‘Conservatives refusing to vote for the Establishment hack and instead vote third party or writing in a Conservative.’
We see eye to eye on this, and yet I would like to quibble with that statement. This is not a case of conservatives balking at voting for an Establishment hack. This is a case where Cochran’s team smeared the TEA party as racist—confirming the worst bigotry of the black Dem voters to whom it was appealing—lied outright about McDaniel, and STOLE a GOP run-off election by engaging a sufficient number of Democrat voters to override the will of the Republican and/or conservative constituency.
So it is a lot more than conservatives having misgivings about a GOPe hack. It is the question of whether or not to reward GOPe behavior that is far worse than anything Obama-via-Alinsky has used. Obama & co. paint the opposition as backward, dishonest, anti-black racists. Cochran’s team painted members of his own party/conservatives as black-hating bigots. There is nothing on the Dem side to match this order of perfidy.
If it is rewarded, it will be deemed a success. If it is deemed a success, it will be used again & again in future elections. I.e.: the template for defeating TEA party candidates will be to (1) paint them as vile, hateful, disgusting racists, and (2) enlist Dem voters to neutralize Republican votes & decide the election via liberal/anti-conservative, one-time-only ‘recruits’.
That is our choice. To reward the worst possible behavior on the part of truly depraved former-Dems [who must have become Republicans for sheer convenience, since they act just like Dems to this day] and experience ever increasing levels of this toxic behavior, or to stop it in its tracks. If it proves ineffective, it will not be used again.
A minor quibble with a poster with whom I very much agree, but fwiw, there it is.
I was speaking in-general, in terms of a Party Hack that trolls threads to intimidate principled Conservatives who are writing in Conservatives or voting 3rd party for a more Conservative candidate than the GOP Ruling Class stooge.
I was not speaking in specific terms about Cochran, but that heinous act itself justifies principled Conservatives in MS in doing what is necessary to deny the GOP Ruling Class their seat.
It also adds to the absolute disgust and disdain of the GOP party itself. Conservatives like Cruz and Lee need to be circumspect because we are fast approaching the time (if not here already) that the filth of the Establishment GOP will tarnish their image among Conservatives by staying within a corrupted and sinister party run by and controlled by Big Government Statists who loathe Conservatives more than the Democrats do.