If I were in MS, the first thing I’d do is write a check to the Cochran campaign. The Democrats will be coming at him with the same race-baiting tactics he used against McDaniel so he will need it.
Along with the check I’d include a letter expressing my disgust with his sleazebag tactics in the primary, and I’d make it clear that I consider him nothing but a body with a vote, a placeholder. I’d tell him that in the next primary I’d be writing a check ten times that big for the tea party candidate, and then I’d DO IT.
In the meantime I’d be joining the effort to get the state to move to closed primaries. If I had the time and the talent for it, I’d be finding ways to organize my fellow conservatives. I’d work within the tea party structure or within the principled part of the state party. One way or another I’d be devoting my energies to making sure what happened this time doesn’t happen again.
Whining and being hurt and angry won’t work. Passive “punishing” won’t work. Third party daydreaming won’t work. Organizing and cleaning house will work. It helps to realize that it will take some time, maybe a few election cycles. In the meantime let’s not sabotage ourselves. Conservatives should be able to understand this.
I wrote the RNC through an email link provided on another thread. I gave my name for them to look it up. They know I've supported multiple candidates in the past, across many states.
Although I have never given to the RNC (I think we all know why), I wrote them a clear message: If they did not push Cochran to step down and give the nomination to McDaniel, I would never donate to another candidate, nor vote for another one of their candidates.
I think a lot of people have sent that kind of message. Trust me, they're worried.
I wish there were another way to do this without hurting conservative efforts to stop the bamsters machine of evil. I don't see it yet.
I have no Third Party to go to,... YET! I do remain very grateful to conservative voters in Mississippi (and now throughout the nation), who will happily cancel out not only your Establishment vote, by whatever means necessary and available in their state, but will also match your Establishment “check”, with one of their own against your Establishment candidates.
We got the message in Mississippi. Voters now who are *not* angry, but are instead enablers, are now known to all.
That is the point. We know now who is conservative and who is a Republicrat building the Uni Marxist Party.
You’ll recognize it when you get it built.
That's rich!!! "Daydreaming" is thinking that sending money to Cochran with a strongly worded letter expressing your "disgust with his sleazebag tactics" is going to do ANYTHING but advance leftism!
Organizing and cleaning house will work.
It might have worked ten years ago. YOU are daydreaming if you think it can "work" in two short years, in time for the turning-point general election in 2016. If it does, and GOP primary protocol is reformed enough nationally to nominate a limited government conservative, I will happily vote straight-ticket Republican (as I had done for 30-plus years until Romney in 2012).
However, I am not enough of a daydreamer to think that's going to happen. The key to learning from one's mistakes is to apply what one learns from them. Applying what I've learned now means that anytime the GOP fields a candidate who, if he won, would ADVANCE GOVERNMENT, I will vote third party, while many others who used to vote straight party like me but are now applying what they've learned, I can promise you will just stay home.
You are daydreaming if you think sending money to Republican leftist liberal enablers and voting for leftist liberal enablers, isn't going to help leftist liberalism. That the leftist, cheating liberal (Cochran, in this case) you urge Mississipians to support is a member of the Republican party, makes it that much worse.
Hello, Yardstick? WAKE UP, because you are daydreaming.