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I'm pressing the "like" button for this statement.

Is he trying to convince himself?

Perhaps Nosef doesn't realize that for the Tea Party , if you aren't with them and their chosen candidate, you are against them.

Neutrality is not recognizable to zealots. Objective and no-brainer observations that don't favor a Tea Party candidate aren't allowed.

Perhaps it's past time for the Tea Party to stop pretending they are Republicans and admit they just want to destroy the party and replace it with their own extremist ideologies.

They have about as much respect for the GOP as Putin's troublemakers in the Ukraine have for Ukrainians.

Unlike Putin's thugs, they lack any clear leadership or direction so all they do , once in office is destroy the good with the bad and create chaos and division.

At least Donkeycrats tell you in advance that they plan to screw you over. You'll never receive anything close to that disclosure from Haley.

Zealots. Yep. They stand for economic freedom, personal freedom & a debt-free future. Completely radical & out of the mainstream.

Haley Barbour is the best Governor this state has ever had. Deal with it.

@9:55 Yes he was...and ended his time in office being the biggest disappointment for pardoning as many people, (200), as some presidents and worst of all pardoning 4 murderers of women and buying 2 of them cars. I know a lot of good people but sometimes they do something so sickening that they can never be forgiven and their actions will never be forgotten.

9:39 - you are so right and have expressed it well. No need to expand on your comments. Just too bad that most in the Tea Party will read over your comments and keep on doing what they can to insure that Democrats continue to run our country.

11:04 - y'all need to get over the pardon issue, or at least recognize it for what it actually was not what the deamonizers have turned it into. 98% of those 200 were individuals that had served their time and had been out of prison for years - many of them decades. I have no problem with pardoning those folks that were convicted of minor drug offenses, served their time, and were responsible citizens since being released getting a second chance.

Does Mississippi need to do away with the "trustee system" at the Mansion? Absolutely. The tradition of pardoning those trustees was as bad a concept as the servitude system.

I just am not willing to ignore the eight years of conservative governance over less than a dozen pardons that I have absolutely no knowledge of the specifics other than what I hear spewed over talk radio. I do, though, respect the concept taught me through my religion of 'second chance' redemption.

The only zealots here is the current regime squatting in the whitehouse. Since taking office this president has proposed 422 separate new tax scams on the American people. 422..

I can't wait until Thad beats McDaniel like an unwanted stepchild. Perhaps then the Tea Party will stop their incessant yammering. The Tea Party will never have broad appeal. It's nothing more than a coalition of people so far right they make the crowd at sites like Free Republic look like moderate Dems.

Oh yea yea, Haley was just a great fabulous wonderful terrific exceptional governor, oh yea yea, great, was just great, wonderful fabulous magnificent exceptional...

Maybe, da pipe talketh???

[and] Thad hasn't done a damn thing to stop him.

Thad Cochran has voted 11 times in the last 24 years to increase the debt ceiling by a total of $7.7 trillion. Every child born today in Mississippi inherits a $53,000 share of the national debt.

But we Mississippians can't talk about the debt. Because Thad, you see, brings so much money to Mississippi. We are #1 in the country in addiction to federal dollars. And the GOP power brokers in this state want to keep it that way.

Paying down the debt? That's for other states. We're poor, stupid Mississippians, with our begging bowls held out to the rest of the country.

And the Tea Party? Radical zealots.

@11:39 Here are the "specifics"...David Glenn Gatlin: In 1993 Gaitlin reportedly drove nine hours to shoot and kill his estranged wife, Tammy Gaitlin, while she held their infant son, reports the Jackson Free Press. He also shot her friend Randy Walker, who survived. Although pardoned and released, the district attorney for the county in which he committed the murder told NBC affiliate WLBT yesterday that he does not believe Gatlin completed the constitutionally mandated requirement that he give 30 days public notice that he was seeking a pardon.


Anthony McCray: Convicted of killing his wife, Jennifer McCray, in 2001. According to the Associate Press, the two had reportedly been arguing at a cafe. He left, returned, and shot her once in the back. CNN reports that McCray was granted a full pardon and has been released.


To be fair, we include Patricia L. Simpson, who shot and killed her husband, Donald Simpson, in 2003, reports Fox affiliate WALA. Simpson served just three years before she was pardoned.

Pardoned in 2008:

Bobby Hays Clark: Convicted of manslaughter for shooting and killing his former girlfriend, Veronica Conner, reports the Jackson Free Press.

Paul Joseph Warnock: Murdered his girlfriend, 18-year-old Carol Ann Hall in 1989. According to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Warnock shot Hall in the back of the head while she slept.


Michael Davie Graham: Stalked his ex-wife, Adrienne Klasky, for three years before he finally shot her to death with a 12-gauge shotgun while she waited at a traffic light in her car in 1989, reports the Biloxi Sun Herald.



Clarence Jones: Murdered his ex-girlfriend, 22-year-old Carla M. Smith, in 1992. According to the Jackson Free Press, Smith had filed multiple assault and trespassing charges against Jones before her death. Jones waited for her in her apartment on New Year's Day and killed her by stabbing her 22 times, reported the Vicksburg Post.


Victor C. Collins: Convicted of fatally beating his girlfriend, Peggy Campbell, with a tree branch in 1994. According to the Sun Herald newspaper, Campbell's body was found in a pile of leaves.


Jimmy Lee Avera: According to the Sun Herald, in 1992 Avera shot and killed his estranged girlfriend, Tabitha Ann Sparks, 24, while she was pregnant, and while her two children were at home with her. He fired 11 shots at her, including one in the back as she tried to run away. Avera had been granted parole before Barbour pardoned him in 2008.

Haley is the dealer, Thad is the pusher and the nimrods like Harper, Henry, Lange, Corder, Perry, etc don't want the drugs to stop flowing. Those visionaries don't care if and when the country goes belly-up broke as long as Mississippi remains highly sedated with the Federal dope along the way.

12:19-Thanks for posting. I had no idea how many killers our past embarrassment of a Governor pardoned nor how heinous the crimes were. What kind of monster would free these people and buy cars for some! Frickin sic!!!

All right, this post is getting hijacked. I approved these comments. Now get back on track.

We have to remind ourselves, Joe Nosef is not getting paid!

@April 15, 2014 at 1:02 PM--well said.

I'm voting against Cochran. He may win, he may loose. But at the end of the day, I will know I did not vote to put that man back in DC to continue on with the same old crud.

um, just what is it Haley is running for? I can't seem to find out.....

We have to remind ourselves, Joe Nosef is not getting paid!

And we're getting what we pay for. Zilch.

Haley Barbour is the BEST Governor we have ever had. Period. Deal with it.

He may loose??? What does that mean???

@2:11 Haley is an idiot, a turncoat RHINO who betrayed his state and his party...deal with that!

Does he have any ties to Frontier and the Barbour/Lott/Wicker cabal that is pushing Thad on the MS GOP?

Nosef may not be getting paid, but he sure is getting reimbursed for travel - no wonder the party is broke!

Haley is the BEST Governor ever. Take away the pardons = best. BEST.

No more Haley comments. Stick to subject of post.

Let's do stay focused. Nosef is not only a bad chairman but a goofball to boot. And if you think he's doing this for free, think again. He and his law firm are getting sweet finance deals left and right. I hope McDaniel wins and then loses to Childers. It would be bad for the country but we'd get rid of all these kids hopefully.

The more Thad's camp tries to sling mud on Daniels... the more I want to vote for Daniels.

And I can't STAND pretty boy, hypocritical trial lawyers.

The only thing worse is entitled, bought-and-paid-for senators who've come to believe the office is theirs, not the people's. And who do whatever their hidden handlers tell them to. I suppose this behavior is understandable when one has been in WA since middle aged folks like me were born.

IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE - the one the voters choose, not the one that Thad's handlers will visit upon us after the election, without even the courtesy of a vote.

I'm not a tea-partier, but I'm beginning to understand why they're so pissed off.

I agree with everything 10:24 has said. The longer the election drags on, the more disappointed I become in Thad Cochran, who either approves of the behavior of those around him or is too out of it to see what is going on.

The cost of travel for Nosef has been a discussion inside the party for some time, he just doesn't get it.

That worn and tired URF speech he gives is a joke, in fact he is a joke!

I am not politically active or affiliated. I don't watch that much TV so I don't claim to be up to date on all the ads that are out there. I am however amused at the way that the Thad camp has been campaigning so far in the ads that I have seen.

I haven't seen one ad where Thad says anything about why he should be re-elected. Everything seems to geared towards why McDaniel shouldn't. Seems a bit curious to me that after all the time that he has spent in office that he wouldn't want to run on his record. Seems to me that he keeps saying, in effect, "I may be bad, but McDaniel is worse." Almost as if he chooses to cast the election as the choice between the lesser of two evils. Personally, I would rather be for something or someone.

Just a thought from the cheap seats, but is is a curiosity to me.

I have recently switched from Cochran to McDaniel. We just need a change for our party to stay together.

I'm with 10:24.

Saw the ad on TV and immediately told my family that I won't be voting for Cochran this time. They asked why, and my response is that if someone has to run that sort of an ad against an individual of the same party, that is flat out lying in obfuscated form, evidenced by the same ad, then Cochran deserves no support from me.

Money and obfuscation is what wins elections and that's why our country is in the state it is in right now. I refuse to contribute.

8:05 and the rest of you bogus piler oners. Thad 65-35. Save this post and read it and weep. McDaniel is an empty, bogus suit.