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Open Thread: Nights Like This Are Why Twitter Was Invented

by Anne Laurie|  June 25, 20142:56 am| 20 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People

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Remember this Tea Party Rs, you were sold out. You were betrayed. You were stabbed in the back by GOP establishment. Don't accept that.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 25, 2014

Straw, consider yourself clutched. MT @emptywheel: Can't believe we're hoping Cochran winning will embarrass GOP enough to re-up VRA.

— billmon (@billmon1) June 25, 2014

Republicans are accusing each other of playing the race card, which is that thing Republicans make you get to stop you from voting.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 25, 2014

I love people in my feed suggesting it's illegitimate for black voters to pick the lesser of two evils, as if that's not 90% of elections

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 25, 2014

So the lesson of this primary season is Republicans win when they don't have the Tea Party Express or @EWErickson on their side.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 25, 2014


I'm guessing the real irony here is that the Mississippi GOP kept its primaries open so the old Dixiecrats could vote in them.

— billmon (@billmon1) June 25, 2014

.@simonwillo Teabaggers: "GOP primary segregation now, GOP primary segregation tomorrow, GOP primary segregation forever!"

— billmon (@billmon1) June 25, 2014

So, the only 2014 upset of a major establishment figure was in a race that the big Tea Party groups invested zero in. cc: grass-roots donors

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) June 25, 2014

.@HeerJeet Not that much different than all the US MSM pundits who found it profoundly significant Obama didn't win majority of white votes.

— billmon (@billmon1) June 25, 2014

Just to be clear, I should probably point out that David Corn works for Mother Jones…

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  1. 1.

    Mustang Bobby

    June 25, 2014 at 3:07 am

    So where’s the obligatory tweet: “This is bad news for Democrats.”?

  2. 2.

    bootsy

    June 25, 2014 at 3:47 am

    Totally off topic, but due to insonnia I turned on my local all night PBS station and they had Charlie Rose talking to Dick Cheney (guess Liz wasn’t invited, Charlie likes to keep the set decoration simple, no potted plants). How much would you bet that the Fox Blonde-bot asked tougher questions? I noticed Rose asked about Syria, was thinking to myself, hey I thought the plan was only to ask Dick about the countries he sent Americans to die in?

  3. 3.

    David Koch

    June 25, 2014 at 4:00 am

    Retweeted by Charles Johnson
    Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow · 5h

    Lying to your base is one thing. But calling them racists and mobilizing your opponents in a primary against them is unforgivable.

    (Deace, is a wingnut radio guy, denouncing Cochran perceived tactics)

    *

    @RickSantorum: Standing strong with @SenatorMcDaniel for his runoff election today! #MSSen https://mcdaniel2014.com @CMForUSSenate

    Senator Man on Dog’s losing streak continues

    Kaili Joy Gray @KailiJoy · 4h

    “It’s just a flesh wound!” – McDaniel

    Kaili wins the internets

    *

    Christine O’Donnell @ChristineOD · 4h

    Hopefully Cochran/McDaniel race will be a wake up call to GOP. Our party has a great platform that resonates with voters. Don’t abandon it.

    Leave it a “I’m not a witch” to confuse the meaning of blacks voting for Cockroach.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    June 25, 2014 at 4:18 am

    Okay, none of this strange story makes any sense to me. In a logical world, the incumbent senator’s appeal for primary votes from outside the party (which are technically illegal in the state, or at least potentially so) would be considered a desperate and cowardly tactic. It is obviously damaging to party unity and exposes him as putting self above party. Yet it worked, and he’s won the primary.

  5. 5.

    David Koch

    June 25, 2014 at 4:28 am

    Amy Kremer ‏@AmyKremer

    If Cochran wins this #mssen race, the GOP is done. They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.

    She’s some big tea party grifter

    @JohnJHarwood Sarah Palin, on @FoxNews, agrees with Hannity it may be time for conservatives to go 3rd party

    Of course, the queen of the tea party grifters

    LOLGOP @LOLGOP · 7h

    Republicans spent $15 million or so to win a seat they could have won for 200k.

  6. 6.

    Russ

    June 25, 2014 at 5:55 am

    Start a 3rd party? I’ll bet that this 3rd party they speak of would constantly garner, wait for it, 27% of the votes.

  7. 7.

    Alex S.

    June 25, 2014 at 6:17 am

    I’m glad that bestiality is now politically correct.

  8. 8.

    Nikki

    June 25, 2014 at 7:04 am

    “@JohnJHarwood Sarah Palin, on @FoxNews, agrees with Hannity it may be time for conservatives to go 3rd party”

    From their lips to dog’s ears!!

  9. 9.

    Sherparick

    June 25, 2014 at 7:33 am

    I thought the Conservatives and Republicans wanted to get Blacks voting Republican. But apparently when they do Hannity, Erickson, Sarah Palin, Santorum, Koch brothers, et al. all get a “sad” :-( Very curious this thing of White Identity politics.

    In most elections, in this Vale of Tears where all politicians are probably up their eyeballs in corruption just to make it through the day, a voter with limited information (and if you rely on MSM your information is very limited) has to choose the “lesser of two evils” (or as Russell Crowe said in “Master and Commander,” the lesser of two weevils”). Given that whites make up 60% of the population of Mississippi and that 90% of white voters will vote “Republican” as they waive the Stars and Bars, it is still far more likely that the winner of this primary is going to get elected in November to the Senate. Cochran is an ol’ corrupt Bourbon, but at least he and Haley Barbour feel some recognition of humanity in their Black fellow citizens and don’t feel particularly nostalgic for either Jim Crow or Slavery or want to see the U.S. Government go down in flames (they like make it as difficult as possible for a Democrat to govern, but they eventually want to control the machinery themselves).. McDaniel if elected would have been the most openly racist, Neo-Confederate, Senator since Theodore Bilbo (and I include Jesse Helms, who at least had the sense to distant himself from the KKK and like groups), and one who would love to see the destruction of the United States Government is as to turn the clock back to 1860. Schadenfreude, it feels so good.

  10. 10.

    SRW1

    June 25, 2014 at 7:59 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    That’s so …. rational, Amir. You apparently haven’t had too much practice with this enemy of my enemy thing.

    Besides, you’re possibly suffering from the illusion that US parties are hierarchical organisations like parties in other countries.

  11. 11.

    NonyNony

    June 25, 2014 at 8:54 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    In a logical world, the incumbent senator’s appeal for primary votes from outside the party (which are technically illegal in the state, or at least potentially so) would be considered a desperate and cowardly tactic. It is obviously damaging to party unity and exposes him as putting self above party. Yet it worked, and he’s won the primary.

    1) You’re applying logic to the Republican Party. Please stop – you will only drive yourself as mad as an Arkham grad student writing a thesis on the Necronomicon.

    2) He won the primary and he’ll probably win his seat. Will it actually damage the GOP? Probably not, actually.

    I don’t think partisan politics in the US works the way that die-hard political junkies think it works. People tend to vote for parties, not candidates.

    (If the Tea Party Grifters can actually convince the Tea Party Loyalists that NOW IS THE TIME FOR A THIRD PARTY PUSH I may be proven wrong. But I strongly suspect that the Tea Party Loyalists are much more of a minority in the GOP than even the Tea Party Grifters suspect and that when push comes to shove, Republicans will vote for Republicans and not for the Tea Party Conservative ticket.)

  12. 12.

    Comrade Mary

    June 25, 2014 at 9:06 am

    Billmon is replying to international treasure Jeet Heer in that last tweet, who is a reason to follow Twitter all by himself. Here’s a few samples of his long-form tweets:

    Broader implications of Heritage members heckling Muslims

    More on Heritage and racial polarization

    Heinlein and racism

  13. 13.

    RaflW

    June 25, 2014 at 9:07 am

    @NonyNony:

    He won the primary and he’ll probably win his seat. Will it actually damage the GOP? Probably not, actually.

    The damage will come by way of enhanced infighting among the GOP factions. Which works for me.

  14. 14.

    LAC

    June 25, 2014 at 9:54 am

    @RaflW: I too enjoy the wail of tears and the gnashing of teeth by the GOP. Especially since it goes against the media narrative of how disciplined and united it is. Karma… The other white meat. We just have to focus and stop sitting on the sidelines wringing our hands and babbling about 2016.

  15. 15.

    Cervantes

    June 25, 2014 at 10:04 am

    @Comrade Mary: Thanks, he seems reasonable. Does he write in other-than-140-character bursts?

  16. 16.

    BruinKid

    June 25, 2014 at 10:49 am

    Gus at Little Green Footballs dropped the mic with this tweet.

    McDaniel demands the vote be recounted and all black voters counted as 3/5ths a vote. #mssen— Gus (@Gus_802) June 25, 2014

  17. 17.

    Comrade Mary

    June 25, 2014 at 11:14 am

    @Cervantes: Definitely! Look in the sidebar at his site to find links to his full-length pieces.

  18. 18.

    Cervantes

    June 25, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Thank you. I’ll take a look as time allows.

  19. 19.

    Jado

    June 25, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    “Desperate and Cowardly Acts in defense of Retaining Power is No Vice” – the ghost of Barry Goldwater, as corrupted by the modern GOP

  20. 20.

    DavidTC

    June 27, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    In a logical world, the incumbent senator’s appeal for primary votes from outside the party (which are technically illegal in the state, or at least potentially so) would be considered a desperate and cowardly tactic.

    Why do people saying claiming ‘illegal’? It’s not illegal for ‘Democrats’ to vote in the Republican primary run-off. It’s illegal for previous Democratic primary voters to vote in the Republican primary run-off, but, uh, that’s exactly why the state keeps a record of them doing so and doesn’t let them vote.

    There’s no evidence at all of any illegal votes being cast.

    It’s perfectly legal for anyone who didn’t cast a vote in the original election for a Democrat to cast one in the run-off, even if they are a ‘Democratic voter’…in fact, that’s sorta the point of run-offs, to get a different outcome.

    But that’s Republicans for you. People voting that they don’t want voting is illegal. (Or, at least, ‘potentially illegal’. As soon as they can figure out a way it’s illegal.)

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