Hyde-Smith campaign knocks 'gotcha' report that she attended a 'segregation academy'

The Hill ^ | 11/24/18 | Tal Axelrod

[yesthatjallen]

This is the 3rd time Democrats have stooped to scouring a high school yearbook looking for dirt on a Republican.

From now on, every Republican candidate is going to have to remember if they wrote any cheeky comment in a yearbook or if the yearbook can be used as evidence against them.

[LeonardFMason]

THIS attack WILL backfire in Mississippi. This is a Kavanagh like low blow.

[vette6387]

From her wikipedia:

In 1999, Hyde-Smith was elected to the Mississippi State Senate as a DEMOCRAT. She represented the 39th district from 2000 to 2012. In 2010, Hyde-Smith switched parties and became a Republican, citing her conservative beliefs." And this is the BEST a REPUBLICAN Governor could do?

[Frank_2001]

I rarely make it a point in one of these articles to read the author’s name first, but considering the content, I wonder who this “Tal Axelrod” is? Is he related to Obama’s attack dog David Axelrod?

[Drew68]

The Dems are desperate to win this race, the strategy being that a 52/48 Senate will empower a Romney/Collins/Murkowski alliance to thwart President Trump’s judicial picks.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh, heck, I went to a Prep School in Connecticut that was founded in the 18th century. Until the mid-70s, it would have been as white as any “segregation” school in Mississippi would have been (save for the occasional Cuban aristocrat). Going to the prep school wasn’t my idea, and when black students started to come in, some of them had the skills not only to succeed, but to excel. That does not change the fact that the school would have been indistinguishable from a “segregationalist” school just a few years earlier.

[FrdmLvr]

Again! With the high school yearbooks! Smh

[Missouri gal]

So, her DEMOCRAT RACIST parents chose a segregated school for her? Good thing she became a more open-minded Republican!

[stylin19a]

check this out..it's even worse. Nice research by Yosemitest

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3707371/posts?page=29#29

Cindy Hyde-Smith was a Democrat her entire life, winning three terms in the State Senate where she served from 2000 to 2012. But in order to run and win a statewide race for Agriculture Commissioner, she switched parties, not out of principle but out of pure political opportunism. She knew she would have a much easier time winning as a Republican than a Democrat.

But, make no mistake about it, in her earlier career she was a hardcore Democrat. Although it’s hard to know who she voted for in General Elections, her voting records show that she voted in every Democratic primary and runoff until her switch in 2011, so we can only logically conclude that she supported the Democratic nominee in the General.

Here are some of the Democratic elections that she voted in since 2006:

Democratic Primary – June 6, 2006

Democratic Runoff – June 27, 2006

General Election – November 7, 2006

Democratic Primary – August 7, 2007

Democratic Runoff – August 28, 2007

General Election – November 6, 2007

General Election – November 4, 2008

Democratic Primary – June 1, 2010

General Election – November 2, 2010

The position of her campaign is that she switched parties in 2010, and that may well be true, but she did not vote in a Republican Primary until August 2, 2011. a

[miss marmelstein]

Bingo! If things are so perfect in the northeast, why are schools so segregated (usually self-segregated on the part of whites)?

[rrrod]

Just reading about her here on good ol FR she seems to be a ehacko....but we need another R in the Senate.

[Gysmo]

She’ll win by double digits.

[Zhang Fei]

[But, make no mistake about it, in her earlier career she was a hardcore Democrat. Although it’s hard to know who she voted for in General Elections, her voting records show that she voted in every Democratic primary and runoff until her switch in 2011, so we can only logically conclude that she supported the Democratic nominee in the General.]

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There is a core of bitter-ender right-wing Southerners who have had great difficulty viewing the GOP as anything other than the enemy because of the War of Northern Aggression. It was also under a GOP president that white students started being bused to black areas, subjecting them to the disorder and violence typical of black majority schools. I suspect Hyde-Smith will do better than many think. If whites in MS actually remember to vote. The point of these accusations is the juice the black vote. I hope Trump is able to ramp up the white vote with his rallies.

[Mariner]

“She’ll win by double digits.”

The average Joe Blow Republican precinct captain would win MS by 25+ points.

But this woman will win by single digits.

She’s about as bad a candidate as you could find in MS.

[Boowhoknew]

Don’t know, but there are hijinks going on at any rate. We did absentee ballots today and there was a line, with racial breakdown about 35 % white and 60 % black, 5% Hispanic during the time I was in line. We had a issue with our regular polling place last election, and I was not sure my vote for Chris McDaniel was counted. I’m pretty sure the dems will win this thanks to Gov. Bryant falling behind the wrong person.
McDaniels, a lifetime and career length republican was a solid conservative. HydeSmith, meh, not so much.

[AndyJackson]

former Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey Cole echoed

Has this Dim forgotten that his is the party of segregation, the KKK, slavery and secession.

[riverdawg]

“Bingo! If things are so perfect in the northeast, why are schools so segregated (usually self-segregated on the part of whites)?”

A good friend of mine grew up in Dedham, MA in the 1960s, went to Roxbury Latin Prep, and then to Harvard. He said he didn’t know any blacks until he moved to the South when he was a middle-aged adult.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Democrats and their “Lap Dog” Media Goons tried the same tactics with Beto O’Rourke in Texas, Andrew Gillum in Florida, and Stacey Abrams in Georgia. All three lost their races, even with tons of fraud voting that could not save these incompetents...period!!!

Any voter in MS that votes for Mike Espy is throwing their vote away. Just take a gander of what French voters are doing to Paris today (burning down the streets) because of Socialist, Communist failures. Wake up, MS people!!!

[ZULU]

The DUNGHill, publishing liberal crap again.

[taterjay]

The point is Mrs. Hyde Smith went to school where her parents sent her. I doubt if she had much choice in the matter. After all it was not 2018 where kids tell parents what to do and how it will be done. Plus the fact that she was a Democrat for many years. Mike Espy still has a history of being a crook. The Obama children were segregated also from poorer public school kids, so this is not even an issue.