Posted on 06/28/2014 3:38:13 AM PDT by OldRanchHand
RINO Republican In Name Only is a term used to describe people who are not truly Republican, they just run as a Republican on the ballot to get elected. Is Chris McDaniel a RINO?
He claims he is a lifelong Republican, but
He voted in the Democratic Primary
Records show conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel voted as a Democrat in the 2003 state primary. Associated Press 11/13/2013
Chris McDaniel denied it. But, McDaniels campaign spokesman Keith Plunkett said it is possible McDaniel voted in the 2003 Democratic primary.
Mississippis Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann confirms it: I looked at [the records], and they show he voted Democrat when Haley Barbour, Amy Tuck, Tate Reeves and Stacey Pickering were running in the Republican Primary. They also show he didnt vote in the presidential election in 2004 when Bush was running and didnt vote in the Republican Primary in 2008.
So, Chris McDaniel says he is a lifelong Republican. But he voted in the Democratic Primary; didnt vote in an important Republican Primary, and when liberal Democrat Senator John Kerry was running against President George W. Bush he didnt vote at all.
Chris McDaniel, he says one thing, his record says something else.
Which Party Is It?
When Chris McDaniel first ran for his office in 2007, Ryan Walters, one of his top advisers on his campaign committee was just four years prior the Vice Chairman of the Mississippi Reform Party and served on the Reform Party National Committee.
In 2012, Chris McDaniel was a featured speaker at the Mississippi Constitution Partys State Convention.
And in April, when faced with criticisms of the Libertarian Party, he tried to make amends with that organization, he said, I defended the Libertarian party on many occasions, despite objections from some on the political right.
So which is it, Chris? Reform Party or Constitution Party or Republican Party or Libertarian Party or Democratic Party?
Perhaps well never know, because as McDaniel said to the Libertarians, the longer I serve in government, the more my positions evolve.
Editorial
The Carthaginian November 21, 2013 Editorial: McDaniel cant cry Liar
A few years back a new newspaper editor moved into a South Delta town and began pumping life into the local weekly with lively news that evoked some consternation.
It led to some serious name calling against the scribe, culminating, the story goes, with a elderly farmer walking through the door of the newspaper and inquiring, Are you the fellow everyones calling a ***-**-*-*****?
Yes, sir.
Well, the old farmer rejoined, aint nobody calling you a liar.
Chris McDaniel, Tea Party hopeful for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Thad Cochran, has taken issue with reports he has, in times past, voted a Democratic Party ticket or skipped major Republican Party votes.
After initial confusion in his reply, it came out that state maintained computer records did show McDaniel had voted in a Democratic Party primary and skipped a GOP primary.
That apparently being a grave insult to his conservative credentials, McDaniel or his mouthpieces countered that he had to vote Democratic to vote in local elections, that perhaps someone had struck a wrong key and his vote was improperly recorded, that Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a rumored GOP aspirant to the Senate seat, was playing politics at state expense.
The key now is, he aint calling nobody a liar.
LOL. Gotcha. Some other poster made reference to a “she” and I was led down the primrose path...
What happened to Old Raunchy Hind? Tossed out like last years underwear?
He done blowed up real good!
I realize voting records exist.......it was a bit of sarcasm :)
Seems like you either blindly drink the Kool-Aid or are a plant.
I guess you right, but in a way it stinks.
Seems like most of the trolls sign up in an election year.
Thad? I thought you were out back with the farm animals?
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the
lightning ain't distributed right."
~ Mark Twain ~
” think it is terrible that they can find out who you voted for or even if you voted at all. “
THEY cannot find out WHO you voted for,
ANYONE can look at the county records for all elections. It shows Who votes because you sign the register.
In the primaries, if you live in a state that has a Dem and Rep. primary you are identified as a Dem or Rep by someone looking at the Primary register of people who voted
Left ‘em back in the Mississippi that he so despises that he won’t even LIVE there... and yet he keeps on getting to be a Senator from the state!... it’s a mad mad mad mad world.
Oh! Thank you. That is not quite as bad as I thought.
Once you live in DC as long as Cochran has, you are from DC.
Truth be told, I think Old Raunchy Hind was in way over his head. Just my opinion, but I believe he was dispatched by the Barbour machine to come in to FreeRepublic and spread doubt among McDaniel supporters. He posts an old “story” from a bogus Barbour-supported, pro-Thad “conservative” website. Then, when quickly challenged by Freepers regarding his source, he came back with “go look on Google, it’s on lots of news sources.” Unfortunately for Old Raunchy Hind, those news sources were regurgitating the original Barbour faux story.
Nice try, Old Raunchy Hind, but Freepers are a lot smarter than you!
well, it’s not a matter of being in dc all the time, it’s a matter of having effaced all mississippi residency. he lives with his shackup gal in alabama.
barbour-boy took a haircut?
I'd say high and tight, but that would be an insult to our Marine friends.
Exactly. In Michigan primaries we get either a GOP or Democrat ballot. There is a record of which party we voted for and if we voted at all but nothing beyond that.
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