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Horowitz: This Is Treachery
breitbart.com ^ | 6/25/14 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 06/25/2014 10:30:33 AM PDT by cotton1706

In light of last night’s election results in Mississippi, there is one question every conservative should be asking: how much longer can a party survive when its leadership is inexorably against the ethos of its base?

While Democrats harness their base supporters to advance the party’s liberal agenda, the Republican establishment works to undermine and disenfranchise its own base the minute they have pocketed their support in the general election. Now, after actively campaigning for Democrat votes in order to win against conservative Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, the GOP establishment has reached a new low in their treachery against those who embody the heart and soul of the party.

Based on the preliminary election results, it appears that the well-oiled campaign by the NRSC and Haley Barbour to turn out Democrat votes was more than enough to make the difference in last night’s primary. With roughly 60,000 more votes cast in the runoff than the primary, and an unprecedented surge in Democrat counties and precincts, it is almost certain that Chris McDaniel won the GOP vote while losing overall by about 6,400 votes.

Campaigning openly for Democrat votes in a GOP primary using issues and arguments contrary to the party platform is one thing. But the fact that they played the race card and ran mailers and robo calls in African American areas accusing their own party of being racist is downright despicable.

Hence, the NRSC and the GOP establishment essentially marshalled Democrat support to beat conservative voters in order to reelect an ineffective incumbent who is barely lucid and will very possibly never serve out his term.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barbour; cochran; elections; racism
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In the study of the history of government and power struggles, what happened yesterday is nothing new.

The question before us is "do we reward such behavior with another vote?"

My answer would be no. And I came to that conclusion some time ago (and have caught hell with many FReepers here because of it).

Basically, in the parlance of our times, voting for those who betray you is AMNESTY, though most would call it COMPREHENSIVE SENATE POPULATION REFORM, i.e. "we have to win back the Senate!"

By voting for such men as John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Scott Brown, Thad Cochran, etc., you are essentially saying, "what you did is perfectly ok and you will have our support because you were clever enough to put an "r" next to your name."

1 posted on 06/25/2014 10:30:33 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

In Mississippi, would write-ins be permitted in the November election?


2 posted on 06/25/2014 10:32:49 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: cotton1706

Could he be immediately recalled? Just start the process tomorrow? It would send the right message.


3 posted on 06/25/2014 10:36:49 AM PDT by Advil000
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To: cotton1706

save for later


4 posted on 06/25/2014 10:37:23 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: cotton1706

A lot of Freepers apparently enjoy being spit on, pissed on and sh$t on.
The more they get dumped on the more excited they get.

Like you, I don’t get my kicks from being dumped on by my own party.


5 posted on 06/25/2014 10:37:35 AM PDT by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Cochran And Boss Hogg.)
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To: cotton1706

Everyone is misinterpreting what happened last night.

Last night was a TEST for Hillary’s campaign.

Hillary is running third party, the “Third Way”.

Last night was a test to see if the black drones that vote democrat and only democrat could be convinced to vote for someone other than a dem.

If the black drones can be convinced to vote republican they can be convinced to vote third party for Hillary.

The test worked.


6 posted on 06/25/2014 10:37:50 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: SumProVita

I’ve read that a write-in is possible and permitted. I’d encourage it. Every conservative could vote for McDaniel and Cochran could then be free to get reelected with the moderates and democrats he loves so much.

And may the best man win!


7 posted on 06/25/2014 10:37:51 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706

Time to stop voting Straight Party Ticket!


8 posted on 06/25/2014 10:38:49 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Advil000

“Could he be immediately recalled? Just start the process tomorrow? It would send the right message.”

It’s a Federal office. Recall isn’t possible.


9 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:09 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706

Republican congress, esp senators, with a long history in the senate, have a machine. They are IN.

they know that Cantor’s ousting in Virginia, of all states, the majority leader, first time in history, is the true temperature out there.

Working to change that is like steering a battleship, and it can’t be done by just one person.


10 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:38 AM PDT by stanne
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To: cotton1706

Still too soon to start shooting?


11 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:45 AM PDT by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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To: cotton1706

Aside from the fact they are corrupt, what really drives the treachery in this DC establishment GOP, money or fear for theirs or a family members lives?? Could it be both given the world’s oligarchs commonly rule by offering the option of lead or silver?


12 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:52 AM PDT by drypowder
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Nov is going to be a problem......just saying.
13 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:54 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: cotton1706
It’s generally agreed that Thad Cochran squeaked out a win in Mississippi last night in part by getting Democrats, especially African Americans, to turn out. Here’s a flier that was distributed in heavily black precincts suggesting how he accomplished this:


from article http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381187/flier-got-thad-cochran-elected-john-fund

14 posted on 06/25/2014 10:39:57 AM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: tennmountainman
Like you, I don’t get my kicks from being dumped on by my own party

Better your enemy is out front, where you can see them, and that you won't be getting stabbed in the back by the GOPe candidate. Not only that, but with the dims in office, we know what we're getting and we'll get where we're headed a whole lot sooner. I, for one, am done with the lesser of evils. Perhaps the GOP will listen to the deafening silence of the lack of our support. Perhaps.

15 posted on 06/25/2014 10:41:23 AM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: cotton1706

More than that. If the GOP in Mississippi had asked for the run off to be closed, Mississippi was bound by law to do so.


16 posted on 06/25/2014 10:41:39 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: tennmountainman

At this point, with so much evidence of GOP perfidy....I can only call it, “Battered Wife Syndrome”.


17 posted on 06/25/2014 10:41:59 AM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: cotton1706

I’m not rewarding the GOP with jack.


18 posted on 06/25/2014 10:43:49 AM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: cotton1706

I remember when George Wallace ran on a third party ticket. He said there was not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties.

The odd thing is there wasn’t a dimes worth of difference between Wallace and them either.


19 posted on 06/25/2014 10:43:54 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: tennmountainman

Dave W on the other hand, along with several others, LOVE the smell of RINO turd as it drips down his face.


20 posted on 06/25/2014 10:44:33 AM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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