Cochran Smacks Down Strutting Bantam Rooster

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

Congrats to the establishment Repubs and Dems who have just redefined the Southern Strategy: play the race card to scare people into voting against your opponent. Well done.

Oh and BTW, I see you've finally acknowledged the existence of the "Southern Strategy". Thanks, it's about time.

So, tell me; What was the original definition?

Never mind, I'll let Mr. Atwater explain it for you.

http://www.thenation.com/article/170...hern-strategy#

Dave

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by whell

Congrats to the establishment Repubs and Dems who have just redefined the Southern Strategy: play the race card to scare people into voting against your opponent. Well done.

Bizarre reasoning. Cochran has been a senator for 36 years and he is representing both Republicans and Democrats, correct? So why should not a certain group of Democrats (whom he will be representing anyway) choose him over McDaniel.

You are paraphrasing what McDaniel said in his non-concession speech.
From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...y.html?hpid=z1

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.”

I am surprised he did not say black Democrats since this was organized by NAACP volunteers.

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Really? The race card? Whatcho smokin' Mike or have you been watching Glenn Beck again?

He reached across party lines and pulled a reverse Rush Limbaugh on his opponent, see 'Chaos Strategy'. Hell, even McDaniels crossed party lines back in '03 and voted in a Dem primary.

So, is this what "reaching across party lines" looks like to you?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by whell

Congrats to the establishment Repubs and Dems who have just redefined the Southern Strategy: play the race card to scare people into voting against your opponent. Well done.

Every vote whoring politician in the country plays the race card every chance they get. Give your phony-ass outrage a rest.

[whell]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

The veil is getting thinner by the day, Mike. Soon, the deniability will vanish altogether. Can't keep a lid on hate forever. It's a pressure cooker. Sooner or later it will either vent or explode.

Dave

...and we can count on the Dems and their allies to keep fanning it until it does.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by whell

...and we can count on the Dems and their allies to keep fanning it until it does.

...and as far as "scare tactics" are concerned, after the 2004 Presidential election, any conservative/Republican who complains about Democrat "scare tactics" should be beaten with a stick.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

...and we can count on the Dems and their allies to keep fanning it until it does.

McDaniel chose to run as a Teabagger in an open primary and lost and now cries foul? What a feckin' whiner (as are you, BTW). You should be happy that at least one Republican seems willing to reach out to African-Americans.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Every vote whoring politician in the country plays the race card every chance they get. Give your phony-ass outrage a rest.

Here's one vote in support of the "race to the bottom".

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Here's one vote in support of the "race to the bottom".

The only "race to the bottom" results from the GOP having created and kowtowed to the 'Baggers.

[Ike Bana]

I'll just add that if the purpose is to win back the Senate, we would want the Donkey candidate to have the best chance of winning against the Pachyderm candidate. Seems to me, in statewide elections, even in Mississippi, that would be a radical teabagger candidate. Cochran will beat any Democrat he's up against.