Posted on 11/19/2013 1:17:20 PM PST by cotton1706
State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a conservative endorsed by a litany of conservative groups like the Club For Growth, Tea Party Express, Senate Conservatives Fund, FreedomWorks, and Madison Project, is the tip of the spear in the latest Tea Party vs. Republican establishment fight, DeWayne Wickham wrote in USA Today on Tuesday.
McDaniel has announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate and is running for the seat that establishment-minded incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) currently holds. Cochran has yet to announce whether he will seek a seventh term in the Senate, but if he does, it could “shape up to be the Republican's Party's Battle of Bull Run.”
“The early GOP Senate primary warring in Indiana, Delaware and Colorado took place on the fringe of the Republican heartland,” Wickham wrote. “The fight unfolding in Mississippi is at its core.”
Jackson State University’s Institute of Government executive director Otha Burton, Jr. said this race could break the backs of the GOP establishment. "There's definitely a war going on in the Republican Party, and I think the ultraconservative message of the Tea Party has gotten some traction here," Burton said. "If [McDaniel] challenges Cochran and wins, it will cause a panic button to sound for the Republican Party's establishment."
Wickham quotes former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, once a chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), telling the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, MI that he thinks what the Tea Party is doing is a “losing strategy.”
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Trent Lott decided not to run after it became clear Missippians had enough
of him. Folks in Mississippi have had enough of Cochran, as well.
Look for Cochran to announce he is “going to spend more time with his family”.
Cochran has been in for 35 years? Since Jimmy Carter? Since polyester leisure suits?
We need to have a write-in campaign to demand that the GOP does NOT support senators serving more than 3 terms. Two would be preferable, but this guy has served 6 term already? Just get out of the way, already! Good grief! These people seem to think they’re owed something.
If you can’t get it done in 4 terms, nearly a quarter of a century, it’s time to move on. Term limits look better and better every day. That and blocking any executive branch employee from soliciting or lobbying the executive branch (including the military) for 60 months after separation.
Get a real job. We don’t need any more crony capitalists.
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