Posted on 06/25/2014 11:38:56 AM PDT by gwgn02
Do you think the Republicans just lost retaking the Senate due to the Thad Cochran campaign's smear tactics?
Yes or No..opinions.
If disenfranchised voters decide not to show up in November,
maybe its becuz they see no difference between the candidates.
Then MS is even more backward than we thought. In Texas, there is a blank line for write-ins. If write ins are not permitted, you can always leave the Senate choice blank and vote for genuine Republicans in the down- ticket races.
Still, McDaniel will likely get thousands of write ins.
Snippet from Time Mag:
“Tea Party activists in Mississippi and beyond urged state Sen. Chris McDaniel to mount a write-in campaign against Republican Sen. Thad Cochran on Wednesday, following McDaniel’s stunning defeat in a primary runoff vote Tuesday.
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“When the Republican Establishment acts like Democrats, what is the point of supporting them?” Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips wrote in an email to supporters Wednesday morning. “Every McDaniel supporter in Mississippi from DeSoto County in the North to Biloxi in the South should stand up today and tell Chris McDaniel that if he runs as a write-in candidate in November, they will support him. ...”
http://time.com/2921912/chris-mcdaniel-tea-party-thad-cochran/
Who’s going to support some bastard that just called you a racist?
Daines will be GOPe, yes. But I still have him as more than a heavy favorite. Even with Walsh now the incumbent, he still leads in the polls routinely over 14%. He’s a savvy politician. My money is on him.
Wasn’t it an open primary that put McCain in play not so many elections ago?
It seems some politicos and party agendas are so transparent, even GOP leadership says nothing to seek to wrest justice from the jaws of treachery and deception.
Does Mississippi forbid defeated primary candidates from running as an Independent? It worked for RINO Murkowski in Alaska. It would be nice to give GOPe a taste of its own medicine.
No.
Unless, of course, a huge group of “conservative” purists sit at home in November pouting because their guy didn’t win the nomination. Perhaps there are enough old grumps to throw the election to the dems, but I doubt it.
(”Conservative” is in quotes, because a true conservative is also a realist who understands that taking oneself out of the game is petulant and selfish and scores points for the other side.)
The Democrats are standing against God, the Republicans have forgotten God. If I was in Mississippi, based on how I feel at this moment, I possibly would go to the polls in November. . TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT!
Your probably right about his chances but nobody should mistake him as having anything in common with a conservative.
So my answer to the op is also, what difference does it make..both parties do not want conservatives in their ranks.
The NRA endorsed Cochran on March 25. He received an A+ rating from the group.
you got that right!
Like I said originally, I would not be surprised if the GOP lose this November, and since its really only moderates in competitive races (Ernst may be considered an outlier), they are the only ones who could be blamed.
Cochran, and probably other Republicans, will lose if McDaniel voters are pissed and stay home.
Best strategy: McDaniel meets with Cochran’s handlers, Haley Barbour, etc., and offers conditional support. McDaniel will endorse and actively promote “healing” ONLY IF Cochran pledges to oppose amnesty vigorously (however disguised); support impeachment of Obama should the blessed opportunity arise; support real spending reductions; reduce Big Government regulation; etc. No tricks or weaseling allowed.
If the above does not occur, and Cochran wins the general election anyway, he will have no obligation to support “Tea Party” positions.
If it does occur, and McDaniel wins, we will have a functional facsimile of a conservative Senator in office.
If it does not occur, a left-wing Democrat commissar will be elected to support amnesty, protect Obama, spend even more, confirm leftist judges and appointees, and vote for higher taxes, more regulation and PC insanity.
Which seems preferable?
Isn’t this what the Dave Brat campaign did to defeat Eric Cantor? Why was reaching out to Democrats and encouraging them to vote in the Republican primary acceptable in Virginia but not in Mississippi?
Sarah Palin said pretty much the same thing yesterday.
What difference does it make? Even of the House impeaches Imam Al-Husseini, the Senate needs 67 SENATORS to remove him. That would never happen, even if the GOP wins every winnable race in 2014.
Because the D.O.P.E. Party didn't do it to themselves.
Y'see.
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