Posted on 06/25/2014 5:05:43 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The win of Sen. W. Thad Cochran over state Sen. Christopher B. McDaniel in the June 24 GOP Mississippi Senate Primary runoff by less than 5,000 votes is a pyrrhic victory for the Republican establishment.
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Closing open primaries is the only way to keep this from happening again.
Yes. One of our problems is that too many people vote their wallets. That will never end well.
The republican voting bloc is your vehicle.
The GOPe is currently the driver.
The socialist RATs are the enemy.
Your proposal amounts to destroying your own vehicle and becoming a pedestrian, so the RATs can now run over you.
You need to change the driver.
I am ready to volunteer my services to drive Childers voters to the polls
by the bus loads in MS.
What you propose is to continue to vote for liberal republicans and continue the destruction of the Republic.
/johnny
The driver has a gun and is shooting his own passengers.
The real question is...in the road where you can at least run away, or in the car with the madman with a gun?
Would you vote for the Democrat for Senate in Miss or KY? Would you do that, knowing that in doing so you are ratifying all the evil in the Democrat platform? Would you pull that lever?
Yep — especially in a runoff election.
That makes no sense.
Because the gop senate committee knocked on 65,000 democrat doors to get them out to vote for the RINO.
WITH YOUR DONATIONS
What I won't do is cut the liberal republicans any slack. They MUST be politically destroyed.
/johnny
Contest illegal behavior certainly, but not legal behavior we don’t like. If in MI it’s legal for voters who didn’t vote in the primary to then vote in the primary runoff, then I don’t think it’s sleazy for voters to strategically take advantage of that option to optimize the chances of their candidate in November. I remember thinking about voting for Jesse Jackson in the GA Dem primary to impede Bill “Come Back Kid” Clinton’s path to the nomination. I couldn’t make myself do it then, but I sure would now if it were legal.
If I lived there I would not vote for the race or would vote democrat if McDaniel loses his challenges and doesn’t run as write-in. I have relatives there, but one is an ex-Uncle who I don’t get along with. I don’t really talk to them much anymore after the 2009 divorce from my Aunt.
“...but this is a long “war”...”
Absolutely. It’s been going on since at least 1913 in this country...
“..We were not going to change this country overnight...”
It took just six years to start undoing this country. From 2009 to right where we are now. Time is not a luxury we have.
As I don’t live in Mississippi, I have little input to the situation there. But every seat is critical, and I truly believe we need to fight for every single one we can.
Keeping Cochran where he is just allows him to stick you in the back at the most opportune - and probably critical - moment.
Just a different view, friend.
This is “bug” that Conservatives need to correct ASAP.
We should have done this after the Akin fiasco in 2012.
Has any of our “Tea Party PACs” prepared a list of states which permit or require this adulteration of the votes of real, registered Republicans?
Once we know where to focus our work — we can get started!
Good, I fully support that effort.
I'm not a republican. I'm a conservative.
Well, that's fine, except you need voters to pull off your coup, and they ARE Republicans. There is no "conservative" party.
The precious and unprincipled "independents" don't know what they believe in.
I give you Jesse Ventura and Angus King.
Those votes (and lack of votes) can and will be used to destroy the liberal GOP.
The GOP did it to itself. It has run off many conservative voters. Enough to vote (or not vote) as a bloc.
/johnny
Probably right.
You could go to Republican Caucuses, that excludes RATs and know-nothing unenrolleds.
It doesn't cost much, and it cuts out the federal and state mandates as they are conducted and funded by the County Committees.
The GOP bankrolled a robocall that called me racist for not supporting Obamacare.
Tell me again why I should support them in anything?
If Cochran is elected, can he be “re-called”?
If so, wouldn’t that allow Mississippi’s Republican Governor to appoint McDaniel?
Let’s not allow the Democrats to use a dirty trick to keep Harry Reid in power....
You make too much sense. A lot of it has to do with the state in question, in this case, MO.
Another poster said something I have noticed since coming to live in the South: voters here may be somewhat more socially conservative, but economically, they’re very leftist and really like the idea of big government and its handouts. And this is true not only of the black voters, although it may be particularly true among them, but of a lot of the rural white voters as well.
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