Posted on 06/26/2014 11:04:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
It is obviously karma that Haley Barbour is equipped with looks that resemble Ned Beatty from the “purty mouth” scene in the movie Deliverance - or perhaps his portrayal of the corrupt Senator in the movie Shooter. Given that the former head of the Republican National Committee and Mississippi Governor will evidently wallow in the excreta and politically copulate with just about anyone, it’s appropriate.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Barbour and Beatty in the same room. Has anyone?
Consider: Haley’s Mississippi mafia has spent the past three weeks verifying Barbour’s electoral promiscuity in his hysteria to drag old Thad Cochran – and by old, I mean an OLD 76 – across the finish line against challenger Chris McDaniel. And by Mississippi mafia – in this case – I mean Barbour, Karl Rove, John Cornyn, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Mayor Bloomberg, Mitt Romney’s campaign manager, Facebook’s President, the Chamber of Crony Commerce, liberal black activists, various lobbyists, GOP consultants and Super PACs – to name a few. I would include Cochran himself in this cabal, but it is unclear if he could pass a thorough autopsy – and his presence often seemed irrelevant, if not detrimental.
Rumors have it this is the general attitude among his own Senate staffers too.
Certainly this kind of activity is not a new development for Barbour, now a wealthy lobbyist and power broker – yet what he and his minions did the past three weeks in Mississippi has now set a new low standard for odious campaign tactics practiced by the Republican Establishment. The corrupt, unethical and immoral political cross-dressing that Ned, er, Haley and his team implemented over the past 21 days is simply breathtaking.
To start with, the Cochran camp bragged about polling some 35 thousand mostly African American Democrat votes to their side – in yes, a Republican Primary.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/cochran_camp_says_35000_dems_crossed_over_to_vote_for_the_incumbent.html
These votes corrupted what should have been about an 8-9 per cent win for McDaniel. Never mind that the 35 thousand Democrats will never vote for any Republican in any general election beyond maybe 15-20% – and that they were motivated by walking around money, the promise of even more pork coming Mississippi’s way – and all manner of other considerations. This was in fact verified by Mississippi’s Democrat Party Chairman Ricky Cole.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Cochran-McDaniel-Results-Legal-Challenges
To make it worse, one motivational tactic used on African Americans was to parrot the liberal line that Tea Partiers are racists and want to suppress the black vote. Say what you want about political infidelity, but using liberal talking points against other Republicans is as low as you can go Ned.
In addition, the NRSC gave their staff the “week off,” then redeployed them to Mississippi to do whatever it took to turn out Democrats for ole Thad. Keep in mind, the NRSC raises money under the guise that they work against Democrats. In Mississippi, they bribed Democrats. This was an all out effort by Washington Republicans, all the while moaning about “outside groups” polluting the pristine Mississippi electorate on behalf of McDaniel.
And it gets even more contemptible. According to The Hill, Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry was paid by pro-Cochran Mississippi Conservatives PAC to conduct unspecified get-out-the-vote efforts for Cochran. Now rather obviously, this is a smidgeon of a potential conflict of interest between Perry’s duties as county GOP chairman and his work for the Cochran campaign.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/210485-losing-miss-challenger-weighs-legal-challenge
So where did all the money for this come from? A bunch of it came from a lobbyist and Senator only fund raiser hosted by Mitch McConnell – who fresh off savaging Matt Bevin – raised some 800 thousand dollars from Washington to do the same to McDaniel the very day after the Primary three weeks ago. This is the same McConnell who has yet to savage Barack Obama over anything.
And then there’s the Chamber of Commerce, who’s cronies dumped 100 thousand dollars a day into media – which goes a long way in this state – behind Cochran. Got to keep that crony capitalism coming.
Moreover, there was never even any pretense that Cochran understands, let alone concurs with, conservative base principles. He ran about as shamelessly liberal a campaign as any Mississippi Democrat would run. He didn’t even pretend to be conservative.
Did I mention that this was a Republican Primary?
Now Barbour is fond of saying that “Mike Castle is the best we can ever do” in Delaware, and has said the same of Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Scott Brown and other moderates in the Senate. He uses this as his justification for working against people like Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle. He self-righteously claims this in his frequent speeches to Republican organizations.
Frankly, he’s right about Brown – but he’s wrong about Castle and maybe about Snow and Collins – but for the sake of argument, I’ll concede Haley’s point for just a minute. If this “best we can ever do” litmus is the guiding philosophy, then are you telling me that Thad Cochran “is the best we can ever do” in Mississippi?
Hell no he’s not! It would be hard to do any worse in Mississippi.
By Haley’s own theory, he should have been working to defeat Cochran, not desperately pulling out every trick in the book, and some that aren’t even in the book, to preserve power for a man so clueless that he doesn’t even know what the Tea Party movement is about. Yes, I realize that argument uses logic, and up against the naked aggression of power preservation, logic doesn’t stand a chance.
Obviously, Barbour and his coterie are not concerned with any philosophy or principles other than greed and power. They are much more interested in certain people retaining government power than they are reducing government power in the first place. This is the axis on which the tension between the GOP establishment and the Tea Party / base exists. This intramural battle is of course pleasing to the Democrats. It’s the only thing standing between them and electoral disaster this November.
I wish I lived in Mississippi so I could get excited about voting again. For the democrat!
Elect democrats over rinos. Then in the next election the liberal democrats can be beaten after the rinos are no longer an option.
I agree with livius. If there was fraud here it was in Dems who voted in both their own primary and the GOP runoff. But there was no manufacturing of fake votes.
This is going to have widespread and persisting impacts on the GOP. It’s next to impossible to argue that the Tea Party should “come home” after this one. What happened goes well beyond the expected level of rough and tumble of primary campaigns, it was the most hateful intraparty campaign I’ve seen in my 30 or so years of following GOP politics.
Makes you wonder what skeletons in Barbour’s closet old verminous Cochran has dangling on a string!
Which votes are the illegal ones? The ones where they voted in the runoff, even after they had already voted in the primary. I hope that’s not what you mean.
At this point, Childers is preferable to Cockring. I want that dribbling dementia troll gone.
Having met Ned one time, I can say he is far more gracious than that pig Haley ever could be.
I see Haley as BIG DADDY from Cat on a hot tin roof.
“The ones where they voted in the runoff, even after they had already voted in the primary.”
Precisely.
Anyone who voted in the democratic primary on June 3 was INeligible to vote on in the Republican primary on June 24.
Since Cochran only has a 54% conservative rating, could swapping him for Childers be a wash?
which is interesting….if 27% of all those 35K votes were illegal - that would push McDaniel over the top…..barely, but over the top.
I already contacted the RNC yesterday with how disgusted I was with them. If the RNC can’t or won’t be the opposition party to the mess in DC, what good are they. The RNC needs to be flooded with messages so they at least know what they did the other night to McDaniel was so wrong.
CGato
#RememberMississippi !!
In one sense, yes...a wash. On the other hand, the GOP-E isn’t listening. So why not kick them out? Live by the democrat; die by the democrat!
Let’s say you’re 100 years old and you’ve been in office since Reconstruction and along comes a good, Party-Loyal fella that can win.
Do you announce your retirement, throw your full weight behind him, and usher in a new generation?
Thad says, No.
They covet power. And because of that they should be destroyed.
IF the Democrat running would just sign a legal document declaring their full and complete support for the second Amendment then you’ve got yourself a winning Democrat candidate.
At what point does the Tea Party wake up and start running as Democrats against incumbent Republicans??
and ACU ratings are very lenient
FWIW. I cut up my RNC affiliation card (Ohio), and mailed it back to the RNC with a note that I didn’t like their tactics in Mississippi.
- Isoroku Yamamoto
save for later
NRA A+ may not mean anything, they apparently forgave cochran on one or two votes, One of them was joe biden’s 1991 anti-assault weapon bill that I believe included pump shotguns. I am an NRA member but I may not be much longer, they endorsed harry reid also.
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