Posted on 06/30/2014 4:38:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran’s successful game plan, which drove his run-off victory over Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel for Mississippi’s Republican Senate nomination, was unconventional.
But most incredible was the success of this game plan – to reach out to liberal black churches and get Democrat black voters to turn out and vote for Cochran – despite being executed in broad daylight.
Soon after Cochran lost to McDaniel in the primary, necessitating a run-off because McDaniel fell short of getting 50 percent of the vote, papers reported the intent of Cochran’s team to turn out black Democrats to overcome the thin margin by which Cochran lost.
McDaniel knew exactly what to expect. The Cochran campaign told him. Yet he remained a spectator through it all. His counter strategy was no counter strategy and just continue what he was already doing. Appealing just to Mississippi’s conservative white electorate.
Sitting in the White House today is the most left-wing president in the nation’s history, elected twice without winning the white vote. I have written about the demographic changes taking place in the country and the need for Republicans to talk about limited government and traditional values to non-white Americans.
If this is true about the nation as a whole, it certainly is true in a state like Mississippi whose black population, at 40 percent of the state, is the largest in the nation. Half this black population is poor.
Cochran’s forces dumped money into liberal black churches, communicating that he is their champion because of the government pork he’ll continue to bring into the state.
But a news flash for McDaniel, which he should know, having served as a state senator, is that not all blacks are liberals. In Mississippi’s huge black population are many conservative black pastors who want freedom for their flocks. They know that black poverty is not about government money.
A few of these conservative black pastors in Mississippi are part of the national pastor network of my organization, CURE.
Former NFL star Brett Favre made an ad for Cochran in which he talked about Cochran getting “…critical funding for our schools.”
But in the latest Quality Counts report from the publication Education Week, Mississippi is rated 51st in the nation, among 50 states and Washington, DC, in K-12 student achievement.
The report continues, as reported in Mississippi Business Journal, that “Mississippi ranked among the lowest 10 states in providing young people a chance for success in life, financing schools and improving teaching.”
If the success of Mississippi’s schools was about “critical” funding from the federal government, why are they the worst in the nation?
The main victims of Mississippi’s dismal schools are black children.
In a Pew Research survey of last October, 25 percent of blacks expressed favorability toward the Tea Party, just 6 points less than whites.
But the McDaniel campaign seemed clueless that there were potential allies in Mississippi’s huge black population to counter Cochran’s liberal assault.
It is pathetic that some commentators are actually writing that Cochran’s government plantation appeal to blacks shows how Republicans can reach this community.
In a scene early in the Oscar-winning film Patton, General Patton, who was sent to take command of the demoralized American troops in North Africa in the early days of World War II, is shown looking through field glasses, watching a tank battle which would become America’s first victory in North Africa. He studied the tactics of his adversary German commander Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. As he watched, Patton bellowed out “ Rommel, you magnificent b------, I read your book!”
Thad Cochran laid it out for McDaniel – he gave him his book - but McDaniel chose not to read it.
There are plenty of black conservatives who understand that big government politicians – Democrats or Republicans – hurt their communities. They just need Republican candidates to recognize they exist.
This might well be the dumbest article Star Parker has ever written.
Uninformed, stupid, likes race baiting slime ball tactics?
I have no idea what her thought process was in what she wrote.
I think she just was seduced by all those black votes for a Republican and either did not know or did not care how the Cochran campaign brought them in. Either way, it’s inexcusable to ignore the Alinksky-style tactics brought to bear against the Tea Party.
Thank you.. She is apparently unaware, or doesn’t think it matters, that Cochran said to the black democrat voters, “The Tea Party is obstructing President Obama”, and said it’s because we’re racists. He said that he wouldn’t do that.
What was McDNiels supposed to do, tell them “No, we won’t obbsteuct Obama, we want his agenda passed”?
It’s unbeleivable that any “conservative” would defend this.
Mine too, until she learns to get her facts stright bedore shooting her mouth off.
That's irrelevant because of the disgusting unforgiveable tactics Cochran used. It was the plantation owners telling the slaves how to vote. It was all-out no rules war against conservatives. People belong in jail and McDaniels should get the nomination.
And RINOs are still telling us to lighten up. I no longer think a Repbulican majority in the US Senate is a good idea. There aren't more than a half dozen Republican US Senators I'd want to be a majority of anything. They scare me.
Amen to every word.
Ms ping
Isn’t that the truth. Wh, why, why, must it always come down to this, even for a black conservative?
Yes! I am so sick of all this right now I could scream. You could give every damn one of them a house, car and a million dollars they would be back in less than a year saying it’s whitey’s fault that they are broke again. I say kiss my you know what!
I can’t figure it out, what she wrote is either willfully ignorant of the facts, or she is too stupid to see that the black votes were anti-conservative demonrats voting to muck-up the primary.
None of them will vote other than Demonrat in Nov!
How can conservatism be pandered to blacks, or other minorities, or whites, for that matter? Once pandered, it becomes something else. Of course, that isn’t a problem for Republicans who can pander with the same meaningless messages Democrats use. But they can’t do it with conservatism, because it isn’t demographic specific, or demographically flexible.
Come one; come all, but come on your own free will, and on your own dime. Shout it out in black churches, at the LULAC, in Chinatown or Wall Street, but the message remains the same. People either correct their thinking to the message of conservatism, or they don’t.
And wht kind of conservative outreach is it, to tell them that conservatives are racist and are obstructing Obama’s agenda, the unspoken part of that was “I won’t”.
I think people aren’t reading what Parker is saying.
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’ve read the article twice, and that sure seems like what she’s saying.
She’s NOT making the argument that McDaniels should have done things to flip the Black votes that went for Cochrane, but that there were Black Conservatives who didn’t vote that he could, and should, have targeted.
That’s fair, in my opinion. I know, am friends with, a number of Black Conservatives. They all say that the GOP, Conservatives and Tea Party would see a significant increase in support if they’d actually do a good lrvel of outreach. Parker cites stats showing that 25% of Blacks think favorably of the Tea Party. Does anyone not know what kind of impact it would have if we could get that 25% out and voting for our candidates?
Cochran didn’t appeal to it either, he actually “blamed” conservarives dor obstructing Obama, implying that he won’t. I don’t see anything praise-worthy in that.
YEP!
For how many years must we hear of this crap? We spend money on their schools they crap on them. We give them food all they do is complain. Give them free housing they crap on it. Sick of it. I can send a kid to school but I can't read for them. They either rise or stay in the sewer. We can't make them do anything. They will not listen to any white person.
And how much attention did Cochran give blacks prior to the runoff? Just curious.
Then you have to discounts Parker's assertion that there ARE conservative blacks in Mississippi that are receptive to positive outreach. It's Monday morning quarterbacking, but relevant for future reference.
It is the BACKSTABBING.
McDaniel did not deserve it.
Sen. Thompson did not deserve it.
Gov. Palin did not deserve it.
The Speaker did not deserve it.
There are lots of black conservatives, a lot of blacks are against abortion, but they still vote DEMOCRAT. That’s the bottom line. I have personal experience in this. When I lived back east in a sewer, the rats would go to all the black churches at election time and tell them they same tired crap they told them the last time. They lap it up and nothing ever changes and they keep voting DEMOCRAT. You can’t fix STUPID!
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