[fortheDeclaration]

Don’t split the GOP vote!

[MuttTheHoople]

Despite the reputation Mississippi politicians have for being whackadoodle firebrands, most are the go-along-to-get-along types. All they want is government money flowing into the State.

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.

[Sybeck1]

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

[trebb]

Trying to make another Alabama?

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?

[x]

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".

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.

[fieldmarshaldj]

GO MCDANIEL !