Posted on 06/25/2014 11:17:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is why the repubs should never allow an “open” primary.
The dems are known for using those to get rid of the candidates they don’t want to win.
CA did it for the first time this year .. and I’m thinking about making a big stink about it.
There is absolutely no reason for conservatives to vote for a candidate in November who is beholden to the other party
Defund the GOP
Someone could go into these neighborhoods and innocently interview them on camera and ask why they voted and did they intend to vote for Thad again in the general.
Then use it as evidence.
They’d need a platoon of bodyguards.
The takeaway is obvious: Primaries should be closed, and runoffs should only be open to those who voted in the primary that caused the runoff.
Update:
US Congressman Travis Childers, a white guy, a Blue Dog Democrat, is Cochran's opponent.
He's pro-Life, pro-Gun.
In 2010, he was endorsed by the NRA and by National Right to Life.
Most recent polls are 3 months old.
He trailed Cochran by 17% in March.
I'll bet it's a whole lot closer today.
You have a couple of lobbyists who want a particular guy to walk into a temp situation...where Thad retires in eighteen months and the governor has to appoint someone...a basically unknown someone. So, the insiders all rigged up this win for Thad, and their future unknown guy.
Given a choice of a blue-dog democrat or a guy who will be retired in eighteen months who pretends to be a Republican...I’d say it’s safe to vote for the blue-dog democrat. At least twenty-five percent of the time...he’ll side on the Republican strategy.
So, yeah....help defeat Thad in November and send the blue-dog onto the Senate.
Good luck in the general, Cochran. Conservative will desert you like you did indecent things with farm animals....
Cochran is probably more of a racist than any tea party member. His actions today prove it. He goes out and asks for black votes, gets them then claims they didn’t help him win. I wish McDaniel would have countered with his own racist ads pointing out how Cochran was from the “old” republican party who has always hated blacks.
Lobbyist are the main driving force behind corruption. The FF's never intended for the government to become a nation of the rich who can pay off and entertain them to be the sole ones with access to representation yet that is what has happened. I doubt any congresscritter themselves would contact Joe Citizen personally who is trying to petition them. Only a real high profile circumstance would get such attention. Joe Citizen will get an aide and likely an Intern at that. A written letter will get you a generic form letter reply sent by same or even a machine. However if a lobbyist calls they likely get a congresscritters personal returned call or appointment within an hour no more than 24 hours unless out of country.
Lobbying by professionals no matter the cause or organization needs to be stopped and our government representation restored to We The People. I have no qualms about anyone being allowed privately or publically themselves to petition congress in person or by phone etc. I don't care how much money they donate either. Let them do it directly. No limits needed on donations just open records of all donations over $1000.
The hired professional tyrants called lobbyist access needs to be ended though. They have turned our representative government into their own private political brothel retirement center.
Same game, this time he used liberal black Democrats instead of Conservatives.
See the pattern?
Now gitcher ass back under the bus!
The reason Mississippi and other deep South States have a run-off is because the Democrats were trying to prevent blacks from winning a nomination. If 3 white Democrats and 1 black Democrat were running, the black would get the black vote and win the nomination with 35 percent of the vote. The Dixiecrats put in a run-off so that the white candidate would then win. Why Mississippi Republicans kept this racist system is anyone’s guess. In all Northern states and Florida, McDaniel would have won the nomination with a plurality of votes.
Just what the Democrats have given them. Nothing.
Why are people still calling “black” people “African-American”? If they were born here they are Black American’s, end of story. It’s time to get over the “victim of slavery” attitude.
No, there is not, and I have a feeling Cochran is going down to defeat in November. I figure a small number conservatives might vote for the rat, but I think the majority might just sit it out.
I agree. There's no way I'd be voting for the GOPe's candidate. The GOPe needs to learn a lesson. If their guy can't win a primary fair and square, then they need to step aside. If they understand that they can't win in the general if they pull this crap in the primary we'll see a lot less of it. Teach them a lesson.
Another day, another code word.
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