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A furious Chris McDaniel refused to concede the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran on Tuesday night, casting a pall of illegitimacy on Cochran's win in a heated runoff battle.
In an approximately nine-minute long speech after multiple news outlets had handed victory to Cochran, McDaniel accused his intra-party opponents of "abandoning the conservative movement" to win without ever mentioning Cochran by name.
"Theres something strange about a Republican primary thats decided by liberal Democrats," McDaniel said, after he was introduced by a supporter as "the Republican nominee" for Senate.
"It's our job to make sure the sanctity of the vote is upheld."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-tea-party-candidate-refuses-040900287.html
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)A nursing home by his buddies is not a problem.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's weird that a single politician can influence that.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)The Tea Party dominated nation of Moronica.
(Yes, I know Moronica was also the name of the fictional country in the Three Stooges movie "You Nazi Spy"
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Note the Confederate flag behind him.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)hatrack
(59,601 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)Takket
(21,683 posts)when you consider that they have basically destroyed the conservative platform that was the GOP until 2008 when they melted down over an African American being elected president. They should be branded as an "oligarchic movement" because that is what they really are. But of course the media would never go for that.
EC
(12,287 posts)is rediculous. The law was unenforceable since no one is going to declare who they will vote for in the general election. So who they vote for in the primaries is moot. How was McDaniel going to prove that Democrats voted in the republican primary? Is he really going to say there were black people voting and that proves that Democrats voted? I would dare him to say something so blatantly stupid.
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)I put nothing much past this one.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And when he's called on it, he'll say you're the racist...that's how his tiny mind works.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)"Confederate-ese" as though it was in the 1860's. Please Mr. McDaniels, stop trying to sell that "we'll never surrender" crap. It's harming the good people of Mississippi.