When Tea Party candidates lose, conservatives are to blame for nominating them. When Establishment candidates lose, conservatives are to blame for not voting for them. (But when Tea Party candidates win, nothing to see here! Just an aberration!)
Either way, the gravy train rolls on.
Smearing a key constituency of your base is never a good idea.
You hit the nail on the head.
The GOPe just handed the mississippi senate seat to the Dems.
Cochran needs to step down for this corruption.
Pray America wakes up
> “Perhaps ***more worrisome to Washington Republicans*** is that if conservative outrage in Mississippi spreads, some Tea Party voters in other states where the Republican establishment’s candidate has prevailed could stay home in November. That could bolster Democrats like Kay Hagan in North Carolina, Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mark Begich in Alaska or Michelle Nunn in Georgia.”
Washington republicans are not the least worried about voters staying home and the ensuing losses to the GOP. Life is good in Washington DC regardless.
They call us "racist teabaggers," so why would they even want our votes?
I would not be surprised. The GOP has a history of pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory.
In 2012 they KNEW they would win the Senate. They didn’t, mainly due to the GOP-elite interference in some state races.
Why would the GOP-elite not repeat similar interferences for 2014?
The GOP-elites are concerned about one thing: keeping their positions, power, influence.
The conservatives are a threat to them.
In the eyes of the Democrat Party, I have always been a racist.
In the eyes of the Republican Party, I am now a racist.
Now I'm hearing from GOPe posters that I need to "get over it", and rally around the Republicans in November. If we don't, it will be my fault (and other conservatives) for the Democrats keeping the Senate.
And 30 some-odd Senators contributed to Cochran's smear campaign.
If Republicans take the senate, we can and likely will impeach Obama. They haven’t spent all this time building a case for impeachment for no reason. We need the senate though. Just sayin’.
This may well end up a Pyrrhic victory for Cochran and the establishment.
Nowhere in the article is the rage about the GOP labeling Tea Party supporters as racists and comparing them to the KKK. There is not a single mention of black ministers who claim they were given envelopes of money to pay people to vote for Cochran. The charges that poll workers were expressly told not to check if voters had previously voted in the Democratic primary. All aspects of this story that will forever be unknown to NYT readers, who seriously believe they are just super informed about everything.
The NY Times wants their readers only to take away a "the Republicans have a big crazy Tea Party problem" message and have no doubt, that's all they'll get. Their readership is one big mound of silly putty begging to be molded.
I’m glad he is pursuing legal remedies to this stolen election - that’s what a dem would do! But I’m pretty sure neither McDaniel or his campaign has any standing to pursue a suit related to the suicide of that poor fellow.
LMAO!!! The repubs are still of the mindset they have a shot at taking over the Senate! Ain't gonna happen!
Anger in MS!? Everyone I know is angry. In MO and elsewhere.
He doesn't have the support of the MS GOP grassroots!
The important thing to remember is that there is a finite number of RINOs in the leadership. And each time one of them is knocked off, by *any* means, it is a body blow to the GOP-e. Every election there are fewer of them.
Having a constituency that is limited to multinational corporations with no loyalty to America, their vulnerability is marked when it comes to turning out voters. Sure, they might put $10 million in advertisements on television, but it might not get them a single vote.
They have been “running on fumes” for a while now. Their “vote for a RINO or a Democrat wins” strategy is falling apart, for the simple reason that a RINO, standing behind a conservative while holding a treacherous knife in his hand, is a *greater* threat to conservatism than are the damned Democrats.
If we can just purge those swine from the Republican leadership, we can finally kick seven bells out of the Democrats, and tear down a hundred years of progressive failure, without always having to watch our backs.
The RINOs don’t have enough left to sustain significant losses. It is a war of attrition with them, and one the conservatives *will* win, sooner or later. And when we do, the RINOs and their allies will be first up on the chopping block.
“Don’t *even* show up at the RNC, because we no longer have a chair for you. Just go ahead and curse us from the media gallery. And as far as your multinational corporate allies go, maybe they are not so “too big to fail” after all.
The article didn’t mention the votes bought at $15 each or the radio ads and flyers directed into the black community that accused Senator McDaniel and his supporters as being racist, klansmen and wanting to return to Jim Crow days. It also didn’t mention that this was a “reach out to democrats” strategy. I thought a reach out to democrats strategy would tout Conservatism, smaller government, jobs, etc.
The GOP prefers a Democrat winning over a Conservative.
“It’s always heads I win, tails you lose with the GOP Establishment.”
I firmly believe that the “Haley Barbour Wing” of the GOP would rather loose elections to the RATS than have “non-members” of their little clique win. It is more important to them to retain their ill-gotten power than to see the country take advantage of new people in public office. And it’s not so much about ideology than it is about payoffs and money from their “monied masters” in the business world ( including the US Chamber of Communists).