Posted on 07/24/2014 5:38:56 AM PDT by nikos1121
When a U.S. president is using the IRS to terrify his political enemies, destroying American health care and opening our southern border to millions of future welfare-collecting, Democratic voters from the Third World, why is a dime's worth of money being wasted on trying to replace the Republican senator from Mississippi with a slightly different Republican?
Honestly, I think these deck chairs look just fine. Maybe we should check on the Titanic's hull, captain.
If Chris McDaniel's supporters want to show what bad-ass studs they are, how about walking across the Mississippi River and getting Tom Cotton elected in Arkansas? He's running against a Democrat, fellas! Or how about walking a little farther down the river, to Louisiana, and helping Bill Cassidy take out another Democrat?
Those two Democrats, Sens. Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu, could well win re-election in red states -- despite voting for Obamacare and amnesty. And tea partiers are still focused like a laser beam on making Republican senators more perfect, rather than beating Democrats.
Yes, it's annoying to see a Republican appeal to Democratic voters to save his seat. But Thad Cochran is hardly Arlen Specter, who was a thorn in Republicans' side forever.
At least McDaniel's allies have a good plan. They're going to invent a time machine and travel back to June 24 to undo the runoff election. Wait -- they don't have a time machine?
It also doesn't look great having alleged Republican activists claiming that any votes from blacks in a GOP primary were fraudulent. It so happens that Cochran has always won a fair portion of the black vote -- and the Democrat vote.
In Cochran's last election without Barack Obama on the ticket, he won 85 percent of the vote -- and Mississippi is half-Democrat and nearly 40 percent black. Even in his most recent election in 2008, when Obama was on the ticket, Cochran won 40,000 more votes than John McCain -- a pretty good estimate of how many blacks voted for Cochran.
But it's really fantastic to have McDaniel supporters out there denouncing Cochran for getting blacks to vote for him.
It's true that most black people don't usually vote in Republican primaries. But they do vote in general elections. And evidently a lot of them vote for Cochran.
When Cochran entered politics as a Republican, he was joining the party that was fighting Democrats to redeem blacks' civil rights.
Cochran was alive when Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt put a Ku Klux Klanner on the Supreme Court (Hugo Black).
He was a law student at the University of Mississippi when the Democratic governor prevented James Meredith from entering -- until court orders and federal marshals changed the governor's mind. Meredith, of course, is a lifelong Republican who went on to work for Jesse Helms.
Magnolia state Democrats were such rabid segregationists, they even segregated their own party! In 1964, national Democrats refused to seat Mississippi's black delegates from the "Freedom Democratic Party" at the party convention.
Republican Charles Pickering risked his life to prosecute the Klan in Mississippi, and Republican Thad Cochran replaced a segregationist Democratic senator from Mississippi. (Ironically, Cochran's GOP primary challenger to replace the segregationist Democrat was Pickering, for whom McDaniel later clerked.)
In Cochran's first political campaign, he won a House seat from a district that was heavily black and majority Democratic.
So campaigning at historically black colleges isn't something new for Thad Cochran -- he's been doing that since the 1970s. This wouldn't come as a surprise to Republicans who knew their party's proud history on civil rights.
Why shouldn't Cochran ask black people for their votes in a primary? The Republican Party was once, and for some still is, the natural political home for black Mississippians.
Coulter supported Romney who PUT IN Obama by attacking
Gov. Palin with his surrogates in 2008,
and she supported the weak limp-wristed ObamaCARe/RomneyCARE
creator as he ... gave up to Obama in 2012.
The destruction of America is due to COMPLICIT RINOs.
They must be removed from “government”.
Ann has spent too much time in DC and NY City. That wasted time has made her irrelevent to those of us not coveting the DC/New York City bs.
> The destruction of America is due to COMPLICIT RINOs.
They must be removed from “government”.
The People are working hard to do it but it almost seems like there is really a one party system pretending to be a two party system working against us. I’d like to be a fly on the wall in the room when so many of the R’s flipped to D’s as RINO’s. I’d like to know if it’s peer pressure, cash in stuffed envelopes, NSA blackmail, or taking a vow to serve the devil...; )
Because many are sure that taking the senate with this Larry Vaughan group of quislings won’t make a dime’s worth of difference.
Some people are DONE, Ann, whether you b!tch at them or not.
Ann is tone deaf:
“The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is asking lawmakers to sign a pledge to not support legislation that would give illegal immigrants amnesty, and Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel is the first to sign on.”
“...and tea partiers are still focused like a laser beam on making Republican senators more perfect, rather than beating Democrats.”
I’m pretty sure Ann has a “Romney/Christie 2016” bumper sticker on her Chevy Volt.
If the party will not let us replace those working against the conservative movement in the primary, we must broom them in the general. Their choice. All the old fossils must go.
Where does she get this “not a dime’s worth of difference” business?
McDaniel is in word and deed anti amnesty. Here’s Cochran:
In 2009, Cochran opposed an amendment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill that Numbers USA wrote would have required “that the 700 miles of border fencing (which was previously approved and appropriated for) be completed.”
The DeMint amendment passed 54-44. Not only did over 80 percent of Republicans vote for it, 21 Democrats, or 36 percent of the Democratic caucus, did as well—yet not Cochran, who was one of seven GOP “no” votes.
The border fence has still not been built.”
She says there’s no difference, but there’s no reason to say that.
She’s like a closed minded old aunt driving some point that exists only in her own head. People ignore that.
Ann,it’s because the lesser of evils is still evil. And when you have to use tactics such as race baiting to beat the conservative you have no moral rock to base your belief system on. The politist way i can say it ann, is screw you and the GOP rinos you rode in on. Thank you very much
Freegards
LEX
There you go again, shoving a stick into a hornets nest. I’m starting to think you’re a Democrat troll... lol
Hahahahahaaaaa
I would listen to Ann’s argument if it were not dishonest.
(Yes, it’s annoying to see a Republican appeal to Democratic voters to save his seat.)
That’s called a straw man. The Tea Party is not annoyed because Cochran appealed to Democrat voters. They are furious that he called Conservative voters racists, in order to get blacks to vote for him. Shame on Ann for not criticizing this unacceptable tactic, essentially encouraging the RINOs to continue to employ it by not making making them pay a heavy price for it. If Cochran loses to a Democrat, HE should be to blame for dividing the GOP so irrevocably during the primary, and not even apologizing for it.
So Pickering actually took positive action against racism on behalf of blacks, at the risk of his own peril, but lost in a primary challenge to Cochran who is better at making campaign promises, pandering, and playing the race card. And McDaniel later clerked for Pickering, and also later lost in a primary challenge to Cochran because Cochran campaigned like a democrat on steroids with more pandering, more promises of federal largess, and even more despicable race-baiting. That is some prize you've got your eyes on Ann.
Ann, you have to know what’s going on in Mississippi, including that Cochran is ill and incompetent and being handled by those who control his Senate seat. His controllers stooped to thugary, deception, conspiracy, collusion, election fraud, FEC violations, lies. etc. You are apparently complicit with them and no better than they are. To you the word Conservative is just a meaningless label and campaign slogan.
Well reasoned and succinct analysis. I applaud you duffee.
IRS backup tapes discovered!
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/irs_backup_tapes_discovered.html
Mississippi ping
Walking Republican Moonbat – Ann Coulter Pontificates The Most Ridiculous Argument
theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | 7/24/14 | Sundance
Posted on 7/24/2014 7:03:03 AM by cotton1706
In the fall of 2011 we quit thinking of Ann Coulter in any terms other than a sporadically useful, but generally inconsistent, establishment GOP talking head. In short, a “Romneybot”.
A recent article reminds us not only why it was so easy to come to that conclusion, but also why this ex-girlfriend of Bill Maher is actually a raving Moonbat.
muggedBefore reading what she actually wrote in a recent article entitled “Eyes On The Prize – Chris McDaniel Supporters Should Work To Take Back The Senate“, it should be absolutely necessary to remind ourselves of her book topic:
“Mugged - Racial Demagoguery From The Seventies To Obama”.
Why is this book so profoundly relevant to the article she has penned? Because the entire premise of her McDaniel article is, well, filled with racial demagoguery.
Here’s an excerpt (emphasis mine):
[...] “It also doesn’t look great having alleged Republican activists claiming that any votes from blacks in a GOP primary were fraudulent. It so happens that Cochran has always won a fair portion of the black vote–and the Democrat vote”.
Setting aside the elitist framing of the words “alleged Republican activists“, because we all know that only people of her high brow approved caliber are real Republican activists right? How does she make the leap from fraudulent democrat votes, the actual substance of the issue at hand, to “blacks in a GOP primary”?
The jump there is filled with racial projection, no? We have not witnessed any of the McDaniel supporters question the skin color of any fraudulent voter, only the registered party affiliation.
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