Posted on 06/27/2014 6:30:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
They’ve even lost Wallbanger!
He actually said he would not vote for Thad, much to the dismay of the great triangulator Dick Morris.
For the GOPe to lose a shill like Wallbanger indicates to me that they have really stepped in it...
Both parties are despicable.
The Founders never wanted political parties for the reason that political parties tend to be corrupt.
We need to clean house.
If McDaniel does not win a new election, then we will need to foster a write in campaign or in the alternative to support his opponent who is a pro-life, pro-gun candidate who voted against Obamacare.
However if we support him we have to ensure that everyone knows that we support him because of his efforts as a Congressman to go against the grain and not because we accept his views on other subjects.
I would suggest we start an organization such as "Reagan Republicans for Travis Childers."
Perhaps he would be more beholden to us peasants if he knew the only reason he won was because of "Reagan Republicans."
Either way we must make damn sure that Thad Cochran is not re-elected and is never again elected to anything. Thad Cochran is a low life scum sucking power hungry pig.
I could think of some other words, but the mods would pull my post.
John Fund used to be as establishment as it got.
“REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!” has a nice ring to it.
I’ll be saying that to each “send funds” request I receive from “the GOP establishment”.
Of course, conservatives STILL need to pick strong challengers who can win. And McDaniels DID make mistakes.
Strong challengers will let us whittle away the power of big-spenders like Cochran and — eventually — push them out.
I don’t see how electing Democrats could encourage strong conservative candidates to disrupt their lives and step forward.
I don’t think 2 wrongs make a right - or fix what just happened.
This old fart isn’t going to make it 6 more years - his mind is going.
Keep your powder dry - remember Mississippi and make sure ALL the TRUE conservatives on the Hill know your anger and make them commit to candidates.
To hell with this “I won’t campaign against a GOP incumbent in a primary (or run-off) bs.
His staff can keep him active long after his brain is flat lined. His staff is owned lock stock and barrel by the McConnell crony capitalism crowd.
I think it is coming up to the time when the Tea Party must abandon the GOP and look to infiltrating the other side.
It may be time to go into these primaries and run "Reagan Democrats" (i.e., Patriotic Middle Class people) and getting our people in that way.
Surely both parties hate the Tea Party and all that we stand for, i.e, limited constitutional government), so why put all our eggs in one basket?
The Republican party is not our political savior. We are going to have to save this Republic on our own.
Start putting Reagan Republicans in the Democrat primaries. A lot of Republicans are in such red districts that they don't even have democrat opponents. And then they vote for the crony capitalist programs like Boehner and McConnell lackies.
It is time to sever the Tea Party ties to the Republican party. They don't want us, so let's give them what they want.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/black-democrats-thad-cochran-_n_5504751.html
What if it was just a Demorat strategy, run by Demorats with no knowledge by Rino's or Chochran?
If there were participation by RINO's and/or Chochran, I can see feeling the same way as I did before; but if it was not?
Grab a pen, a pair of scissors and some tape.
Take one of those flyers and alter it so it looks like this:
Who says freepers aren't green?
This is how to RECYCLE.
Here's the context, and the problem. Democrats determined the Republican nominee, over and above the fact that a majority of Republicans supported McDaniel. - That's just wrong, and it's a foreshadowing of the early presidential primaries.
The only legal matter to be determined is what percentage of registered Democrats voting for Cochran in the run-off voted in the Democrat primary. As of last night, McDaniel said they had already found over a thousand. This is not an insignificant number, but the argument over tactics and the outrage clouds this issue.
Democrats should not be picking the nominees of the Republican party.
You make reasoned arguments.
I take it all back. After reading the HP article again; it does say a “conservative PAC” worked with the Demorats.
I take back my take back! I am confused as to what the article means by a conservative PAC when the label is a front to liberal churches!
Semantics.
It’s the proper name of a PAC that Barbour heavily funds.
EVERYONE wants to hold the “conservative” mantle, so they call themselves the “conservative” this and the “conservative” that and it fools enough people.
In this case they helped foot the bill to get out the black vote for Cochran.
Please elucidate.
The article states that, "The newly-formed PAC shares an address and chief financial officer with the church, raising questions about whether the church is illegally participating in the campaign." I'm assuming that it is an address to a liberal church. I am no freind of Barbour, but do you have a citation that implicatres him with this PAC? Because it is this PAC that got the Demorats to vote.
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Really?? What were they? I thought he waged a very uplifting and inspirational campaign!
I thought you were speaking about this:
“Mississippi Conservatives PAC did engage in its own questionable tactics”
Here's another thing, conservatives are actually one of the largest voting blocs in America. Social conservatives make up a large percentage of that conservative voting bloc, and a huge number of those are the Reagan Democrats --> Republicans.
It has long been said that Black Christians and Hispanic Christians, large proportions of those blocs, have more in line with the values of social conservatives than they do with progressive liberals. They believe in God, they desire strong families, and they want jobs. Many of them are pro-life.
It would be interesting to see what happened when old blue-collar Reagan democrats reunited with values concerned Christian democrats. Something might just get started.
That would be a large coalition.
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