Posted on 06/06/2014 11:36:49 AM PDT by Hoodat
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking sides in the Mississippi Senate primary run-off, stepping out to help raise money for Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., against his Tea Party challenger, Chris McDaniel.
McConnell will host a "run-off reception" benefiting Cochran, a six-term incumbent, on the evening of June 10 at the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington.
In an email to party donors Friday, obtained by the Washington Examiner, McConnell warned that the outcome of the contest "will have a very real impact on our fight for the Majority," even though Mississippi is considered a Republican stronghold.
"Our friend Thad is in a battle in the coming weeks that will have a very real impact on our fight for the Majority," McConnell wrote. "You have helped all of us in the past, and we need your help for him now."
"It is critical that he has financial resources now, and we are going to make sure he has them," McConnell continued. "... We have been in this situation before and all of us know well from experience, this is no time to sit on the sidelines."
Indeed, McConnell recently trounced a Tea Party challenger, Matt Bevin, on his own turf in Kentucky during a primary race last month, spending millions of dollars in the process.
But Cochran's situation is unique among Senate incumbents this year. Because Cochran fell short of 50 percent in the initial primary vote last week, the race with McDaniel will head to a run-off -- . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hypocrite.
No way. No more voting for backstabbing RINOs. I hope Grimes beats Mitch in Kentucky. The GOP-E can go to hell!
Get conservative, and you'll have plenty of leverage. Meanwhile, I'll be working to destroy liberal republicans.
That's the new way things will work.
/johnny
What happens when you have no conservative? McConnell is as reliable as McStain to stab you in the back. I know several conservatives who are sitting out the November election for senate. Conservatives who have voted Republican since Goldwater.
McConnell said he wanted to punch conservatives and the tea party in the mouth and did so. Now he expects us to buy him and his buddy Thad lunch and another term as senator come November? Up his and the GOPE!
I guess Mitch forgot the 11th Commandment——again.
Done and done. Hope to see a lot of out-of-state private support roll in for McDaniel.
What McConnell and Cochran are doing is infantile and beyond pathetic.
You have so screwed things up with your 'lesser evil', that the base that the party counts on won't vote for your liberal candidates anymore.
Sucks to be a liberal republican today. Because they are going to start losing hard, and in the general election.
/johnny
McConnell’s not going to step aside. Besides that the ‘pubs in the US Senate with maybe six exceptions are all in it for themselves and the DC elite....screw the voter. What’s my point? The HOR, with enough self-proclaimed real consrvatives to do so, didn’t vote Boehner out of power. Do you really think the likes of McCain, Ayotte, Flake, Grahm and Collins (etc) will vote McConnell out of power?
Posted on June 05 2014 - 2:47 PM - Posted by: Steve Flesher
Assuming you aren’t Haley Barbour, most Republicans understand the purpose of contested primaries. They involve voters within their own party for a reason.
Accordingly, by coming in first place in Mississippi’s Senate primary election, Chris McDaniel seems slated to join Joni Ernst and Ben Sasse in moving forward in becoming those reinforcements that Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have been promised – and it was Republicans (the people) who had their say.
Yet, because of the runoff rule and because McDaniel didn’t secure 50.1% of the vote, he has to face 30+ year-incumbent Thad Cochran again at the end of the month.
The problem though is that Cochran’s establishment supporters are attempting to set a new precedent by selling our party short along with its ideals for common sense austerity measures within the federal government. To do this, they are now engaging in the same kind of rhetoric we could get from a big-spending Democrat. In addition, they’re actually going to attempt courting Democrats in Mississippi to turn out for Cochran. (Via Politico)
“Several advisers, speaking candidly and anonymously, said that competing in the June 24 runoff will likely require the campaign to shift resources from television and radio advertising into pure get-out-the-vote operations.”
[…]
“Riskiest of all, it will involve reaching out to casual voters – including independents and Democrats – to swell the electorate with Mississippians who may not have participated in this week’s first round of voting.”
Now let’s take a look at what Former Mississippi Governor and “foremost” Cochran supporter, Haley Barbour says to go along with this new plan (emphasis):
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the onetime national Republican Party chairman who is one of Cochran’s foremost champions, said the senator will dislodge McDaniel supporters and “expand the electorate” with a focus on kitchen-table issues. He said it was essential for Mississippians to understand what McDaniel’s anti-government, anti-appropriation views would mean in practice – starting with the state legislator’s stated opposition to federal education spending.
So, here we go. Instead of competing among conservatives, they’d rather portray Chris McDaniel as an "anti-government" radical while trying to get Democrats to come out for a Republican primary. In other words, the Mississippi party establishment is purposely frightening voters in the most dishonest way imaginable while they completely betray the intellectually honest principles of their own party.
As you know, folks have resorted to claiming that conservatives have waged a war on women, that we don’t care about the poor or the sick, or that we want “dirty air and dirty water” for everyone. They’re called Democrats.
But sadly it appears in Mississippi that the Republican establishment is joining their choir of shameless rhetoric for the sake of saving one of their good old boys.
Political convenience, or a truly “teachable moment" about an establishment incumbent’s conservative backbone?
You be the judge.
Like I said, we vote for the most conservative in the primary, not the rino, but whoever wins we support him or hier. I will never vote democrat. Sorry, won’t do. Now have to get back to work. Thank you very much.
But then why are you so desperate, that you're willing to actively support our enemies? Are you that blind?
Mitch is shaking the money tree to help out fellow CINO Cochran. I suppose Mitch figured out McDaniel might not be a solid vote for him as Senate Majority/Minorty Leader.
“’Our friend Thad is in a battle in the coming weeks that will have a very real impact on our fight for the Majority,’ McConnell wrote.”
“Our fight for the Majority”—i.e., I want to be the majority leader and McDaniel might vote for Mike Lee or some other conservative.
that’s totally understood.
Cuccinelli was awesome.
“...I will never give money to any political party. If I like a candidate, I will donate to that candidate directly.”
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Pretty much our family’s policy also.
We have donated to McDaniel’s campaign directly. And we’ve also donated to him through the Senate Conservatives’ Fund.
http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/endorsements
The advantage to donating directly to the McDaniel campaign is that the donations are reported as coming from small individual donation.
The advantage to donating through the SCF is that the SCF covers the credit card transaction cost and forwards 100% of the donation to the McDaniel campaign.
Just another data point to demo that Cruz >> Paul.
You are correct. Once the dagnabbit primary is over, we need to stick together.
Although a lot of people will argue the point, as a general rule, most any Republican in office is far better than ANY Democrat in the same office: it is for damn sure that NO Democrat will EVER vote with the Republicans on any issue.
Many claim the Senate is likely to go ,Rat on 2016. Two years of Ditch Mitch aren,t going to help very much.
Rand already supported Ditch Mitch.
Cochran LOST the primary. He should retire from the race.
It would be funny if enough wrote in Bevin that he win. I’m not sure if Grimes would be better, however people of Kentucky need to wake up and vote conservatively.
Would Grimes be better? I mean, she would be voting for Obama 100% of the time.
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