McDaniel Blows it in Mississippi by Ignoring Blacks

Townhall.com ^ | June 30, 2014 | Star Parker

[Black Agnes]

It would appear outreach is a waste of time:

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_80.html

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_84.html

After 4 years of being president, Reagan LOST ground...

[Fantasywriter]

Hats off to your research—those links are amazing. Thanks for posting!

[tanknetter]

3 minutes between requests for a link? Despite your assurances, I’m not quite sure patience is one of your virtues.

;-)

[Fantasywriter]

‘Maybe McDaniel ignored Black voters because they’re Democrats who weren’t legally supposed to vote in a Republican primary runoff election!’

Thanks for injecting some perspective. It had gotten lost in the shuffle, it seems.

[Black Agnes]

You’re welcome.

I remember my jr. high principal, a black man, voted for Reagan. The day Reagan got shot he announced it over the intercom and asked us all to pray for our country and the president. I saw him about 15m later when we changed classes and he had tears running down his face...

Imagine that happening today.

[Fantasywriter]

No, really; take all the time you need.

[Fantasywriter]

Wow—what a story. And what a remarkable principal. I doubt you could find his like these days. But it’s wonderful that you had him back then. It’s moments like that which make a true, well-rounded education. After so much else is forgotten, the really important stuff remains.

[Zionist Conspirator]

She seems to be saying that there’s an untapped vein of Conservatism within the Black community, and McDaniels screwed up by not appealing to these Conservative blacks on Conservative issues.

I used to believe that until they crossed every line in the sand in order to stand with Obama: infanticide, homosexuality, high energy prices, hostility to traditional religion, Communism, islam. They simply don't care about anything but money.

As an old school Southern Republican whose ancestors fought for the Union, I used to admire Black people. I can't tell you how much I admired them and looked up to them. I don't admire them any more.

They have nothing but dollar signs in their eyes. They're worse than any greedy Republican capitalist pig that ever lived when it comes to worship of the almighty dollar. This is someone to be admired or courted?

I'm poor. There are lots of poor white people who vote "against their interests" because they can't stomach the Left's war on G-d A-mighty. But some other poor people have sold out and are implicated in it. And one day they will pay . . . not at the hand of any human being, but at the Hand of the G-d they sold for money.

[deport]

I’m talking about the difference between the primary votes that Wicker and Cochran
got versus the General election votes that each got. There were close to double the
votes between the primary the general.

There are lots of voters that don’t bother to vote in the primary but will come out
for the general for unknown reasons.

[GeronL]

Notice how they always want to make this about “blacks” instead of “Democrats”

[GeronL]

Appealing just to Mississippi’s conservative white electorate.

Wow... I did not know McDaniel only talked to white people. This author is a moron.

[Yardstick]

You’ve missed my point pretty badly if you think I’m giving any kind of credit to Cochran.

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Lakeshark]

What I'm saying is I think you don't have much of a point at all.

Saying move along, nothing to see here isn't really a good idea. To not confront what these fools have done en masse is to only invite more of it.

Good luck with whatever it is you're saying.......

[Yardstick]

I’m saying McDaniel probably could have helped himself by putting more effort into attracting black votes. That’s the point Star Jones is making. That’s the point several other posters have been making.

Of course that’s water under the bridge at this point. What needs to happen next is MS conservatives need to channel their justifiable anger into making sure a real conservative gets Cochran’s seat in the next cycle.

[Falcon28]

Star Parker is officially dumb

[Gene Eric]

>> until she learns to get her facts straight before shooting her mouth off.

Ignoring the gratuitous headline, how is Star wrong in asserting that McDaniel would have benefited from campaigning to a wider audience that would have included conservative Blacks?

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[Kaslin]

Maybe you need to look in the mirror

[Fantasywriter]

While you continue to search with great diligence and integrity for the link, allow me to summarize.

The Parker article is based on a false foundation. Cochran did not reach out to black voters. He didn’t speak in black churches, or do squat to persuade Dems to become Republicans. That kind of outreach has never worked, so why would he waste his time & money?

What he did was pay the enemies of conservatives to flip the Republican primary from the will of the Republicans to the will of the Democrats. I.e.: he illegally bribed liberal Dems, who have no intention of voting GOP in Nov, to subvert the Republican primary.

He also smeared McDaniel as a racist & KKKer. This was well known by the time Parker went to print. That she failed to mention Cochran’s ‘outreach’ included the most vile of all possible lies about his GOP opponent is unconscionable. That should have been The Story, not some nonexistent ‘outreach’.

Bottom line, you were taken in. You believed a secondhand falsehood, & spent hrs yesterday defending it. You should ask yourself why Parker had to invent out of whole cloth an ‘outreach’ that never happened. The day you can honestly answer that seminal question is the day you will taken a giant step in your understanding of why such an disproportionate number of blacks vote Dem religiously.