Posted on 06/28/2014 3:38:13 AM PDT by OldRanchHand
RINO – Republican In Name Only – is a term used to describe people who are not truly Republican, they just run as a Republican on the ballot to get elected. Is Chris McDaniel a RINO?
He claims he is a lifelong Republican, but…
He voted in the Democratic Primary
“Records show conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel voted as a Democrat in the 2003 state primary.” –Associated Press 11/13/2013
Chris McDaniel denied it. But, “McDaniel’s campaign spokesman Keith Plunkett said it is possible McDaniel voted in the 2003 Democratic primary.”
Mississippi’s Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann confirms it: “I looked at [the records], and they show he voted Democrat when Haley Barbour, Amy Tuck, Tate Reeves and Stacey Pickering were running in the Republican Primary. They also show he didn’t vote in the presidential election in 2004 — when Bush was running — and didn’t vote in the Republican Primary in 2008.”
So, Chris McDaniel says he is a lifelong Republican. But he voted in the Democratic Primary; didn’t vote in an important Republican Primary, and when liberal Democrat Senator John Kerry was running against President George W. Bush…he didn’t vote at all.
Chris McDaniel, he says one thing, his record says something else.
Which Party Is It?
When Chris McDaniel first ran for his office in 2007, Ryan Walters, one of his top advisers on his campaign committee was just four years prior the Vice Chairman of the Mississippi Reform Party and served on the Reform Party National Committee.
In 2012, Chris McDaniel was a featured speaker at the Mississippi Constitution Party’s State Convention.
And in April, when faced with criticisms of the Libertarian Party, he tried to make amends with that organization, he said, “I defended the Libertarian party on many occasions, despite objections from some on the political right.”
So which is it, Chris? Reform Party or Constitution Party or Republican Party or Libertarian Party or Democratic Party?
Perhaps we’ll never know, because as McDaniel said to the Libertarians, “the longer I serve in government, the more my positions evolve.”
Editorial
The Carthaginian – November 21, 2013 Editorial: McDaniel can’t cry ‘Liar’
A few years back a new newspaper editor moved into a South Delta town and began pumping life into the local weekly with lively news that evoked some consternation.
It led to some serious name calling against the scribe, culminating, the story goes, with a elderly farmer walking through the door of the newspaper and inquiring, “Are you the fellow everyone’s calling a ***-**-*-*****?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well,” the old farmer rejoined, “ain’t nobody calling you a liar.”
Chris McDaniel, Tea Party hopeful for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Thad Cochran, has taken issue with reports he has, in times past, voted a Democratic Party ticket or skipped major Republican Party votes.
After initial confusion in his reply, it came out that state maintained computer records did show McDaniel had voted in a Democratic Party primary and skipped a GOP primary.
That apparently being a grave insult to his conservative credentials, McDaniel or his mouthpieces countered that he had to vote Democratic to vote in local elections, that perhaps someone had struck a wrong key and his vote was improperly recorded, that Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a rumored GOP aspirant to the Senate seat, was playing politics at state expense.
The key now is, he ain’t calling nobody a liar.
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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