Posted on 06/26/2014 6:40:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
National Republican leaders are toasting primary season as a smashing success over activist conservatives that has put the hard right on the ropes and given the Washington GOP the slate of candidates it wanted for 2014.
Those victories, however, have come at a staggering cost — and Republicans are painfully aware of the price of putting down an intraparty insurrection.
Establishment-aligned groups have already spent some $23 million on independent expenditures propping up favored House and Senate candidates in contentious primaries, according to a POLITICO review of Federal Election Commission records. By comparison, Republican nominees raised and spent that amount in the 2012 North Dakota, Indiana and Nevada Senate races combined — three of the most competitive campaigns fought that year.
The scope of the effort to suppress activist-backed candidates has been broader and costlier than is widely understood, covering at least 20 House and Senate primaries from North Carolina to California, and from coastal Mississippi to the outer tip of Long Island. The loose coalition of establishment forces encompasses two dozen advocacy groups, industry associations and super PACs that have raised and spent millions on behalf of Washington’s chosen candidates.
When the GOP calls for money, I’ll tell them to call the new constituents who voted for Thad Cochran.
I agree skeeter.
Compare the upside and the downside of write ins...
best case, we win.
worst case, we don’t.
so the worst case is what we’ll have if we do nothing.
that is, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
... the battle cry should include “get them in the primary or get them with a write-in”
do you think the GOPE would try a write in?... oh yeah they did that already with success....
“We need to infiltrate the Democrat party. We need to run Tea Party conservatives in the Democrat primaries.”
Now THAT just might work in red states!
Run a super conservative in the RAT primary, win that and face the RINO in November.
How would fat boy Barbour handle that with crossovers? Is he going to work his machine to pump up the vote for the liberal RAT in the RAT primary?
If the conservative won in Nov they could switch parties.
Hmmm...Vintage 1986, I would call it taco surprise...
Thad Cochran cheated and played the race card. That is one thing I will NEVER tolerate in ANY Candidate.
Interesting strategy. I could run as a JFK Democrat. Cut taxes. "Ask not what your country can do for you" Engage our enemies with military might (Cuban Blockade)
But I wouldn't get and democRat votes.
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They are delusional if they think they have “put-down” the insurrection.
They will see at the polls in Novemnber.
I will not vote for any establishment Republican.
I will write-in a true conservative.
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Me neither. I’m so done with uniting behind the GOP Establishment’s hand-picked RINO candidates when these same a-holes NEVER unite behind our candidates! Although I don’t think third party is the answer, I refuse to any longer support Establishment darlings like Cochran, McCain, Graham, Alexander, Corker, Murkowski, Collins, etc. This nation is already trashed beyond all recognition and having the GOP Establishment in charge of Congress and/or the White House isn’t going to save it, nor will it reverse the nation’s current high speed trajectory toward total collapse. At this point, I would rather just roll up my sleeves and begin the long, slow rebuilding process by supporting and electing only Constitutional conservative candidates into office.
Agreed, they are only looking at the $$$ signs of their treachery and not the true cost which will become apparent to them in this election cycle or 2016. How do you crap on your base and expect to win? Delusional fools.
All you Party Boys, tell me again why I want to be a part of your backstabbing Party? Knowing at your whim we will be slimmed, smeared and stabbed in the back. I wouldn’t want you traitorous scum anywhere near me in battle.
They may actually take the senate in 14 with independent and some cross over democrat votes because of obamacare and the economy, but they are fools if they think the democrats are going to accept a cheap knock off for long when they can always get the real thing.
The establishment things seeing only the dollar cost tells you quite a bit about where they are ethically and morally and how little they care about the people and the country. The only thing these pathetic creatures understand is the loss of their jobs, unfortunately for that to happen the country must pay, but sometimes you have to suffer a great deal more to make things better and the liberal progressive blight on this country has to be eradicated at the roots.
They have DRASTICALLY underestimated what this has cost them and I’m not just talking money.
The word “despicable” SO applies to Cochran that he needs his picture next to the word in the dictionary.
RE: Thad Cochran cheated and played the race card.
He played the race card, yes,
But how is working within the stupid primary rules ( i.e. allowing DEMOCRATS to vote in a Republican primary ) cheating?
Mississippi Needs Travis Childers and Not Corporate Crony Thad Cochran
About Travis
Travis Childers knows hard work.
After the death of his father when Travis was 16 years-old and still in high school, he worked nights and weekends at Booneville’s first convenience store to help his mother and sister and then worked his way through college.
As a local small business owner and economic development leader, Travis Childers has made payroll and helped recruit and create thousands of jobs in North Mississippi.
In 2008, Travis won a special election to fill the seat of Congressman for Mississippi’s First District in the U.S. House of Representatives left vacant by Senator Roger Wicker. He ran in and won five elections in 2008 before he gained a full term in November.
Travis, 56, has already established himself as a reliable and authentic voice for Mississippi, because he believes it’s not about left or right – it’s about right and wrong. He has consistently worked hard to create jobs, improve public education, and protect Mississippi values.
While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Travis received the endorsements of the National Rifle Association (NRA), earning an “A-plus” pro-gun voting record, and the National Right to Life for his “exemplary pro-life record.” He also received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of Enterprise Award in recognition of his pro-business record.
Travis is a product of Mississippi public schools from grade school through college. He attended North- east Mississippi Junior College and the University of Mississippi, where in 1980 he received a degree in business administration. Even before graduating from Ole Miss, Travis was licensed as a realtor. He soon joined the real estate business of Robert Davis in his hometown of Booneville.
First elected in 1991, Travis served 16 years as Prentiss County Chancery Clerk. He balanced 16 budgets and was ranked as one of the most fiscally responsible Clerks in the state. His hard work and strong leadership were further recognized in 2001-2002 when Travis was chosen to serve as President of the Mississippi Chancery Clerks Association.
Travis has been married for 33 years to the former Tami Gibson. The couple has two children – Dustin, a graduate of the Mississippi College School of Law and practicing attorney in Booneville, and Lauren, an Ole Miss graduate and regional admissions counselor for the university. Travis attends the First United Methodist Church of Booneville.
The Childers family owns a personal care home, the Landmark Community, and the Landmark Nursing Center, an 80-bed skilled care facility and Alzheimer’s unit.
Travis is running for the United States Senate, because Mississippians shouldn’t be just getting by – we should be building for the future and above all else, we should be putting Mississippi first.
Tawk about bizarre-o world.
Don’t form a third party, it’ll steal votes from republicans. Then republicans turn around and attack true conservatives.
Damn...what’s wrong with this picture?
It’s worth every penny to the GOPe.
Besides that, voting for the dem makes it even more likely that Cocharan loses. And that's the important thing at this point.
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If the establishment GOP doesn’t come around before then, 2016 will be its last hurrah—they go the way of the Whigs.
And you don’t have to be a history major to recall what happened not long after the Whigs were replaced by the GOP. Hopefully it won’t come to that.
But no more `JEBs’, no more Christies or Bloombergs, and no more McCains, Boehners, McConnells, Grahams or Romneys.
There are things that gnaw at a man worse than being under the heel of his enemies, and that’s suffering because of betrayal by his `friends.’
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Amen to that! I really do believe we’re witnessing the beginning of the end of the GOP as we know it. They’re so consumed with demographics and trying to attract hardcore Democrat voting blocs (very unsuccessfully, I might add) that in the process they’re completely alienating and angering the largest segment of their base — conservatives. The GOP cannot possibly win ANY general national or state elections without its traditional conservative base and therein lies the party’s impending demise.
Conservatives should run in both primaries in red states.
Open or closed primaries couldn’t stop a conservative from getting on the Nov ballot that way.
Two conservatives would have to agree to run, and flip a coin on which primary each ran in.
When one of them won a primary, all the support would switch to that candidate in Nov. If the conservative wins that they switch to Ind!
See #52
bingo....
I truly hope the “cost” of trying to destroy the Tea Party is NOT in dollars but in “heads”, the more rhinos gone will be well worth it.
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