Posted on 06/25/2014 7:19:34 AM PDT by topher
A BAD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS If you can divine a national trend from a runoff election in Mississippi, be our guest. But rather than pondering the motives of 3,188 Mississippi voters who made the difference in a bitter, hyper-local election, there’s a more useful consideration today. What’s at stake nationally this year is control of the U.S. Senate, and Republican chances of taking the majority went up significantly Tuesday night.
[During New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel’s victory speech, the stage nearly collapsed. Rangel asked “heavier people on the stage… to take safety over ego” and step down.]
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That’s fine if they want to spin it whichever way they want. Do you think they will care when the minorities become the majority years from now and we will be complaining we are excluded? We will truly be the minorities then and will be cast aside as trash.
I will do the same. No more go along to get along.
One more thing. I notice a lot of tea party people telling others they are conservative. Unfortunately, this can almost mean anything now. Tell people you are tea party. Make THEM defend their nasty lies of racism, hater, etc. I really think it’s time to be more open. I know a lot on this site have already done such. The rest of us need to follow.
I agree I’ve said it a few times yesterday that had we been pursuing a viable 3rd party even as recent as the rise of the Tea Party, we’d actually be making some headway instead of just considering it NOW.
“Use caucuses instead of primaries.”
That sounds good.
But gaming the caucus system is how Obama ‘won’ several states in ‘08.
Your “fix” left out “Republican.”
Yeah, and the same people would be telling us we can’t win. It’s always one excuse............Ross Perot. That’s there big boogie man. One election, one time, and the sky is falling. I wish the same people would put as much consideration as why McCain and Romney lost.
A caucus primary is at least limited to those interested enough to make the trip and the effort. I doubt many of the demo cross-overs in Mississippi would have wanted to support Cochran enough to go through all that.
Rumor has it ‘voting incentives’ of $100 bills in envelopes in mailboxes were done.
Wanna wager what sort of incentives would be offered in a caucus?
Here’s an idea then. How about Jeb and Christie sit the damn election out, to spare us the suffering?
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Let’s be clear shall we? Elections from this point forward really won’t matter. The damage has been done. That being said:
In 2012, we watched FReepers assist Left-wing rags like Politico in helping to destroy all of our candidates. None of them were pure enough, conservative enough, presidential enough. “Yep, they’re just not ready for prime-time”, “Sorry, but they just don’t have the experience necessary for the job”, “They’ll have NO chance in the general election”...blah...blah...blah!
Please don’t delude yourself into thinking that we’ll stop with Jeb and Christie. All candidates, even some good ones won’t cut it with some here. We make the Left’s job so easy. We did it in 2012; we’ll do it again in 2016...count on it!
purity test = Please abandon your principles about abortion, following the Constitution, etc. and vote for our guy. He’s the only one who can win you stupid tea partier.
Nail, meet hammer. McDaniel decided he had the wind at his back, and with runoff election turnout typically lower than the primary, he assumed that Cochran couldn’t generate enough voters to win the second round.
Instead, Cochran played the race card, and Mississippi Democrats were more than willing to go along. From what I can gather, McDaniel had no counter-punching strategy; Cochran was controlling the message; his friends in D.C. made sure he had plenty of cash for the run-off, and the press was more than willing to ignore Thad’s little housing/adultery scandal.
As a former resident of the Magnolia State, I will admit to being surprised by yesterday’s results. Thad appeared to be D.O.A. after the primary, with no hope of recovery, while McDaniel seemed destined for a sure win.
The McDaniel race is a lesson for all Tea Party candidates. Don’t stop your campaign until the final vote is counted and be prepared for anything.
Having torched his political bridges with tens of thousands of conservative voters in Mississippi, who does Thad believe will drag him across the finish line in November? Does he think the GOP-e can save him again, or is he relying on his newfound friends in metro Jackson and Bennie Thompson’s Congressional district—the same individuals who will pull the level for Travis Childers in November.
The only bad news for Democrats was that Hispanics are so unenthusiastic about voting they didn’t care about winning a seat for one of their own.
purity test = Please abandon your principles about abortion, following the Constitution, etc. and vote for our guy. He’s the only one who can win you stupid tea partier.
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Or allow a Marxist with a track record of destruction to stay in office to finish his “fundamental transformation” of America. ;-)
In Washington state we saw the Paulites come in and dominate the caucuses knowing full well that they would not drum up sufficient support to actually win any elections.
They acted the spoiler - just like Cochran’s people did.
I’ll go so far to say had people actually thought ROss Perot could have won and actually voted for him instead of proven RINO George HW. Bush, we’d have a viable 3rd party today right now and most likely the weak Republican party would be kissing a$$ of the third party to stay relevant.
Agree
There are certain life experiences that make my opinion of others so easy. The hate for Sarah Palin is one. Voting for Cochran after how he won this primary is another. Actually, supporting any gope is another. If we are to turn this country around it won’t be with the gope. wake up people.
The democrats are here to take the willingly into socialism. The republicans are here to take the unwilling into socialism unwittingly.
I agree that some groups care enough to come to caucuses in this present climate, but if they were to become the norm, then that would all balance out.
Agreed. I think there are probably grounds for challenging the election.
I read somewhere that 35,000 dems voted for Cochran ( I think that’s stupid to allow crossing over) A few of them will vote for the dem and a few will vote for the rep and a lot of them probably won’t bother to vote so I think that would give McDaniel a better shot
what would it take for you to NOT vote for an R?
Paul Ryan if I was in his district. I would vote for the other Ryan just go get the jerk out of the House.
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