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…
Mustang Bobby
So where’s the obligatory tweet: “This is bad news for Democrats.”?
bootsy
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?
David Koch
(Deace, is a wingnut radio guy, denouncing Cochran perceived tactics)
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Senator Man on Dog’s losing streak continues
Kaili wins the internets
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Leave it a “I’m not a witch” to confuse the meaning of blacks voting for Cockroach.
Amir Khalid
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.
David Koch
She’s some big tea party grifter
Of course, the queen of the tea party grifters
Russ
Start a 3rd party? I’ll bet that this 3rd party they speak of would constantly garner, wait for it, 27% of the votes.
Alex S.
I’m glad that bestiality is now politically correct.
Nikki
“@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!!
Sherparick
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.
SRW1
@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.
NonyNony
@Amir Khalid:
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.)
Comrade Mary
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
RaflW
@NonyNony:
The damage will come by way of enhanced infighting among the GOP factions. Which works for me.
LAC
@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.
Cervantes
@Comrade Mary: Thanks, he seems reasonable. Does he write in other-than-140-character bursts?
BruinKid
Gus at Little Green Footballs dropped the mic with this tweet.
Comrade Mary
@Cervantes: Definitely! Look in the sidebar at his site to find links to his full-length pieces.
Cervantes
@Comrade Mary: Thank you. I’ll take a look as time allows.
Jado
@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
DavidTC
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.)