Sounds like something Frank Underwood would do.
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Let this be a clear message to all you teabagging radio show hosts out there that want to run for public office. Your kind arenât wanted in public office. Stick with your lousy day job.
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Leading by about 1,700 votes with 99% of votes counted. Charlie beat his challenger and Rev. Alâs man who siphoned off 3,500 of Charlieâs potential voters.
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Thereâs another squeaker of a race.
From the comments section @ WaPo:
- Gooberdammerung -
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" Iâm a lit-tle TEA-Bum, Short and Stout⊠"
" Here is my Anger and here is my Pout⊠"
" They Raised my Taxes â Iâm a useless Lout⊠"
" I got no Power and I got no Clout !! "
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McDaniel will now run for governor and put a whip to the 50% who voted against him.
I saw a headline at HP that said it wellâŠ
"ICED TEA"
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Iâm not so sure. Cochran still sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Given that 46% of Mississippiâs budget comes from federal dollars had Cochran gone down, either MS would be even more of a basket case than it already is or state taxes would have to go up and/or state services slashed even more. McDanielâs extremism and his barely cloaked overt racism posed a threat to an already fragile economy, which wouldnât fare well with race relations headed back to the early 1960âs coupled with a loss of federal dollars. I think a lot of folks began to recognize the stakes on the table and started paying attention. The same was true for the personhood amendment that was shot down last cycle.
There is no doubt that McDaniels squeeze out every racist vote he could muster and as much vitriol and bile as he could generate, but the reality is that the old Mississippi is dying fast and there just arenât enough racists left to pull off a victory against the business community candidate in the plantation state, no matter how much fluff McDaniels tried to wrap around himself as a disguise that he needed to appeal to the unsuspecting and uneducated to whom he tried to reach out. In reality McDaniels was little more than outside business money trying to buy control of the state.
Cochran still represents agricultural interests, which does make up the major component of the state economy, although it is diversifying slowly. What Mississippi needs are lots of good old fashioned voter registration drives in minority communities, as only this will bring the state into the 21st century before the 21st century is over. Dems have 6 years to get their act together, as Cochranâs age will probably doom another term 7 years from now. Otherwise, MS is fertile ground for the Koch brothers to further pollute and subjugate as they tried but failed in this season. It will be interesting race to watch if Cochran does run again. MS politicians are known to fossilize in office.
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You left off two dirt bags from MS Eastland and Stennis.
Probably do just what the Senator from AK did find his place in the GOP line.
So, uh, WhoâsYerDaddy now?
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When the baggers canât win in Mississippi, they are a lost cause nationwide
MS resident here. Itâs not like that. Itâs actually surprising how well the TP has done.
Yes, Mississippi Republicans are very conservative. (So are a lot of Mississippi Democrats, for that matter.) But neither the shock-jock style of the TP nor its slash-and-burn approach to federal revenues are really in tune with the prevailing Republican vibe in the state.
Maybe thatâs changing, or maybe itâs just a one-time flare-up. But there was a reason Cochran thought he could say things like âI donât really know anything about the Tea Partyâ as recently as a few months ago. They werenât a visible part of the political landscape until just now.
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I wouldnât be surprised if that swung some people late.
Was just a rude, smarmy little ad.
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Indeed.
I obviously had no horse in this race and canât stand the GOP but even I saw that as being just so tacky and below the belt. I truly wondered who came up with such a sick idea and then remembered that a lot of Repubs have a frat boy mentality and maybe that is appealingâŠ???
Anyway, just a horrid move. Horrid.
I violated my code of ethics and turned on CNN. That horsefaced moron Dana Bash was going on and on about how this could harken a new model for GOP minority outreach.
Iâm not fucking kidding you. Thatâs how bad CNN is. I still canât scrub that shit from my head.
Serves me right for violating my code.
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The vote margins make me think that this is heading for a recount. If so, hopefully it will be a long, expensive, and fractious recount for the GOP.
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I imagine teabaggers caressing their weapons and quietly sobbing.
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Never violate the code (unless youâre looking for a missing plane).
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Theyâll always have Texas.
The national media wont report it of course but the below the radar dynamic here: Cochran had to move to the left to win. Is this a sign of things to come for estb Republicans to defeat the far right? Of course might be a one off, however, for many running to the right hasnt worked and why not if you stand no chance in a base only election?
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Who says Democrats and Republicans canât work together? Good of Mississippi coming together to be sure that the tea bagger goes no further.
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