Where's that Jackass you promised?
Posted on 06/25/2014 8:51:02 AM PDT by don-o
Chris McDaniel may have refused to concede the Mississippi Senate primary without a challenge, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appears to be moving on after the Tea Party suffered primary defeats last night.
“I certainly congratulate my colleague, Thad,” Cruz said on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, pointing out that the Republican establishment poured millions into the Mississippi race and only won by a thin margin. Cruz reminded the hosts that he did not endorse a candidate in the Mississippi primary, as he promised to stay out of incumbent Senate races.
But Cruz insisted that Cochran’s narrow victory should be a warning for Republicans in Washington, D.C. “I think that demonstrates that there is a lot of hunger for change. People are frustrated with Washington, and they're hungry for leaders who will stand up and make the case we need to go a different path,” Cruz said.
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Where's that Jackass you promised?
Nope, Reagan was incredibly smooth. Cochran did what he had to do to win. You and I do not have the power to stop Cochran from playing dirty. So, what do you suggest McDaniel should have done to overcome that and win in spite of it? Or are you Ok by calling Cochran a slimeball and live with the defeat?
McDaniel had a wonderful tool at his disposal which he did not focus on. TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY (TEA) is a message which resonates with 80% of voters. Cutting spending does not. So save the cutting spending agenda AFTER winning the election.
Not during the campaign!
My boy is McDaniel. Who is yours?
You’re assuming that banging farm animals in the south.... oh never mind :)
McDaniel talked more about cutting spending and hardly at all about Taxed Enough Already. The TEA message is highly effective with huge portion of voters. Cutting spending is not. If one wants to play the hard game of politics, one must use the most effective tools.
If Conservative candidate like McDaniel can’t win in Mississippi with cut the spending message, better change the message fast or else be relegated to defeats and irrelevance.
he lost because the GOP and Democrat establishments squashed him
The message wasn’t the problem
You can correct me, but I seem to remember that a lot of this open primary stuff had to do with the Democrat party in the Jim Crow South acting in the capacity of a private club, restricting membership, with the winner of the primary being the de facto winner of the election. So, any new party rules would have to make sure there isn’t even the appearance of any of that going on.
By your logic Dave Brat should have also lost?
He was outspent 50:1.
A good candidate + good message = Election Victory
was the GOP passing out fliers saying Brat would prevent blacks from voting? did they bus in Democrats?
And what are the ratings for Cochran’s democrat opponent in general from the same institutions?
I don't think that's what sunk McDaniel. It was the reaching out to liberal Rats and calling conservatives racists that did it. Your point is a good one though. Emphasizing TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY is a good approach.
And that's why we owe it to ourselves not to vote for GOPe candidates.
Who makes these stupid rules to allow Rats to vote in republican primaries? Don’t state republicans decide who gets to vote in primaries or is it the state legislatures?
You mean was Cantor passing out messages...to make it equivalent of Cochran passing out messages.
But why primary rules allow non-republican registered voters to vote in the first place? I have never understood that.
Look what they did in Mississippi. THAT is why they allow that.
Democrats and RINO’s are on thin ice... that’s the message Cruz was giving. And he’s right. Cockran’s ‘win’ was pure desperation.
I kinda think it should be a warning for Republicans in America's heartland.
It may well be that cutting spending as such is not the message needed in Mississippi. I would agree that Taxed Enough Already always makes a lot more sense politically. OTOH, these are mere money issues.
Finding each and every vote cast or word uttered by the farm animal molester that gave aid and comfort to Obozo works even better, or to Romney, Wall Street, K Street, and/or Haley Boss Hog Barbour, for that matter.
I believe it was FReeper C. Edmund Wright who posted the numbers from Mississippi last night. IIRC, McDaniel lost by about 6,000 votes and labor and black leaders delivered about 35,000 DEMONRAT votes to re-nominate the farm animal, ummmm, lover and slave of $$$$ interests.
Effective tools in politics in Mississippi???
1. Name one, just one, effective and memorable attack upon Obozo or his policies made by Thad Cochran who has had six years in the House and 36 in the Senate to practice his partisan rhetoric? An opponent like McDaniel should have taken Mississippi down memory lane on this one. Speaking of memory, Cochran looks like he doesn't remember winning yesterday because his mind is on permanent vacation.
2. Does Cochran even remotely understand modern military technology or does he satisfy himself and his corporate masters to just blindly appropriate maximum (and possibly redundant) megabucks and call his efforts "national defense?"
3. What did Cochran and his 42 years of seniority achieve and DO in resisting the Obozo NSA wiretapping program, wiretapping political opponents, members of press and media, and just plain Joe Citizen????
4. What did Cochran etc., DO to resist Common Core destruction of schools????
5. What did Cochran etc., DO to rein in fedcourts in his 42 years in D.C.????
6. Other than run his mouth occasionally, what did Cochran etc., DO to effectively resist Obozocare????
7. What did Cochran etc., DO to resist the appointments of Sotomayor and Kagan and others of their anticonstitutional ilk to SCOTUS and other federal courts????
8. What did Cochran etc., DO to resist Obozo's current campaign of rule by decree????
9. to infinity: Gun grabbing, babies, marriage, fudge-packing posing as "marriage," foreign aid, TARP and other Wall Street "bailouts," soaring energy prices, drill never, Vets dying of neglect at VA Hospitals, Utterly cowardly and feckless foreign policy, Fast and Furious, Lois Lerner, moving every person from South of our border capable of voting Demonrat into our nation at our expense while absolutely refusing to enforce immigration laws, etc., etc., etc.
More available on request. Any American not thoroughly furious and outraged by Obozo, Romney, Congressional Leaders of BOTH parties is no longer among the intellectually living.
Well said!
One of the core problems is that sew ever think things out to logical conclusion. More but still not a lot even think things part way. Most react like a Pavlovian trainee to the regular spin cycle and never look beyond it BECAUSE they were trained to NOT think things through.
I know you have some history as a political operative so that is part of who you are, Who you had to be to do your job. As for myself, I was the designated pit bull for the OHV community/businesses (too few of those really) against overreach by eco groups. So I also understand that one cannot just view a sole event/issue. We have the experience that a lot of freepers lack in getting down and dirty and knowing what it takes to ‘win’ against the insanity.
I think Freepers or regular conservatives don’t really need to be that far in to simply apply the knowledge and values they grew up with. That’s the thing many have to realize.
Point being? The things you listed are all things we read about here daily. People like us commit a lot of it to memory for future use because thatch what we were supposed to do once long ago. But EVERYONE can simply use the resource of the internet to look it up or print it to file.
But the key is referring to it and acting on and with that knowledge. THAT is the lesson many have to learn in order to fight back. Knowledge is very much, power.
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