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To: tanknetter

A politician campaigns. The more they campaign the better; I have never said otherwise.

Parker, by contrast, said Cochrain showed McDaniel how it was done. How Cochran did it was by buying liberal Dems’ votes on a one-time, illegal basis. He overturned the will of the Republican base in their Republican primary. He bribed his way to a victory with illegal votes. Parker says this is the roadmap & McDaniel should learn from it. She is egregiously mistaken. Candidates should sell their ideas to the entire electorate, but buying the enemies’ votes to overturn the will of the political party whose primary is at stake is not the way to do it.


142 posted on 06/30/2014 10:37:25 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Um, you really need to go back and read Parker’s article. There’s a serious disconnect between what she wrote and what you seem to think she wrote.

She basically makes three points. First the Cochrane Campaign clearly telegraphed what it’s was going to do. Second the McDaniels campaign screwed up by not noticing it and coming up with a counter strategy. Third, that counter strategy was to go into Conservative Black churches and sell Conservatism on it’s merits, as Reagan would have done, without pandering. Thus pulling enough Black Conservative votes into the election to counteract the Black Liberal votes being pulled in though Cochranes manipulations to swing the election to McDaniels.

The way I see it you and Star are actually on exactly the same page here.


149 posted on 06/30/2014 10:48:20 AM PDT by tanknetter
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