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The McDaniel campaign was a family affair in my house. My teenagers got their first taste of politics by attending rallies his rallies and waving signs for him. My seventeen year old was going to vote McDaniel in his first vote ever. This past primary was the first primary my wife ever voted for and her parents who haven't voted in years also turned out. It was quite the movement.

This is what Mark Levin said after the runoff:

“If I lived in Mississippi, I would not vote for Thad Cochran, because Thad Cochran has besmirched me.

Thad Cochran has told Democrats, minorities, liberals, anybody who would listen that I’m a racist and that I want to stop black people from voting.

People assigned to him, people associated with him — Cochran hasn’t denounced any of this. Mitch McConnell hasn’t denounced any of this. John McCain hasn’t denounced any of this. Haley Barbour hasn’t denounced any of this.

They’re having a party! They won!

They won, and why? They’re so desperate to keep a constitutional conservative out of the Senate? They’re so desperate to protect a man in the early stages of dementia, because he’ll vote the way they want him to vote, because they can control him?

And that’s what we’ve become? That’s what the party of Lincoln has become? The party of Abraham Lincoln has become the party of race-baiting and food stamps? The party of Ronald Reagan has become the party of race-baiting and food stamps?

This is what happens when you have no principles. This is what happens when you’ve lost your moorings.

Reagan appealed to conservative Democrats on a cultural level. He appealed to their highest aspirations, not fear mongering, not race baiting, not by promoting big government programs.

No, there’s no way Thad Cochran would get my vote. I’d be betraying myself.”

Now I am a free thinker and don't have to do what the talk radio hosts tell me, but his sentiments square right with mine.

You can get all pious on me if you want. If Cochran loses by a vote call me out that Wednesday after the election.