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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Mississippi Chaos: McDaniel Charges Voter Fraud ~ Tea Party Leader Commits Suicide

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Previously Related Posts
Poutrageous: McDaniel Loses to Thad Cochran
Mississippi Courthouse Shenanigans

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The chaos over the Republican Senate Run-Off Race in Mississippi continues. Seasoned politician Sen. Thad Cochran was declared the winner last Tuesday, but Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel refuses to concede amidst allegations of some type of voter fraud particularly aimed at Democratic black voters who crossed over for Cochran, although that is legal in Mississippi and this was an open election. In the midst of the election angst, a prominent Tea Party leader who was arrested for spying on Cochran's wife in a nursing home has committed suicide. He had been indicted by a grand jury and was facing a court date later in the summer. Many say he was devastated by the arrest and the effect on his legal career, but it's possible he somehow blamed himself for the loss of the election.

The outrage of the Tea Party in Mississippi isn't going away any time soon. They are going hyperbolic and nearly apoplectic over McDaniel's loss:

This is a win for the establishment, but it’s a win with an asterisk, because it’s so tainted that it might be one of those things where they’re going to be sorry they ever won the runoff in Mississippi.
~ Craig Shirley, a political consultant and the author of two respected biographies of Ronald Reagan, via National Review

This just threw gasoline onto the flames of the civil war. What happened yesterday in Mississippi will resonate for years to come. It will become the battle cry, just like the Alamo. We will remember Mississippi.
~ Richard Viguerie, the author of Takeover: The 100 Year War for the GOP’s Soul

And the McDaniel campaign is looking to find more votes, but local election officials in Mississippi say there is no proven voter fraud, which is refreshing to hear from a mostly Republican state.

From New York Times
The McDaniel camp charged that a partial review of the tallies in Hinds County had turned up nearly 1,000 ballots that were cast by voters who participated in the Democratic primary on June 3 and were ineligible under state law to vote in the Republican runoff. McDaniel aides said supporters were reviewing ballots across the state, although they have met resistance in about half of the counties they have approached.

Pete Perry, the Hinds County Republican Party chairman, said the McDaniel campaign’s claims were “wildly exaggerated.” In the Jackson precinct at Fondren Presbyterian Church, he said, the McDaniel campaign charged that 192 illegal votes had been cast by people who voted in the Democratic primary. But, he said, only 37 Democrats voted there on June 3.

“Instead of making wild accusations which stir up social media with cries of fraud and corruption, it would be much better for all involved — the voters, the candidates, the 500 poll workers in Hinds County — if we let facts enter into the conversation,” Mr. Perry said.


















On Death of Tea Party Leader Mark Mayfield:









A prominent lawyer and leader of the Mississippi Tea Party, who was arrested in connection with photos posted online of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran's bedridden wife, died on Friday of an apparent suicide, the man’s attorney said.
Mark Mayfield, 57, was a founding member of the state's Tea Party and had served as its vice chairman, the organization said.
. . . Police received an emergency call on Friday morning from his wife, saying her husband had just shot himself. Mayfield was found lying on the floor of a garage storage room with a single gunshot wound to his head, according to the police department in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
~ Reuters

Mayfield was one of three men charged with conspiring to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's bedridden wife in her nursing home and create a political video against Cochran.
That incident was one of the most explosive events in the Mississippi Senate primary, which Cochran won in a runoff over Tea Party-backed Chris McDaniel on Tuesday. McDaniel has refused to concede the race and suggests that voting irregularities may have helped Cochran win.
Mayfield, 57, an attorney and state and local Tea Party leader, was arrested last month along with Richard Sager, an elementary school P.E. teacher and high school soccer coach. Police said they also charged John Beachman Mary of Hattiesburg, but he was not taken into custody because of "extensive medical conditions." All face felony conspiracy charges. Sager also was charged with felony tampering with evidence, and Mary faces two conspiracy counts.
~ USA Today

Regardless of recent allegations made against his character, Mark Mayfield was a fine Christian man who was always respectful and kind. He was one of the most polite and humble men I’ve ever met in politics. He was a loving husband, father, a pillar of his community, and he will be missed. We are saddened by his loss, and we send our thoughts and prayers to his wife, his family and friends.
~ Candidate Chris McDaniel on his friend Mayfield

They killed him. They sent a SWAT team to his office, six officers, just to arrest him.
. . . I'm just crushed. Mark's death just kind of puts an exclamation point on how out of control this has all gotten."
~ Pat Bruce, president of the Madison (MS) County Conservative Coalition, Via Jackson Clarion-Ledger:





“A good man is gone today [because] of a campaign to destroy lives,” Keith Plunkett, a Mississippi GOP operative, tweeted. “To all ‘so called’ Republican leaders who joined lockstep: I WILL NOT REST!”
Plunkett deleted the post after others on Twitter responded negatively and accused him of using a tragedy for political gain.
. . . McDaniel allies have argued that the whole nursing home incident was politicized to get sympathy for Cochran in what became one of the nastiest races in memory.
“The politicization of the incident was beyond the pale,” Plunkett said. “It was an attack on a good man that is well respected. I’ve never met a person that had a bad word to say about him. It’s shocking to those in the state who knew the demeanor and quiet dedication of the real Mark Mayfield. He wasn’t the character he was being cast, and he didn’t deserve that kind of treatment.”
~ Politico





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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Poutrageous - McDaniel Loses to Thad Cochran in Mississipi Run-Off

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Previous Related Post:
Locked-Up - Mississippi Courthouse Shenanigans

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The Republican Senate Run-Off Election in Mississippi has turned into a big deal. Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel had been favored to win, but at the last minute Thad Cochran appealed to black Democratic voters who turned out in record numbers to vote AGAINST McDaniel. And thus began another strange night in American politics.

Cochran won the election, but McDaniel has so far refused to concede the race, and there's talk of a write-in campaign, a third party for Teabaggers, an investigation into the election, and general far-right Poutrage.

Make some popcorn and read what happened.

From Time
McDaniel lost in a runoff to the six-term incumbent Cochran by only about 6,000 votes, amounting to less than 2% of the total count. Many of those who pushed Cochran over the top were either Republicans who’d been unmoved to vote in the initial June 3 primary (in which McDaniel narrowly won but failed to secure the 50% needed to prevent a runoff), or Democrats who were inspired to vote for Cochran to prevent a Tea Party victory for McDaniel.
Turnout in Tuesday’s runoff was higher than in Round One, with about 55,000 more ballots cast, many of them by Democrats for Cochran. McDaniel supporters felt robbed; as their candidate took the stage at his election night watch party, the crowd chanted “Write Chris in!”

From Robert Costa in Washington Post
In a bitter and angry speech to supporters in Hattiesburg late Tuesday, McDaniel refused to concede and said, “we are not prone to surrender.” He cited “voting irregularities” and thundered that the “Republican primary [was] decided by liberal Democrats.”
“We’re not done fighting,” McDaniel vowed.
. . . McDaniel has drawn support from national tea party groups as well as conservative stars, including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Chuck Woolery, the original host of “Wheel of Fortune.”



























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Sarah Palin Word Salad On Facebook
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Liberals?
As we pointed out last week (see: http://t.co/y8T64iZQyR), there were several potentially illegal political games afoot in Mississippi to motivate Democrat voters to “switch” over to the GOP for a day to help save a 42 year Republican member of Congress. On top of that, millions of dollars from out of state liberal billionaires like Mike Bloomberg poured in at the last minute on that same incumbent’s behalf. You have to ask yourself why?
When a primary election is lost fairly, I am all for unifying behind the victor and joining forces to fight in November. When an election is questionable, with potential legal violations, politics MUST be put aside and the irregularities MUST be fully investigated. Regardless of party, we owe it to voters and to democracy within our Republic. The integrity of the vote speaks directly to the integrity of those who serve and the trust we ask the American public to put in our institutions.
I told Chris McDaniel last night that I stand with his effort to get to the bottom of this – he needs to know average, but tremendously concerned, citizens want to make sure the integrity of last night’s results in Mississippi are verified. Voting shenanigans never cease to amaze, but they had better cease altogether for the sake of ethical elections. And any GOP “architect” behind these abhorrent voting shenanigans should be ashamed of this Pyrrhic victory for the establishment.
If we find out it’s true that some of the characters alleged to have masterminded this Mississippi hijacking are the same ones who’ve tried to destroy other Republicans’ careers, they need to be taken to task and only be hired by unethical campaigns. Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. And if any news organization ignores a free and fair elections issue like this, then whether left-leaning or center right, their silence will speak volumes.
You can read more about this issue from an article last week here:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/18/MS-GOP-Chair-Only-Those-Who-Plan-To-Support-GOP-Nominee-In-November-Should-Vote-In-Runoff

- Sarah Palin


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From "The Marionettes Remain Uncut" by Erick Erickson on Red State
. . . the Mississippi race does crystalize for me the desires of many to start a third party. In essence, tea party activists are the RINOs. A Republican Party campaigning on making the Senate “conservative,” used liberal Democrats to preserve an incumbent Republican and defeat a conservative. The actual conservatives are the outsiders with the GOP establishment doing all it could to preserve its power at the expense of its principles.
. . . Mississippi is a crystalizing election in that sense. Cochran is, for all intents and purposes, a marionette. His strings are pulled by staffers and lobbyists. They drop him onto the stage of the Senate and pull up a string to raise his hand. These puppeteers are so invested in keeping their gravy train going that they will, while claiming to be Republicans, flood a Republican primary with Obama voters to ensure their gravy train continues.

And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with that. They won fair and square. They changed who the electorate was, which was allowed under the rules.
. . . Unfortunately for the Republican Party the fight continues. And as grassroots activists feel further and further removed and alienated from the party, it will become harder and harder to win. . . . we may just see an irreparable split. Then, and even worse, if party leaders and party base voters cannot reconcile themselves to a common candidate in 2016, God help us.
I continue to oppose a third party. I’m just not sure what the Republican Party really stands for any more other than telling Obama no and telling our own corporate interests yes. That’s not much of a platform.









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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Matt Drudge Denounces GOP, but Right Wing Not Ready to Join Him


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Is Matt Drudge joining the Tea Party?
~ Greta Van Susteren on Fox News

Greta & her buddies only understand the 2-dimensional landscape. Unfortunately or fortunately, Drudge is like a 64-bit program that cannot be understood by a 32-bit operating system.
~ NSD on Breitbart

Last time I checked we are still a 2 Party system that works through a
run-off process of primaries. Which is why we're not France !
Why did Rush Limbaugh Promote Romney ?
Suspect the same reason. No one wants to be France!
~ chitownhustler on Breitbart

The tea party needs to take over the Republican party by primarying every RINO. You cannot do that if you are not a registered Republican.
~ Ronwagn on Breitbart

...These tweets by Drudge are pathetic and laughable. We have people like Drudge, Rove and Coulter to thank for their contributions to the worthlessness of the GOP. When the GOP establishment wants to ram yet another terrible candidate down our throats, they have people like Matt Drudge that they can count on to help push their propaganda and make it happen. And now Drudge has the audacity to criticize the very problem within the GOP that he has helped to foster? No, on the contrary, Drudge is exactly the type of person who belongs within the decaying, useless, establishment section of the GOP, as was made loud and clear with his despicable shilling for Romney in 2012. When the GOP finally dies, which I hope it will, a new, truly conservative and/or libertarian party should be ashamed if they will have Drudge as a member.
~ Country is Dead on Breitbart

Drudge is sure right about the "who are they?" part!
The Tea Party should be called the "Patriot Party" IMO.
They are the ONLY conservative group willing to say what needs being said to promote our Country as founded.
We should seriously consider Sarah IMO.
Republicans are becoming useless as testies on a clergyman
these days. Most are RINOs like McCain, Grahamnisty, Boehner & Rubio. They are useless to our cause.
We also need TERM LIMITS!
Which Republican has authored THAT Bill??????????????????
~ Fred on Fox News Insider

Oh Matt, you are late to the party....again.
~ Prisoner6 on Free Republic

libertarians are scum of the Earth
I want traditionalist, constitutionalist conservatives in office.
libertarians support open borders, gay marriage and legal meth for the kids.
They are not the alternative.
~ GeronL on Free Republic

All the Libertarian arguments devolve to “We want people to smoke pot."
~ Dan on Free Republic

Claire Wolfe was right: “America is at that awkward stage - I’s too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the basta**s.”
All you can do is prepare. In my case, it means water, off the grid power, self sufficient food sources, firewood and PM’s.
~ cuban leaf (we're doomed) on Free Republic

He’s an aggregator. He doesn’t publish anything. He collects stories. Bye!
~ austinaero on Free Republic

Concur with Drudge. Why vote Republican when they have demonstrated that they delight in stabbing us in the back (and the front) over and over again!
They have demonstrated countless times that they don't care one wit about us until they need money or our vote. Once they get that then they do WHATEVER they want!
Send Boehner's kid to be the first to die in the Syrian cesspool. Send Mehgan McCain off to Syria!
You will not get my sons to die for your political chutzpah!
~ Obadiah on Free Republic

The TEA Party needs to form ranks and take over as the Major opposition Party.
~ Dead Corpse on Free Republic

Tweet to Matt: I am registered No Party Affiliation in Florida and will only vote for CONSERVATIVE and Christians who believe in founding Fathers belief system. All others that may have an (R) after their name and are career politicians I won’t vote for them. The lesser of two evils is still evil and I do firmly believe the Dems and GOP E’s are in cahoots with Satan himself and at this point I may not even vote after 45 years these people do not have the best of America at heart.
Freegards
LEX
~ lexington minuteman 1775 on Free Republic

Yeah, lets fragment and guarantee Marxist rule for our children. The Left NEVER cannibalizes itself over purity. NEVER!
I just love you phony patriots who are too cowardly to actually be Republicans, standing around calling them RINOs and gutless.
The stand should be against the DEMOCRATS and our guys will work themselves out. It's no time to be breaking off into little smug groups of "purists" while the country is taken over!
~ Deb on Free Republic

I really hate to be an optimist but this is kind of a big deal. Drudge is MASSIVELY INFLUENTIAL. I think we just came out of the closet. So to speak.
~ Smudge Pot on The Daily Paul

I'll believe it when Drudge and Beck do a Ron Paul telethon to raise money to audit the Fed.
~ economics31 on The Daily Paul

I've been saying the same thing for over a year now, not that I'm proud that it took me that long to finally wake up. The GOP is the rotting corpse of politics in America. Surely a new Conservative party is close on the horizon.
~ WilliamWallace on The Daily Caller

It’s hard, not to lose faith in America, when both parties are dancing on
the deck of the Titanic, while the rest of us stand at the rail of the ship, staring in horror at the iceberg.
The government has become too big and the corruption widespread and pervasive. It’s time to start again with a New America.
John Galt Take Me With You dotcom
~ BRush on The Daily Caller

There is the party of big powerful government, and then there is the party of even more big powerful government. Be very careful Drudge, the truth is treason in an empire of lies.
~ More Liberty on The Daily Caller


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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

GOP Has a Sad About Fiscal Cliff Loss

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I have to admit that Obama makes Bill Clinton look like an amateur when it comes to politics.
~ comment by MinorityRepublican on Free Republic

The Republican Party is dead. The GOP-e has killed it. I am not drinking their lesser-of-two evils, Dem-lite Kool-Aid anymore.
comment by Buddy on Free Republic

It's always the same, wait, just wait until this or that hits the fan. In the mean time the Republicans keep giving in to the left, and now it's Obama they keep giving in to. When will they hold the line until the left gives in? Just once in my friggen life I would like to see them HOLD! But they never do, and they never will.
They hold the purse, yet they allow Obama to stick his hand in and take what ever he wants because they are afraid of him and the media. Screw the media.
It is time to say no, regardless of what you are called or what lies they tell. Integrity starts with doing the right thing regardless of the lies told about you. The Republican establishment controls the party, and they have no integrity.
So because they cannot stop themselves from dealing with the devil, it's time for us to say no to them. We are beyond the brink, it is now time.
~ comment by OneVike on Free Republic





I vote for Cantor for speaker, he will stand up to Obozo.
~ comment by The Beagle Nose on Breitbart

Only one Cannon left.
God.
Let our aim be true.
Stop the Spending, Stop the Addiction !
~ comment by HeReturnsSoon on Breitbart

Is their intent to piss us off and insult our intelligence in the most ludicrous ways imaginable?
~ comment by PrivacyInA9M80 on Breitbart











Please send your checks to Marco Rubio 2016 Presidential Exploratory Committee. Paul Ryan's Presidential Exploratory Committee died today.
~ comment by Calder on National Review

Essentially no spending cuts. We are headed into economic ruin.
~ comment by No Blarney on Washington Times

WITH A DEAL LIKE THIS -> IT IS TIME FOR WEEPING WILLOW TO
RESIGN, OR JUST PUT A BIG D -> IN FRONT OF HIS NAME.
~ comment by justbreathless on Washington Times





The McConnell Tax Hike will become law of the land. Mitch McConnell can and should take responsibility for it.
. . . The Republican Establishment in Washington, DC should be burned to the ground and salt spread on the remains. Republicans who saw Mitch McConnell and John Boehner destroy the last plank of the Republican Party are going to need to look elsewhere for a savior for their party. Boehner and McConnell have declared they will survive. Their party? They don’t really care.
Conservatives must look elsewhere. I do not advocate a third party. I advocate bring fresh blood into the GOP.
~ Erick Erickson on Red State

As it happened, Boehner's attempt at herding cats failed miserably, the House lost any leverage or credibility in the fiscal cliff negotiations and have been left as nothing more than a rubber-stamp on whatever Obama and the Democrat Senate was prepared to pass.
~ comment by Rich on Red State





Boehner is an Ohio Republican, the writing is on the wall. Boehner looses his job if Obama doesn't like him, so he prostrates himself, and sells the rest of us down the river. Boehner is like all blue state conservatives, just looking for cover anywhere they an find it. Our future is in Obama's control and I don;t see too many Conservatives talking about how to govern blue states, or win big blue cities.
~ comment by Wm on Red State

Look in the mirror: you (and me) are the fools. Boehner and McConnell and nearly the entire GOP Senators (and we'll soon find out probably at least half the GOP House) are not conservatives getting tricked into being progressives. They are progressives tricking you (and me) into thinking they are sometimes conservative. This was an easy call for anybody with a conservative inkling to vote against. All the pretend "negotations" between the President, and Harry Reid, and Biden, and McConnell, and then Boehner wouldn't budge, and then McConnell was driving a hard bargain, then....blah, blah, blah, they're drinking Scotch during these "meetings" plotting what the next "impasse" will be to keep dragging you and me along - it's all a show folks! The GOP leadership and the Obama administration and Democratic party are ONE IN THE SAME. They need each other to keep themselves in power. I for one am done being the GOP's useful idiot. 1988 was the last time we had a conversative leader of our party. 25+ years is too long.
~ comment by Brah on Red State

I will be writing a check to the Ashley Judd campaign for the Senate from Kentucky.
~ comment by kipling on Red State






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