Posted on 06/30/2014 4:38:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Cochran’s forces dumped money into liberal black churches, communicating that he is their champion because of the government pork he’ll continue to bring into the state.”
Star Parker ignores this crucial fact, McDaniel did not have the money to buy votes as did Cochran and the Republican establishment.
Where was the mega-hurl alert?
Cockroach won because he, the GOP elites, and the Democrats CHEATED! PERIOD!
Star is wrong here. McDaniel courted the base.
Cochran ran to the enemy (politically).
He is now known by his friends.
I don’t think that McDaniel could have gotten black votes, period. The whole Dem/Cochran approach to the blacks was based on the idea that Cochran would give them more “free stuff” - more food stamps, more welfare, huge amounts of money to the dysfunctional “historically black colleges,” etc. It was large-scale institutional bribery, conducted through the usual culprits: the black churches.
However, if the Cochran/Dem alliance openly announced this in advance, McDaniel should have prepared a counter-assault. I don’t know about MS politics, but he was a two-term state senator, so surely he would have known it and could have come up with some kind of strategy. Even, for example, publicizing the Dem/Cochran plot among GOP voters might have persuaded a sizeable number of those who had voted for Cochran originally to vote for McDaniel in the run-off.
I generally like Star but this is ridiculous. There is no way blacks would ever have voted for him. They voted for Thad because they know he’s not conservative.
People that say we need to court blacks should know that it will never work unless you’re handing out freebies.
TN 9th has a white Jew Dem socialist incumbent. GOP Tea Party backed Charlotte Bergmann is making her 3rd run to unseat him, she is a real smart Black conservative business woman. Yet she pulls only the white votes. Last election cohen got 80% of the vote to her 20%.
They prefer the PERKS, and freebies slave chains to Freedom.
But a news flash for McDaniel, which he should know, having served as a state senator, is that not all blacks are liberals. In Mississippi’s huge black population are many conservative black pastors who want freedom for their flocks. They know that black poverty is not about government money.
Yes, too true - a black conservative (or even a mainstream Republican!) is no longer considered black by the rest of the Democrat herd.
He blew it by ignoring folks who always vote for the rat candidates?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174067/posts
So far, there are many reports about shady outreach to Democratic voters supposedly undertaken by Cochran and his allies, particularly done by relatives of former Gov. Haley Barbour.
For example, The Daily Caller reported that Henry Barbour, the head of the Mississippi Conservatives PAC and the nephew of Haley Barbour, paid Democratic operative Mitzi Bickers “to make paid calls to potential Cochran supporters.” Those calls may have spurred many loyal Democrats to cast invalid votes.
In the search for improper votes, GOP officials who are affiliated with Cochran’s campaign are trying to block McDaniel’s search for invalidated votes that are recorded in the poll books, Fritsch said.
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However, 19,000 absentee voters cast ballots in the GOP run-off, and many of those votes may be improper, say McDaniel’s allies.
It was a cold, calculated move to use black Democrats who certainly won’t be voting for Thad in November.
Okay, it’s done and the GOPe and all the so-called conservative pundits on TV (yes, even pervasively on Fox) are quite happy in pontificating about the weakness of National Tea Party organizations while completely ignoring the underhanded duplicity of conscripting their enemy to defeat one of their own - at least one who they profess to want under their big tent.
What the GOPe has done is to earn the enmity of solidly conservative grass roots Americans who have become increasingly aware that the GOPe is nothing more than a second-tier Democrat enclave.
The GOPe had damned well better be right about their crazy idea Hispanics will vote for them ‘if only’ they implement AMNESTY, because they sure as heck aren’t going to get another vote from me. And, that starts right here in Georgia in the runoff race for Senator in July.
Sorry, Star-Baby, we’re not done yet.
First, we have the lawsuit.
Second, if Cockran still survives, then we vote DEMOCRAT in November, and give up this Senate seat. Not doing that will mean this DESPICABLE method will be done to us over and over again...and that WILL NOT be tolerated.
I think all this is water under the bridge, what conservatives in Mississippi need to focus their energy on now is closing the primary voting.
If conservatives don’t close the primary system there, this will happen again and again going forward.
A Parker proved once again it is all about race.
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