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Thad Cochran Rises From The Dead

Unbelievably, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi has beaten back his Tea Party challenger in the GOP primary. I didn’t think that was going to happen. A Mississippi friend who worked at a polling station tonight said he was surprised to see all the black Republicans showing up to vote. Of course there are practically no […]

Unbelievably, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi has beaten back his Tea Party challenger in the GOP primary. I didn’t think that was going to happen. A Mississippi friend who worked at a polling station tonight said he was surprised to see all the black Republicans showing up to vote.

Of course there are practically no black Republicans in the state of Mississippi, but primaries are open, so black voters were able to come out to vote against Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party guy. Cochran appealed to black voters to show up to vote for him, and they came through. Man, are there going to be some mad Mississippi Republicans tomorrow. Bet Haley Barbour is firing up a big ol’ seegar right about now, that video of his distress when Cochran failed to put McDaniel away in the first round of balloting happily consigned to the memory hole.

I am just glad I didn’t have to choose between Cochran, the exhausted establishmentarian, and McDaniel, running to be the Senator from Talk Radio. Shame they both couldn’t lose.

UPDATE: Reader John Gruskos has a thoughtful comment:

Its a shame they couldn’t both win.

Cochran, if you will remember, was one of four GOP Senators (including fellow southerners Shelby of Alabama and Paul of Kentucky) who voted to confirm Hagel as Defense Secretary – a gesture in favor of a less interventionist foreign policy, and one of many encouraging signs that America’s conservative heartland, the south, is moving towards the paleocon position on foreign policy. (Other encouraging signs: GOP representatives from the south were disproportionately prepared to vote against the proposed war in Syria, some of the most talented newcomers such as Mo Brooks of Alabama also oppossed the Libyan war, Chronicles and TAC contributor John Duncan of Tennessee has held on to his seat [unlike the northern RINO’s who joined Duncan to vote against the Iraq war], and, perhaps most encouraging of all, the primary victories of underfunded conservative incumbants who publicly repented of their folly in supporting the Iraq war, such as the North Carolina Representative recently profiled in a Buchanan column.)

McDaniels is also a good guy. Unlike *all* liberal democ-rat politicians, McDaniel cares about the well being of American workers. Here, for instane, is his position on immigration from his campaign website:

“Chris wrote and introduced the Employment Protection Act in 2008. Also known as the E-Verify law, it requires all Mississippi companies to use an Internet-based system to check the legal status of potential employees. This legislation was signed into law. Chris also introduced a number of other pieces of legislation relating to immigration, including bills to prohibit federal and state benefits to undocumented workers, to prohibit the creation of sanctuary cities in Mississippi, and to require undocumented aliens to pay out-of-state tuition at state schools.”

Its too bad McDaniel didn’t use Brat’s strategy of focusing like a laser beam on the simple economics of immigration. He might have been able to turn Cochran’s ploy against him – after all, the employment, wage and fiscal costs of immigration fall hardest on the Black community.

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