I'm not going to bother with linking articles. They're on Drudge if you are not aware of them. The issue in a nutshell is long time incumbent republican Senator Thad Cochran "won" his primary run-off election using corrupt Obama tactics, namely vote fraud in black precincts. There was apparently unprecedented turnout for the republican primary in black precincts, and those votes got Cochran past his Tea party challenger.
This primary was interesting as it pitted pretty much the entire national republican establishment on cochran's side and the entire Tea Party establishment against him.
I wouldn't complain if he won honestly. It's not like he is John McCain or Lindsey Graham. However, he didn't win honestly. There will likely be some court challenge, and the mississippi courts will likely side with the establishment guy. That means nothing. We know he won by paying people to somehow generate votes from black names who will never vote for a republican.
That personally offends me, but the question is, is it better to suck it up and vote for him anyway on the ground that his seat might be the one that tips the senate, or, do we send a message? If conservatives and Tea Party supporters voted for the democrat in November, he might lose his supposedly safe seat.
Some establishment candidates who lost primaries to Tea Party challengers have run as third party candidates. The republican party establishment seems to think conservatives have a duty to support any moderate who gets nominated but if a conservative is nominated, then all bets are off.
If this were some swing state where a weaker Tea Party nominee might lose the seat, then I can see the party going all out for the incumbent. That isn't going to happen in Mississippi. Whoever gets the republican nomination is winning.
In any event, the dumb asses who run the party have managed to alienate a large group of supporters, reinvigorated the calls for a third party and shown they are ok with chicanery to keep Tea Party people out of power.
This primary was interesting as it pitted pretty much the entire national republican establishment on cochran's side and the entire Tea Party establishment against him.
I wouldn't complain if he won honestly. It's not like he is John McCain or Lindsey Graham. However, he didn't win honestly. There will likely be some court challenge, and the mississippi courts will likely side with the establishment guy. That means nothing. We know he won by paying people to somehow generate votes from black names who will never vote for a republican.
That personally offends me, but the question is, is it better to suck it up and vote for him anyway on the ground that his seat might be the one that tips the senate, or, do we send a message? If conservatives and Tea Party supporters voted for the democrat in November, he might lose his supposedly safe seat.
Some establishment candidates who lost primaries to Tea Party challengers have run as third party candidates. The republican party establishment seems to think conservatives have a duty to support any moderate who gets nominated but if a conservative is nominated, then all bets are off.
If this were some swing state where a weaker Tea Party nominee might lose the seat, then I can see the party going all out for the incumbent. That isn't going to happen in Mississippi. Whoever gets the republican nomination is winning.
In any event, the dumb asses who run the party have managed to alienate a large group of supporters, reinvigorated the calls for a third party and shown they are ok with chicanery to keep Tea Party people out of power.
