Discussion for article #223346
For an informal poll, where do you TPM’ers stand on this?
Who would you prefer to win?
I’m from California where we do thing so much more sensibly, so the question for me is which is correct, I could care less or I couldn’t care less.
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panda, isn’t that like asking if you’d rather be shot or hanged? Neither one of them will compromise with Dems.
I suppose the conventional wisdom is no more tea-partiers under any circumstances, but the truth is, if the Repugs win the Senate, the Country is screwed for the next two years.
We need no more Tea baggers in the U.S. Senate. Of course, we’d prefer another Dem to win the seat, but that’s unlikely from MS.
I’m surprised Cochran isn’t doing better in the polls against his opponent.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people saying “I could care less” because what they’re actually saying is that they do care since they could still care less.
Frankly, I’d like to see the Tea Party clown win. There’s no difference between the establishment and the Tea Party except that the teabagger is likely to say something during the campaign that would badly embarrass the national party. Also, there’s always the possibility he screws up so badly that the Democrat ekes out a win. In this case, if the police find that he was involved in taking pictures of Cochran’s wife he could wind being charged. That could force the national party and donors to abandon him.
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The Democrat.
From your lips to a Mississippi DA’s ear!
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I disagree. The reason being, if the Teabagging idiocy fades once Obama is out of office, it’s possible that Cochran will return to a regular, old fashioned willing-to-compromise GOPer rather than a foaming teabagger.
McRacist, on the other hand, guarantees one more blue-slipping ignorant Teabagger for another six years.
You want a pony, too? All these Bible Belters here would vote for Satan himself if he had an ® after his name.
Once in awhile Cochran demonstrates his humanity in his votes which is why the Tea Party is challenging him. As there is no chance of a Democrat being elected, I’d go with Cochran. We don’t need any more bloviating teahadists in the Senate!
Remember, any teabagger that gets elected this year puts us dealing with these shitheads until 2020…
Good points, Plucky and Meri.
This is why I can’t decide! Bitter, angry, openly racist, sleezeball McDaniel does make the party look bad, especially if he can win the nomination (and then be charged for a crime).
Let’s not play that game.
So many people were soooooo sure that Walker would be going down for a crime. And nothing has happened. Nor will it.
Well I’m not banking on it. I keep my money in my shoe, where the gubmint can’t get to it.
Cochran’s very brief and very occasional moments of sanity would be missed, but I’d much rather have Republicans openly behaving like the crazy, hateful bastards they are than for them to appear to be sane. Plus, if McDaniel is the candidate maybe black voters would actually come out in strong numbers to vote against him. There’s no doubt he’d wind up saying something monumentally offensive at some point during the campaign, which would force the GOP to either abandon him or spend a bunch of money they would’ve spent elsewhere. Also, candidates like Akin and Mourdock don’t just hurt the GOP in their state, they help shape the entire country’s view of the GOP.
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Well, if McDaniel wins it I can only assume we’ll have TPM stalking him the way they fawn after Cruz.
MS will finally be in the news regularly!
“Forty-one percent of those surveyed said what they had read or heard about the incident – likely a reference to the alleged conspiracy to photograph Cochran’s wife – made them less likely to vote for McDaniel while 28 percent said they were more likely.”
Twenty eight percent were MORE likely to vote for someone whose minions exploit an old, bedridden dementia patient. Think about that for a while.
Anything is acceptable if it helps the cause, man!
Sometimes you need to firebomb a church for the greater good, you know.
Phrases aren’t necessarily meant to be taken literally. “I could care less” is a perfectly good idiomatic expression. Listen when people say it and you’ll hear the rude emphasis on care, as if mocking the very idea of caring.