Discussion: McDaniel Boosting GOP Chairman's Call To Investigate 'Racially Divisive Ads'

system1 · July 9, 2014, 9:17pm

Discussion for article #224863

lestatdelc · July 9, 2014, 9:38pm

“…been echoing calls from the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to for Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus…”

Huh?

FYI, Ed Martin is the chair of the Missouri chairman, not the Mississippi chair.

bdtex · July 9, 2014, 9:39pm

Hope this goes on for a few months. LOL!

ralph_vonholst · July 9, 2014, 9:46pm

At this point, I am asking Reince to lead us - to appoint a committee of
we [sic] RNC members to get to the bottom of the facts…

Because facts, as we all know, are definitely something, the bottoms of which, Republicans all want to find with all due alacrity.

PS

Does anyone here speak Tweet?

sweetdee · July 9, 2014, 9:49pm

I sincerely hope they aren’t up in arms about an article in the Daily Mail. I’ve literally seen articles posted, that quote comments from “sources” that were clearly from a previous articles’ comment section.

Kita123 · July 9, 2014, 9:49pm

That is what the article is about. Of course the MS Rep chair would not be asking for investigation because they wanted Cochran to win.

wiscojoe · July 9, 2014, 9:49pm

Sorry McDaniel, but Reince is too busy policing the tweets of MSNBC interns to worry about racially divisive language within the RNC. Priorities!

Kita123 · July 9, 2014, 9:50pm

This is getting good. I think they need to call in Congressman Darrell Issa to head up the investigation. These people are really nuts… They even go after their own kind…

dr_coyote · July 9, 2014, 10:00pm

You own it, Reince. Yours is the party of “racist diviseness.” Get used to it, and kiss the Senate and 2016 WH races goodbye.

rskillion · July 9, 2014, 10:06pm

There truly is one HUGE head scratching meaning-changing mistake in virtually every TPM article. I love this site, but you gotta get a copy editor guys -

littlegirlblue · July 9, 2014, 10:11pm

They gotta get a copy editor, they gotta get journalists who majored in journalism, they gotta get the guide to Democratic figures including pols who are doing something worth reporting on.

ncsteve · July 9, 2014, 10:18pm

Actual allegations of “racial divisiveness” from supporters of candidate who spoke at Sons of Confederate Veterans event and then claimed not to realize they were racist insurrectionists.

Summer of the Great Republican Durp Singularity II: the Sequel.

sylhines · July 9, 2014, 10:37pm

You know there are problems in the good house when Jim Crow and the KKK fights over the viability of their names, in Mississippi.

yellowdawgdem · July 9, 2014, 10:38pm

please proceed with your internecine warfare . . .

doctorbiobrain · July 9, 2014, 10:50pm

This guy is utterly a fool. Were he smart, he’d have cut a backroom deal with the party establishment to suck it up and acknowledge Cochran’s victory, while giving his Tea Party base enough red meat to feel a bit cheated but looking forward to the next election and willing to support Cochran. And in return, he’d be promised healthy campaign funds next time and support of the establishment, and thus he could lay the foundation for a much better victory later down the road, without burning bridges or looking like the sore loser he is.

But instead, he’s going on with this quixotic quest that can’t end well for him. The Tea Party is on the wane and the more he upsets the GOP Establishment, the harder things will be for him in the future. Republicans have a long memory and while they’re forgiving of all kinds of misdeeds, they don’t forgive traitors; particularly not ones who keep saying racist stuff heading into a mid-term election while simultaneously making the base hate the GOP more. He’s burning their already slender voter advantage at both ends.

It’s a typical mindset of extremists to feel like “now” is the only thing that matters and if they don’t win this time, the world ends. Playing the long game is for suckers, in their view; which is why they find it so difficult to have any real success as they’re always looking for whatever immediate victory they can grab. And while they love pyrrhic victories, they’ll settle for pyrrhic defeats as well.

chelsea530 · July 9, 2014, 11:15pm

What good is a journalism degree these days?

I agree with your first and sort of your last statement.

jw1 · July 9, 2014, 11:17pm

‘RNC members would be offended if an RNC member financed ads or robocalls tarring Tea Partiers as racists.’

Like water on the Wicked Witch.
Only thing that offends racists? The truth.

jw1

twowolves · July 9, 2014, 11:41pm

My story starring Mr. Barbour; I was working at 1275 Pennsylvania Ave., NW and he had his lobbying office there circa 2001. Mr. Barbour had a clutch of young male interns and he’d treat them to lunch once a week. There was a homeless vet who panhandled outside the building’s front door and Mr. Barbour and flock would step over the vet rather than around him. Told me everything needed to know about Mr. Barbour.

irasdad · July 9, 2014, 11:46pm

“We ran no radio ads that had anything to do with the KKK or race, or anything like that….”

I suppose it all depends on how Boss Barbour defines “we”.

Our GOP masters scrupulously hide behind money-laundering 501©(4) “social welfare” organizations – courtesy Citizens United – to create plausible deniability. G-d only knows how many layers of strawmen were involved in the McDaniel/Cochran race (on both sides).

Ultimately, there’s no “we” in dark money.

occamsrazor2 · July 9, 2014, 11:50pm

Is this the sameDaily Mail that Tucker Carlson’s ace reporter, Boyle, vaulted to based on his Menendez-hookers “investigation”?