Posted on 07/01/2014 8:11:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Breitbart, a little casual racial demagoguery towards Chris McDaniel’s tea-party base from ol’ Maverick.
“Obviously, I claim credit for [Cochran's victory], but, actually, the reason why he won was that he had a really excellent get-out-the-vote campaign,” McCain told The Arizona Republic. “There are some people who are complaining that African-American voters voted. I thought one of the major priorities of the Republican Party was to get all minority and ethnic voters out to vote for Republicans.”…
McCain has not yet announced whether he will seek a sixth Senate term in 2016. But McCain has acknowledged that he would likely attract a tea-party-style primary opponent, and says he will be ready to rumble if it happens.
“The key to it is you’d better pay attention, you’d better work hard, you’d better organize,” McCain said. “And you’d better understand that there is a strong anti-Washington/anti-incumbency sentiment out there, which is justified, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. If I run again, I know what I’m going to be up against and I know that it’s going to be a long, hard slog. But I enjoy campaigning. I love it. And I love traveling around the state.”
Is that what McDaniel fans are upset about, that black voters turned out? Or are they upset that Democrats, some of them black and energized by sleazy race-oriented dirty tricks against McDaniel, proved decisive in a Republican primary, ensuring that the party’s nomination went to a guy who twice won fewer votes from members of that party than his rival did? The fact that McCain would stoop to this sort of stupid MSNBC-ish lowest-common-denominator troll to dismiss conservative anger is telling. We just watched a network of cronies prop up a feeble old man who’s been in Congress for 40 years by recruiting liberals to tilt a GOP election, and Maverick’s big comeback is “why don’t you want blacks to vote?” We once nominated this guy for president. Why?
If you’re thinking ahead to 2016 and wondering whether he can duplicate what Cochran pulled off, the answer is … probably not. Arizona’s primaries are semi-closed, meaning that you can vote in the Republican election if you’re a registered Republican or unaffiliated. Registered Dems are out. If McCain wants to pull a Thad against some primary challenger, he’ll have to find the votes among indies. It could be, though, that his macro strategy is much the same — i.e. if he ends up falling behind before the primary, he might try to pitch indies on the idea that tea partiers must be stopped at all costs and therefore it’s in their interest to turn out for the incumbent. His problem potentially is that if Democrats nominate a strong candidate to challenge him, all left-leaning indies will be pulling for McCain to lose in the primary so that they can face the untested non-incumbent in the general election. In Mississippi, where the Republican primary inevitably decides who the state’s next senator will be, you don’t have that worry so lefties could vote strategically. Besides, if there’s any battle plan that Maverick’s going to follow, it’s more likely to be his pal Lindsey’s than Cochran’s. Graham trounced the tea party in a red state by using all the levers of incumbency; Cochran campaigned listlessly until the very end and nearly lost. If McCain ends up in a situation more like the latter than the former, something will have gone very wrong for him before 2016.
They are really trying their best to twist this. They are trying to create another meme of the Tea Party being against minorities and of course the voter id issues.
Our 2008 nominee, ladies and gentlemen. Disgusted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hez7W9pAS5k
The fool McCain, said this while supposedly running against obama in 2008 - “he is a decent person” and you do not have to be scared of obama as president. GENIUS!!!
That would make him smarter than over 80% in the US anyway. Just like physicians, the last one rated in the class is still called "Doctor".
Really Juan? By using lies, bribery and racist fear tactics?
I still have no words....Really Arizona? Really? How many more times are you all going to elect this guy?
geez this guy is a jackass of epic proportions..
Is he so stupid that he does not know those same black voters who voted to keep cochran will NOT vote for him again in November?
There is no fool like an old fool.
McCain should have left the stage after a failed run for president.
The guy is walking/talking disaster for the Republican party. I know more Republicans that dislike this guy than like him.
Again, mistaking the pointing finger for the moon....
The Democrat-registered (supposedly) African-Americans who “crossed over” to vote for Thad Cochran, were not and are not at all interested in supporting Cochran in the general election, and they will revert to their natural state, which is to cast the vote against ANY Republican, regardless of how much “pork” may be carried back to the district.
The communist speaks. Go back home Mcjoke
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
**McCain on Cochran’s win: I thought Republicans wanted African-Americans voting Republican**
Falsely?
I don’t think so.
Yes John, this is why you won your presidential bid. Oh wait, ...all those Democrats that blew smoke up your Depends, didn’t vote for you in the general election. Your leftist media abandoned you, and your own party thinks you are a fool.
Thad got the black vote, and black voters got a fool (like you) to screw over come the general election.
McDaniel must immediately and forcefully point out McCain’s RACIST pre-supposition.
Today...within the hour...
Oh, nevermind.
McCain must be an idiot. He knows this is not about blacks voting Republican but about Democrats being bussed in to decide the GOP nomination.
You CANNOT be SERIOUS!
“We want CONSERVATIVE Blacks voting Republican.”
We especially don’t want those of any race or party who would sell their vote and any convictions they have for $15.
Dude:
You might be surprised to find out what the cumulative/average IQ of our congress-critters really is.
My personal opinion? Certain dhimmicrats unneccessarily drag down the average.
Many holding office (both R & D) would not test above 90; seriously.
Would anyone consider Nancy Pelosi’s IQ to be any-portion above 90? Really?
Full disclosure, my IQ conforms with the societal norm of >100 (120 in 1981)
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