Posted on 06/28/2014 3:38:13 AM PDT by OldRanchHand
Thad is the weekend at Bernie’s candidate. He is being propped up and carted around by the Mississippi mafia. You are right. They are basically keeping him alive (politically) to keep the cash rolling into Mississippi.
I don't think Thad even knows what day it is. The poor demented soul is just a warm seat for the GOPe Senate. I'm sure McConnell has assigned handlers who tell him how to vote. I would even go so far to say they know he won't make it to the end of his next term, so the machine can hand-pick their next malleable candidate.
I blame McDaniel for Bush not getting 60% in MS.
Percentage 59.4% 39.8%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi,_2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,_2004
Nominee George W. Bush
Party Republican
Home state Texas
States carried 50 + D.C.
Popular vote 7,853,863[1]
Percentage 98.1%
I was initially in agreement that Conservatives might need to, yet again, hold our noses and pull the lever.
However, I am slowly coming to believe that this one may be where we have to draw the line with the establishment Republicans. Their hatred of us is THAT blatant.
There’s a meme with a picture of Obama and a caption “What are you going to do about it? There should be one with Karl Rove’s pic and the exact same caption.
This article is a planted story by Haley Barbour and the Republican establishment.
These people are evil.
Be on your guard.
And the subsidies are ironically sapping away Mississippi’s dignity.
If every single soul in MS wanted to chip into a statewide charity pot that would be great because it would be voluntary. But tax/spend is asking for waste, if not also for perverse bribery incentives.
Some of "these people" appear to be on this thread, lol.
And, McDaniel just wasn’t malleable enough.
The trouble with modern MS is that it is full of welfare rednecks (and blacks). Who see no reason to “keep those necks red” working in the “sun.” Maybe it was not the most propitious place to launch a Tea Party candidate. It was still worth the try.
Senator Blackmon accepted the challenge and took the opportunity to address other concerns with her Republican opponent concerns like where Blackmon stands on the abortion issue. Blackmon says Tuck has suggested the Democrat is pro-choice.
I am a Christian, and I believe in the sanctity of life, Blackmon said. I would invite both cadidates to take an oath under penalties of perjury as to whether or not either candidate has had an abortion.
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/1465086/tuck-blackmon-spar-over-abortion
We got a lot of Republicans who had been redistributed into the GA 4th (out of GA-6th, Newt’s old district) to hold their noses, take a Dem primary ballot (open primaries here, too), and vote for Denise Majette in order to get rid of Cynthia McKinney. There was nothing of importance on the Republican primary ballot that year, 2002 IIRC.
I think that about sums it up. Will be interesting to see what happens in November in MS. It’s still a red state, so I assume Thad will be favored, and Barbour and the machine will pull out all the stops to drag him to the finish line.
Redistricted.
Damn you, autocorrect!
-——pull out all the stops-—
Especially the stop that tunes in the Reagan Democrats
I think we’re in agreement. I am one to always advocate the Buckley rule. A RINO to me is just a number to allow Obama less power. Look at Susan Collins. She’s useless, has no say, no sway, no real power in the conservative agenda (like a Cruz, Rubio etc). But she gives Reid one less seat in which should be a Dem seat. Same thing when Brown held the Mass seat. I dont care if they only vote R 50% of the time. Its 50% more than a Dem would. But this crossed the line. I think conservatives need to take a stand here. Otherwise this will be the model.
Perhaps it’s ultimately the money, don-o.
Mississippi has been bribed into an imbalance between effort and... what’s a synonym for welfare that doesn’t mean the dole?... prosperity? It’s gotten lazy. It has been robbed of a true sense of satisfaction.
Seems to me that Mississippi would be a wonderful place for farming with all the sun and land. But again the whole farming industry is stilted with subsidies.
And the donkey braying and the elephant trumpeting will both be about how much riches Mississippi can get.
(Rueful laugh)
You haz a smell.
And yet... to vote Democrat wouldn’t that add to the perversity?
I don’t think the answer to your neighbor going insane is to go insane yourself.
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