda, that is what is important.
We cannot afford another Ala.!
Ford won more primaries, more popular votes and more delegates, so he was the likely nominee.
Barbour did run Ford's campaign in the Southeast after the convention, but his website says he supported Reagan before the convention.
Maybe there was something else going on that isn't well known today, or maybe the writer confused Haley Barbour with someone else.
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Haley Barbour ha always been a major malefactor.
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James Baker III and Paul Manafort ran Ford’s convention delegate campaign against Reagan.
Manafort’s convention rules expertise was what Trump hired him for.
Trump endorsed McCain and Romney.
They are opposed to the agenda.
GO MCDANIEL !
McCain stabbed him in the back, Romney will toe the line since there will be more Trump Senators.
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