Posted on 12/30/2014 1:53:27 PM PST by Sybeck1
Former Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel (R) on Tuesday accused Republican leaders of enforcing a double standard in their response to the revelation that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002.
ADVERTISEMENTMcDaniel nearly took out Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in the this year's GOP Senate primary. He was the target of attacks from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and some in the state GOP who said he should withdraw from the race because he had booked a speaking engagement at a conservative rally alongside a white nationalist. McDaniel ultimately withdrew from the rally.
On Tuesday, McDaniel told CNN that Republicans are backing Scalise because he’s in a position of power and that the party tried to dump him for a lesser sin because he posed a threat to the establishment.
"Of course there is a double standard for the GOP establishment,” he said.
McDaniel accused former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) of having “a long history of despicable comments, some of them overtly racist,” but said Barbour “receives a free pass from establishment politicians because of his perceived influence.”
"And yet, all the while, others are forever tarnished for less serious deeds," McDaniel said.
"The establishment wings of both parties are more hypocritical than fair, seeking to crush anyone, friend and foe alike, who would threaten their hold on power,” he added.
Scalise on Tuesday said he regrets addressing the white supremacist group as a state legislator in 2002. He said he “wholeheartedly” condemns what the group stands for and that he didn’t realize its affiliation at the time.
The Louisiana Republican is now fighting to keep his job as the third-ranking Republican in the House. He's received statements of support from Republicans from Louisiana to Washington.
“Like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I know Steve to be a man of high integrity and good character,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement Tuesday.
“He has my full confidence as our Whip, and he will continue to do great and important work for all Americans.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) also supported Scalise in a statement, as have Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and the state's GOP.
McDaniel ping
Republicans don’t go after the American Left this way.
Thanks for voting Republican btw. :)
He's right about Boss Hog.
Yet we are accused on this very board by storm trooping GOP Party hacks of "throwing a temper tantrum" and being "childish" if we live by our principles and refuse to vote for those same tyrants who vowed to 'crush' Conservatives 'wherever they are found' and 'punch us in the nose'.
Not a smidgeon of difference between the GOP and the Obama Democrats. They are all party of the tyrannical Oligarchy now ruling us.
The left are taking out GOPe...thanks.
If you don’t play by their crooked rules, you don’t win any prizes.
Exactly right. The GOPe continuously tries to paint Tea Party conservatives as racist, but then gives this a pass?
Will you never learn? ;-)
I don’t know what comes over me. ;’)
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