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question everything

(52,134 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:53 PM Jun 2014

Conservatives Fume After Mississippi Defeat

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by NancyBlueINOklahoma (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: TIME

By nearly all accounts, they should have had their victory. Conventional wisdom had left Sen. Thad Cochran for dead after a close June 3 primary sent him into Tuesday’s runoff against former conservative radio host Chris McDaniel. The challenger was supposed to have an easy lift after winning more votes than Cochran in Round 1. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprise defeat by conservative upstart Dave Brat days later only reinforced that perception.

But Cochran, unbowed, expanded the electorate, bringing in Democratic voters and defeating McDaniel to almost certainly secure a seventh term in office. The results left establishment Republicans celebrating, having also beaten back Tea Party challengers in Oklahoma and upstate New York. As McDaniel refused to concede in a fiery speech decrying that “the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi,” conservatives and Tea Party activists were left wondering where they went wrong—and seething at their defeat. The results show the success of a sweeping tide of establishment push-back following high profile upsets in Republican primaries in 2010 and 2012.



Read more: http://time.com/2921054/thad-cochran-chris-mcdaniel-mississippi-senate-primary/



Poor babies..
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Conservatives Fume After Mississippi Defeat (Original Post) question everything Jun 2014 OP
Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! Lint Head Jun 2014 #1
Pass the popcorn iandhr Jun 2014 #2
Don't know why they call these people conservatives Andy823 Jun 2014 #3
good tea party folks, you were robbed! Enrique Jun 2014 #4
You reap what you sow. Black folks know what "Tea Party" stands for. KeepItReal Jun 2014 #5
I tell you, it's enough to make you want to misspell a sign TheCowsCameHome Jun 2014 #6
McDaniel Knows he Got Outsmarted lib87 Jun 2014 #7
I'm sorry, this is an analysis/commentary article - Locking OKNancy Jun 2014 #8

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
1. Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:59 PM
Jun 2014

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
2. Pass the popcorn
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:12 PM
Jun 2014

Andy823

(11,555 posts)
3. Don't know why they call these people conservatives
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:13 PM
Jun 2014

They are plain and simple, tea party far right radical crazies who would destroy this country in order to set up their insane agenda to make this country into a loony bid with them running the show! Republicans are bad enough, but these crazies even out due the idiot republicans that are in office these days.

Now if only these morons will get mad enough to run as a third party challenger come November!

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
4. good tea party folks, you were robbed!
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:13 PM
Jun 2014

don't ever forgive the RINOs, the radical lefties like Thad Cochran. You only have one choice, go third party!

KeepItReal

(7,770 posts)
5. You reap what you sow. Black folks know what "Tea Party" stands for.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:17 PM
Jun 2014

Google the phrase "Obama Tea Party", and then look at the images.

*Those images* and the sentiment behind them got African-Americans to pull the lever (or touch the screen) for Thad Cochran instead of staying at work or going about their lives and not voting in an open primary.

All Cochran had to do was ask.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,270 posts)
6. I tell you, it's enough to make you want to misspell a sign
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:18 PM
Jun 2014

and march around wearing a funny hat with tea bags dangling from the brim.

This is SERIES!??!

lib87

(535 posts)
7. McDaniel Knows he Got Outsmarted
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:19 PM
Jun 2014

Entertaining to watch.

McDaniel sounds like an old plantation owner. Bye!

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
8. I'm sorry, this is an analysis/commentary article - Locking
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:23 PM
Jun 2014

not breaking news. Please repost in GD, Politics or Good Reads

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