Article fails to mention the race card play. That was big, of course.
This is going to have long term repercussions in the same way the Elian Gonzalez situation affected dimocrat turnout in south Floridas Cuban community in 2000.
I predict cochrans seat turns dim in November.
The elites want a scorched earth policy? I think they are going to get it....just not like they expected.
I would love to see Cochran lose the general election.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Party loyalty and all that crap.
Screw it!
Mississippi politicians are very good at back-door, behind-the-scenes wheeling-n-dealing. Mississippi voters also like that their Representatives and Senators bring the Gubmint goodies home. However, the thing that gives Mississippi effective Congressmen makes for poor vision and overall leadership. It's no coincidence that Mississippi's only President was Jefferson Davis, a well-qualified man (led men in battle, was perhaps the best Secretary of War America ever had, knew all the nuances of federal government) but was petty, venal, and easily offended (not the right formula for being the first leader of your own country)....
This cheating strategy should be punished severely by conservatives in November. They should throw Cochran under the bus, as they were thrown under the bus in the run-off.
“Do unto others as you would have them do to you, “ should pertain to Haley Barbour in this situation. Boss Hogg thinks he can get away with this corruption, but he shouldn’t.
The article is attributed to Chris McDaniels, when the real author is David Drucker. At first I thought McDaniels was referring to himself in third person, a la Bob Dole.
I don’t think integrity and principle were ever even part of it.
Somebody here posted a flyer that Cochran’s people had distributed in black areas. It was appalling and I really think black people should be offended by the approach: Cochran will give you more food stamps, he’ll build a museum or something for MLK, he’ll give you more welfare benefits...meanwhile, it claimed that McDaniel had been affiliated with racist organizations, etc. (not true, of course).
So I don’t think it’s really the “big tent.” It was an utterly cynical, contemptuous pitch to gullible, greedy people whose vote can be bought with the offer of more food stamps and a little stirring up of racial animosity. Once upon a time, Dem politicians in Boston used to roam the streets at election time with bottles of booze, cigarettes, and dollar bills to hand out to voters, combined with dire warnings that the opponent was anti-Irish. It worked.
I guess the only difference now is that this new batch of pols expect DC to hand out the bribes and don’t even have to come up with their own dollars.
The GOP is, and has been dead for a few years now. Thank goodness because they clearly do not represent conservatives.
How???
by running as a Democrat and committing vote fraud.
C'mon, Examiner. You can do better than this. You need a better proof reader.
From all this, it’s pretty obvious that the Rats want to run against Cockroach rather than McDaniel.