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How do three campaign officials come to be discovered locked in a courthouse—one in which primary precinct returns are also locked—in the middle of the night? Put differently, can the race for the Mississippi Republican Senate nomination look any more like playground pretense of what a political campaign should be?
The story here starts with a primary race between Thad Cochran, who has been in the Senate for thirty-six years, and a Tea Partier, Chris McDaniel; each got about forty-nine per cent of the primary vote, forcing a runoff in three weeks. And yet this campaign has veered away from health-care reform to trespassing. Weeks before the courtroom night visitors, a blogger who supported McDaniel made his way into a nursing home to get pictures of Cochran’s wife, who suffers from dementia. (The campaign said that it didn’t send him and doesn’t like what happened.) Two cases of unauthorized entry in one race, which isn’t even at the general-election stage yet, does seem like a lot.
The courthouse, in Hinds County, was locked up at 11:30 PM. The three people on McDaniel’s team—Janis Lane, who is on the board of the Central Mississippi Tea Party; Scott Brewster, who used to work for Newt Gingrich and is now part of the McDaniel campaign; and Rob Chambers, of the Mississippi Baptist Christian Action Commission, who has worked with McDaniel—were extracted by the sheriff at 3:45 AM. The reasonable explanation for this? “There are conflicting stories from the three of them, which began to raise the red flag, and we’re trying to get to the bottom of it,” Othor Cain, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, told the Sun-Herald. (He added that no one had been charged with anything, pending an investigation.)
McDaniel’s campaign said, a little hazily, that its people went into the courthouse “through an open door after being directed by uniformed personnel,” then discovered that they were “locked inside the building. At this point they sat down and called the county Republican chairman, a close Cochran ally, to help them get out.” This suggests that, say, a door closed behind them; if so, it did so with tectonic slowness, since the County Chairman says that he was called after 2 AM. Perhaps there was something in the courthouse that caused time to stand still, or seem to run in reverse. (The ballots from the primary were said to be in a vault and so, presumably, secure; it’s unclear what other records were accessible.) At any rate, Cain, the sheriff’s spokesman, told the Clarion-Ledger, “It’s a fabrication that someone pointed them to a door.… None of our guys let anybody in.” Mississippi is a magical place.
The invasion of the nursing home is sadder and sourer. Cochran is seventy-six years old. His wife, Rose, whom he married in 1964, has been in Saint Catherine’s Village, a nursing home, for fourteen years, and suffers from dementia; according to press reports, she is confined to her bed by her illness. That is the rawest sort of exposure. A blogger named Clayton Kelly somehow got in and took pictures of her, for a video he posted on YouTube. (It’s since been taken down.) There was no allegation, even remotely, that Cochran was allowing her to be cared for improperly, or that she was being confined in some “Jane Eyre”-style attic. The point, if one could call it that, is that Cochran’s assistant sometimes travels with him on trips related to his Senate work. The assistant, as the Times noted, in a story on the incident, is seventy-six years old. Cochran’s spokesman, quoted in the Clarion-Ledger, called the questions about her travel “sexist,” saying that they wouldn’t be asked about a man who, like Cochran’s assistant, has worked in a Senate office for more than thirty years. Breaking into the Mississippi Senate Race : The New Yorker
You can hold me to this - I will NEVER vote for that lying dirtbag Jeb Bush. In fact, I will work tirelessly to make phone calls on behalf of anyone who runs against him in the primaries.. If he gets to the national stage for election and is the GOP establishment's candidate.. I can guarantee you that not ONE TRUE CONSERVATIVE will vote for that bastard.. the 3rd party vote will see higher numbers than usual .. I'm already planning on throwing my support behind the Libertarian candidate anyhow.. There isn't one person that I can think of right now who I would want to support for President on the national stage.
Even though I agree that we are done with the Bush's. Why jake thinks it is "good for you" is because one vote for a third party is the same as a vote for the democrats. Sad state of affairs when there are only to viable parties to vote for. I just wish Ross Perot would not have melted down at the end. I still voted for him but that only resulted in perhaps the second worse president of my life time. I really don't know what we are going to do. What we know is that the democrat party CAN NOT be rewarded over the last 8 years of them being in the majority.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I WON'T VOTE FOR JEB BUSH, not ever.. I don't care if someone fucking waterboarded me.
You can hold me to this - I will NEVER vote for that lying dirtbag Jeb Bush. In fact, I will work tirelessly to make phone calls on behalf of anyone who runs against him in the primaries.. If he gets to the national stage for election and is the GOP establishment's candidate.. I can guarantee you that not ONE TRUE CONSERVATIVE will vote for that bastard.. the 3rd party vote will see higher numbers than usual .. I'm already planning on throwing my support behind the Libertarian candidate anyhow.. There isn't one person that I can think of right now who I would want to support for President on the national stage.
Even though I agree that we are done with the Bush's. Why jake thinks it is "good for you" is because one vote for a third party is the same as a vote for the democrats. Sad state of affairs when there are only to viable parties to vote for. I just wish Ross Perot would not have melted down at the end. I still voted for him but that only resulted in perhaps the second worse president of my life time. I really don't know what we are going to do. What we know is that the democrat party CAN NOT be rewarded over the last 8 years of them being in the majority.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I WON'T VOTE FOR JEB BUSH, not ever.. I don't care if someone fucking waterboarded me.
Even though I agree that we are done with the Bush's. Why jake thinks it is "good for you" is because one vote for a third party is the same as a vote for the democrats. Sad state of affairs when there are only to viable parties to vote for. I just wish Ross Perot would not have melted down at the end. I still voted for him but that only resulted in perhaps the second worse president of my life time. I really don't know what we are going to do. What we know is that the democrat party CAN NOT be rewarded over the last 8 years of them being in the majority.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I WON'T VOTE FOR JEB BUSH, not ever.. I don't care if someone fucking waterboarded me.
Oh, I do like a stong-willed woman who sling a gun!!!
But I'm not so sure about the waterboarding thing, I don't think I can recommend it...
McDaniel is still whining. Now he's saying it is against the law to vote for someone in a primary if you don't intend to vote for them in the general.
That is a lie. And even if it was a law, it would never hold up in the courts. Such a law would be unconstitutional.
What an incredible sore loser this guy is. He's starting to sound worse than Al Gore.
McDaniel is still whining. Now he's saying it is against the law to vote for someone in a primary if you don't intend to vote for them in the general.
That is a lie. And even if it was a law, it would never hold up in the courts. Such a law would be unconstitutional.
What an incredible sore loser this guy is. He's starting to sound worse than Al Gore.
McDaniel is still whining. Now he's saying it is against the law to vote for someone in a primary if you don't intend to vote for them in the general.
That is a lie. And even if it was a law, it would never hold up in the courts. Such a law would be unconstitutional.
What an incredible sore loser this guy is. He's starting to sound worse than Al Gore.
It is the law, but we've never followed it, and it'd most liklely never be found constitutional if someone tried to force it. McDaniel voted in the dem primary for governor once.
McDaniel is still whining. Now he's saying it is against the law to vote for someone in a primary if you don't intend to vote for them in the general.
That is a lie. And even if it was a law, it would never hold up in the courts. Such a law would be unconstitutional.
What an incredible sore loser this guy is. He's starting to sound worse than Al Gore.
Says the biggest crybaby on this forum.. Why don't you report this post and try to have it moved to some obscure location??
There's a pretty good article below.
"What the Cochran campaign did was open up the tent," said Jackie Bland, an insurance agent from Madison who is African American and campaigned door-to-door for Mr. Cochran before the runoff election for the GOP Senate nomination. "I have formed a relationship and alliance with Republicans I never had before."
"Speaking to his supporters Tuesday night, Mr. McDaniel accused Mr. Cochran of betraying the party "by once again compromising, by once again reaching across the aisle, by once again abandoning the conservative movement."
"It's very good for our party, and very good for our state," said Mr. Barbour. "I want to have a bigger, broader Republican party but one that is grounded in conservative principles.''
Cochran's Outreach Effort to Black Voters Draws Criticism, Cheers - WSJ
Hummmmm ..... Black voters helped Cochran get elected. SO .................All of the rabid Kook liberals running around claiming the Tea Party was defeated in the race with McDaniels V/s Cochran .. willful lies. .. Even the NYTimes pinned it on BLACK DEMOCRAT voters SCARED in to voting yesterday by the NAACP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/u...mcdaniel-mississippi-senate-primary.html?_r=0
Recall that in the past rush limbaugh was urging republican voters to go to the primaries and vote for Hillary Clinton rather than Obama. The powers in the republican party thought they would have an easier time beating Hillary. What you saw in the Cochran race was the same thing limbaugh called for. Payback is a bitch. Did you really think something like that would not come back and bite you in the ass?
Hummmmm ..... Black voters helped Cochran get elected. SO .................All of the rabid Kook liberals running around claiming the Tea Party was defeated in the race with McDaniels V/s Cochran .. willful lies. .. Even the NYTimes pinned it on BLACK DEMOCRAT voters SCARED in to voting yesterday by the NAACP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/u...mcdaniel-mississippi-senate-primary.html?_r=0
Recall that in the past rush limbaugh was urging republican voters to go to the primaries and vote for Hillary Clinton rather than Obama. The powers in the republican party thought they would have an easier time beating Hillary. What you saw in the Cochran race was the same thing limbaugh called for. Payback is a bitch. Did you really think something like that would not come back and bite you in the ass?
Republicans should NOT be allowed to vote in a Democratic Primary and select the candidate the Republicans want to run against. It's just as wrong as what happened in Mississippi. Glad you see it was wrong and wish you didn't believe that two wrongs make a right.
Wingnuts had NO PROBLEM with Republicans crossing over to re-elect Joe Lieberman in 2006 against his Liberal anti-war opponent, Ned Lamont.Listen to how disgusting this is from the article above:
"Roger Smith, a black Democrat who said he was being paid to organize for Mr. Cochran, said, I dont know too much about McDaniel other than what McDaniels saying: that hes Tea Party, hes against Obama, he dont like black people.
Another example of conservative hypocrisy.
All of the rabid Kook liberals running around claiming the Tea Party was defeated in the race with McDaniels V/s Cochran .. willful lies. .. Even the NYTimes pinned it on BLACK DEMOCRAT voters SCARED in to voting yesterday by the NAACP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/u...mcdaniel-mississippi-senate-primary.html?_r=0
