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  • Posted by $ Mimi 9 years, 10 months ago
    Rut-roh is right. I’m sorry, but no Tea Party candidate other than Ted Cruz is worth risking losing this possible chance to take the Senate. You want to stop Obama’s federal appointments? You want to force Obama into a position where instead of making shady decisions in shadows he is forced to be openly-hostile, risking tripping over his own brand of bending? We need Obama to cross a line that everyone, including the mainstream can’t stomach. We need him ineffectual the last years in office. We need the Senate more than we need to send a message to the Republican party about how ‘unhappy’ we are. Eric Cantor should behind the candidate he lost to pronto, and this Tea Party candidate should admit defeat and get behind the candidate he lost to. Otherwise, everyone is falling into the trap the Dems laid and we will be stuck with Harry Reid. WE NEED the Senate. That’s the only thing I am concerned about winning this fall. I don’t care who wins their races, just as long as the Senate is a win.

    Collateral damage. Deal with it.
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    • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 10 months ago
      The problem Mimi is that Thad Cochran has been in the Senate for 42 years. Who knows how many "deals" he will strike even if the Republicans take the Senate. If they get the majority it will be by a slim margin and all the Fuhrer will need is for a couple of Rhinos to sell out. We need solid votes to stop the madness.
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      • Posted by $ Mimi 9 years, 10 months ago
        http://www.factcheck.org/2014/05/twistin...

        I don’t kid myself The Tea Party has just as much potential of becoming just another organization in which candidates tell you what you want to hear.

        Since Reid changed the rules of the Senate, a majority vote belongs to whoever controls the Senate.
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        • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 10 months ago
          Gaining control is important but many of the votes cited were meaningless. The bills were going to be voted down anyway so Cochran could vote no and use it to show he is with us on those issues. I trust the TEA party candidate a little more which isn't that much.
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
        Besides, the only way that TC won was with cross-over Dem votes. That doesn't bode well for the fall when those Dems will migrate back to their own candidate and the TP right stays home. We need McDaniel to be victorious in a recount/re-evaluation so that they Dems are depressed and the TP right has a reason to get out and vote.

        If TC had any honor he'd look at the outcome, realize it for what it is and withdraw, and enthusiastically endorse McDaniel. Like that would ever happen.
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        • Posted by $ Mimi 9 years, 10 months ago
          Why would TC do that??? The better man won throwing everything but the kitchen sink at his opponent.

          An honorable man wouldn’t *cry foul* in public at the end of the race. Fine, he doesn’t want to concede until he checks the records of who voted? Then, he could have stated that and thanked McDaniels for a campaign fought hard. No, this guy wants to rabble-rouse the mob on national television moments after the race is called. No offense, but that’s a tried-and-true Dem tactic. Too bad he wasn’t that interested in winning before the end.
          It’s not McDaniels crime if Dems voted. Dems pull this kind of garbage all the time. It means he has a team that wanted to win and used every available option, including, I guess, a nuke-option.

          HARRY REID HAS TO GO!!!!
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          • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
            TC is going to lose in Nov. Mark my words.
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            • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 10 months ago
              Not just Cochoran.
              The base is *SO PISSED OFF* that the GOP-e won by calling the Tea Party a bunch of racists that we have reached a tipping point.

              I guaran-damn-tee you that Cochoran will lose because the base will stay home as a protest vote.

              I can see the base doing the same to punish Boehnor, Graham, McCain, etc. as well.

              The GOP-e has pulled their "who else you gonna vote for?" BS one too many times.

              They screwed the pooch big time.
              They will be punished at the ballot box.
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              • Posted by $ Mimi 9 years, 10 months ago
                No Eud, that won’t be punished. I will. I can’t take another freakin year of Reid.
                The assumption is these Dems voted in both primaries? But what if they didn’t? What if they are ticked off about Obamacare or the EPA or the lack of border security or their own job security? What if they wanted to vote for a Republican in the fall to make a statement? It is in the realm of possibility. It is the deep South. The Tea Party pulled this nonsense last election and cost us the Senate. Please, no repeats.
                You are giving the GOP too much credit and the Mississippi people none. McDaniel didn’t have the money and support of locals. He had the support, money and muscle of the National Tea Party group. They flooded this regional race.

                Damn them all.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
    This could get veeerrrry interestin'..

    "Cole said the process moves fairly quickly, at least until it gets to a court proceeding. “I’ve seen it go from executive committee to circuit court to state Supreme Court in elections like this,” he said. “It’s all fast-tracked. The candidate has 10 days to inspect the boxes. Then the executive committee has to respond to a request for a hearing on a challenge within 10 or 12 days. Before the end of the month, you could proceed from the inspection process to the circuit court trial.”

    “You never know” how long a court process would take, Cole added, because it depends on who the judge selected is."

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...
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