End the McDaniel Kook-Fest (concern troll zot fest is just getting started)

The Neshoba Democrat ^ | 7/1/14 | Editorial

[Norm Lenhart]

Well, they reflect their current base. The ones that cant wait to be crapped all over in the name of more lesser evil.

Actual conservatives have bailed. What remains deserves what it gets.

[Hoodat]

Three problems here. First, you are correct to point out the idiocy of trying to police 'intent'. But that is not the issue here. The issue is trying to police those who actually voted in the Dem Primary. And in that event, it is 100% possible to enforce. Unfortunately, we have corrupt election officials working on behalf of the Cochran campaign who were specifically ordered NOT to verify that status.

The second problem here is that the Cochran campaign sent out flyers that reinforced the patently false narrative of Republicans regarding race. The Republican Party has never been the party of racists, segregationists, etc., yet now we have a Republican reinforcing the worst race-baiting possible with Democrat voters.

Lastly, we have misappropriation of funds from GOP coffers. The NRSC raised money on the premise of using that money to defeat Democrats in November. Yet instead, that money has been used to defeat Republicans in June. Furthermore, that money was given directly to Democrats to empower them and get out the vote. I don't know about you, but I think donors would be highly upset to find out that the checks they stroked to the GOP were given to Mississippi Democrats instead.

Capisce?

[surroundedbyblue]

I am solidly in the McDaniel camp and do not appreciate being called a kook. I am a conservative first, not a Republican. The GOP abandoned people like me long ago but reinforced that with its 2012 nomination of the father of gay marriage and socialized medicine for president.

P.U.M.A.

[tanknetter]

I’m generally in agreement with you.

Not here.

Reagan’s 11th Commandment cuts both ways, and Cochrane’s massive violation of it should not be forgiven just because he “won” the nomination.

What Cochrane did exceeded, grossly so, the boundaries of any acceptable level of the expected rough and tumble of primary campaigns. He undermined the integrity of the process and system by buying votes. He undermined the integrity of the Conservative Movement by attacking McDaniels using slanderous “right wing” stereotypes on issues like race and racism.

There’s a difference between winning, and winning ugly. Cochrane won very, very ugly and now gets to reap the consequences of that win.

[Paine in the Neck]

Cock'ran's slimey vote buying scheme was the decisive act of the GOPe burning its bridges from Conservatives

[liberalh8ter]

Normally, I’d say I can't see that happening but in the current atmosphere, I offer no forecast. There's too much going on right now to predict what's going to happen.

[piytar]

IBTZ?

[nitzy]

When you realize that the party you have supported for years is entirely made up of sleazy, career politicians who want nothing more than to stay in power at any cost and you decide to stop blindly following them....that is not cutting and running.

You seem to be new here so let me fill you in...This forum is about conservatism NOT Republicanism.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Much as it pains me to say it, it's time to put Party Unity first."

Oh, how cute. Rove, is that you?

Party unity can go straight to hell. Take your GOP lefties and....well, you know what you can do with them. Thing is, you liberals like that kind of thing.

[Charles Martel]

Smell that ozone?

I thought I caught a whiff earlier, but I guess the moderators are amused or otherwise occupied. Please ping me if this one rides the lightning.

[CatherineofAragon]

"I realize that emotions run high in the wake of this mess..."

Planting the notion that pushback against the crimes in Mississippi is based on emotion instead of rationality.

Try again, GOPer.

[don-o]

Where did you go? Come out and play.

[tennmountainman]

Admit it. You really enjoy being dumped on and rained on by your own
party. It floats your boat.

[Black Agnes]

Maybe he’s reading that ‘tact’ link I sent.

Or using a thesaurus to find more insults for people he’s going to need in November.

[JRandomFreeper]

This is a tough crowd to play to. Too much unity going on here, and all of it aimed at the poster and the liberal GOP that he represents. ;)

/johnny

[FourtySeven]

Getting in bed with Democrat electioneering techniques should not be tolerated.

Exactly. That is certainly a red line for me. Such actions need to be severely chastised, or else the conservative movement is done for; we will be constantly fighting off charges of "racism" from our "own" otherwise!

That's what these "unifiers" don't get. Or refuse to acknowledge. If this is tolerated, for the same of "unity" it's only going to be destructive in the long run.

Unlike some I am not hollering “kill the GOP.” It needs a heart transplant, however.

And neither am I! It most certainly does need a "heart transplant" though, STAT!

[Night Hides Not]

I might have been open to a reconciliation with GOPe had there been an apology from the Cochran camp for the racist flyers and robocalls. IOW, throw a couple of staffers under the bus for "unauthorized activities on behalf of the Senator." We all understand the importance of the mid-term election.

HOWEVER...we have learned there is no reconciliation to be had with GOPe. The way they've responded in the aftermath of last Tuesday's results is simply "we f'ed you over, and we'll continue to "f" you over, get used to it. All you have to do is read the comments from McCain, and the silence from Priebus has been thunderous.

I am now a RINO, so I can vote in primaries for Tea Partiers like Ted Cruz. My money and support will go to Tea Party conservatives.

The Cochran "victory", whether it holds or not, is a classic example of a Pyrrhic victory.

[Ohioan]

Should McDaniel and Bruce be disqualified because they fail the purity test? Of course not..

Note, carefully, how the writer changes the actual thrust of the protest, to imply some form of fanaticism on the part of the victims of flagrantly bad behavior on the part of the Cochran campaign managers (not of the Senator personally)! The victims are protesting being smeared, having bought votes used against them, and maybe even some invalid votes being improperly counted.

Similarly, the writer continues the insult by calling those who protest "kooks."

As an Ohioan, it is not my place to meddle in Mississippi politics. Elections--even Federal elections--are supposed under Article I of the Federal Constitution, to be governed by State law. And, unlike many over the past century, this Ohioan has always opposed outside meddling in that process. But as a rational analyst; as a lifelong student of rhetoric & exponent of reasoned debate, I will comment on what is no better than a propaganda piece. If the writer were seriously interested in promoting party unity, rather than further denigrating the candidate he doesn't like, he would never have employed the techniques of a dissembler.

William Flax

[GOPJ]

Let the dialogue begin.

This is a liberal phrase.. I assume from a liberal newspaper.

[Stymee]

Today’s elitist GOP needs put to death and a resurrection, not a mere heart transplant!