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What a bunch of self important, irrelevant, windbag kooks. Good Lord.

The Tea Party movement is quickly becoming a fringe movement, if not already there, doomed by its leaders' foolishness. It's sad, because there was some real potential for it to have a voice in American politics for those who want a less intrusive government, budgetary restraint and common sense. Not only has the leadership doomed the Tea Party itself, they have imploded in a way that hurts conservative politics generally.

8 days until this total nightmare is over.

The Tea Party is the conservative equivalent of Kenneth Stokes.

Yep, they are acting like a bunch of self important, irrelevant, windbag Republicans posing as bloggers.

Sadly, 10:59 is correct. I saw some real hope at the beginning of the Tea Party movement, but the fringe element nuts seem to have taken it over.

Sadly, I agree with all the posters above.

It' a shame - they started out with great potential to get this country back on track but have been hijacked by nutjob.

How do you shop for a District Attorney ? I expect the McDaniel voters to have a candidate in place to run against Madison District Attorney Michael Guest and Madison Mayor Mary. Their letter should have been directed to their Candidate who has distorted the facts. He hasn't told us everything he knows about recent events and his statements when compared to staffers Sojourner and Brewster are more than laughable, they're disturbing.

hopefully the republician party will have nothing to do with the tea party going forward. Why bring the enemy into their camp.

Ironic that they are accusing Cochran of eroding the right to privacy when this whole goat circus is a direct result of an invasion of privacy.

Well this should go on for a long time. St Catherines should sue these individual tea party members and the Mississippi tea party for their acts which has cost them a good reputation.

Your posts should read "the Tea Party IN MISSISSIPPI".

I have not read of similar incidents committed by Tea Party members in other states.

Michael Guest, while tough on crime, is, like most other politicians, favorable to the establishment. They are a co-dependent machine.

It's funny that so many people rail against "the government", but continue to support the old, ineffectual windbags like Thad.

"It is sickening, but they will stoop so low as two use the sad plight of a dying woman to gain political advantage."

Uh..."Earth to Tea Party, Earth to Tea Party"...this is what you did, and are doing - again. The political advantage bit didn't quite work out as planned the first go round, so apparently you think this ploy is better???

The TP leadership had days to carefully think about its formal response and this is what the best it can come up with? Any movement led by such warped judgment during a crisis deserves the political death penalty.

12:29 Perhaps you missed the last election, when the Republicans lost three Senate seats that were theirs for the taking due to the Tea Party buffoons who were nominated:

1) The woman in Delaware whose first TV ad started by reassuring voters she did not practice witchcraft (not a burning issue on most voters' minds). She also had declared bankruptcy twice and was paying herself a salary out of campaign funds. Not cool for someone claiming to represent fiscal responsibility.

2) The clown who claimed women can't get pregnant after being raped because "their body freezes up" or some similar stupidity. Moronic statements like that drove off what few women were seriously thinking of voting for him.

3) The other ass-hat who tried to differentiate between "rape" and "rape-rape". See #2 above.

The Dems can just sit back and watch the Tea Party lose elections - they don't really have to win the elections themselves.

The original principles were great; the candidates have been a bunch of boneheads. Most voters will go for an old devil over a new god.

Maybe the Tea Party thinks the charges should have been filed in Jones County? It seems like there might be a political propinquity thing in the Laurel area. Maybe they know more than DA Guest does about this.

Classic sociopathic manipulation. Spread fear to establish an 'in group' therefore dehumanizing your opponent to the status of 'it' and bind the 'in group' together under one leader with a plea for pity or pointing out how 'we are under attack'.

Time-honored--and very effective--strategies to win a bid for power, but there's not even a remote, nodding acquaintance with the truth. For either side.

Yea,

Let's get rid of those pesky "tea partiers". The Republicans have done such a good job with our country! Why would anyone want to change things?

An IRS that puts conservatives in its crosshairs?
Our wonderful future with Obama care?
A rabid liberal Washington?

All of you anti-tea party people take a look at the likes of Deblasio and Cuomo in New York. These radicals are your future "Obama's.
Palosi, Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Shelia Jackson Lee, Elizabeth Warren, Harry Reid. Is this want you want?

And you say the tea-partiers are "nutjobs"

Your all idiots and typical of the electorate that got us these RINO's that forgot what being a conservative is about.

Go back to watching American Idol and shut the f__k up.

Trends show that swing voters tend to be more apathetic and stay home, especially when things get this nasty. Democrats usually can get their base voters to the polls. Here is the danger for the Republican Party in this primary, the negative attacks have been leveled against members of the Republican base - "Establishment" vs "Tea Party". With the Republican base in so much turmoil, the Democrats have a huge opportunity. There have been rumors raging that Democrats intend to vote in the Republican primary - some say to vote for Cochran, others say for McDaniel - I would guess it depends on what the pollsters tell them to do. The Mississippi and National Republican Party, are so dis-functional right now, it is almost nauseating. All it boils down to a hand full of individuals who make their living from government contracts, subsidies, and political campaign funds, fighting to protect the hog trough they feed from. Does anyone really think the system will ever be reformed?

I was going to say that the Tea Party is the conservative equivalent of the GLAAD mafia , but Stokes works just as well.

I'm sure he will win a lot of votes by throwing a popular Madison DA under the buss. He already wrote off the entire south end of the state with his Katrina relief comments. Wonder what he has in store to finish the sweep and piss off the delta and the northern foothills?

If Chris doesn't call off the attacks on Cochran, Haley, Guest, Gallo.... from all these fringe groups, his time in the legislature is as doomed as this Senate race. Bad, bad, bad advice.

"Trends show..." Har!

check this out.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636825/3-arrests-Miss-Sen-Cochran-photo-probe.html

>>>If Chris doesn't call off the attacks on Cochran, Haley, Guest, Gallo.... from all these fringe groups, his time in the legislature is as doomed as this Senate race. Bad, bad, bad advice<<<


But there is no connection between these people and his campaign!

link to new tea party video attacking the DA:
TeaParty takeing back Mississippi

I'm going to cast aside the comments about the district attorney to point out some things about the tea party in Mississippi and the leadership of Ms. Lane. First, note the oft-used term "establishment." Well, there really isn't a Republican establishment as I understand the word -- hasn't been one since Goldwater received the nomination for President. I think what they mean is "anyone who has gotten elected." It's a class division term they use like the democrats use "the rich." Second, notice how amnesty has now replaced "free markets" as one of HER primary policy objectives. National debt -- yep, I'm with her. Constitutional liberties -- yep, I'm with ....wait, right to privacy? I guess she lost track of the fact that our Supremes created that right when it wasn't there to justify Roe V. Wade. And then there it is, "amnesty" in place of where free markets used to be. You see, Ms. Lane doesn't believe in free markets. The fact is that OUR MISSISSIPPI tea party folks have really gone off the reservation, mostly because a lot of them just aren't very smart. They didn't stick to what brought them to the dance. And messaging DOES matter if you want to convince everyone to join in.

Wow, You guys MIGHT want to wait for the TRIAL to prosecute and hang anyone.. INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY ring a bell to any of you morons? I LOVE how all have forgotten the dirty tactics that Cochran and his surrogates have used in this campaign. INCLUDING Cochran withhold information from the Police for 3 weeks and then using it to their political advantage including running ads on it. Talk about tacky Yahoos? There is enough tacky to pass around but indicting the tea party because of the actions of a few is wrong.

I'm not a fan of Guest politically or personally, but he is an effective DA. I admit I was a bit surprised when he promptly stomped McDaniel's claim to have been "cleared" by the DA. The apparent loons in the TP control room vastly overrate their influence if they think they can damage Guest in Rankin County in particular. And folks with a LOT more political savvy have tried to trip up Mother Mary in the past and wound up road-kill.

2:59
Between Brewster and Soujouner leaving text and email, nobody had to do anything except watch the TEA boil.

1:09 proves everything we have been claiming about the kooks. that's just the sort of person we want the national media interviewing on behalf of Mississippi! Go back to your cabin unibomber wannabe

Well, the "tea baggers" have finally proven what most of us already knew - they are a bunch of nuts!! Please tell me how do you shop for a District Attorney between Madison and Rankin Counties when he is the same person???

And, on another note - Tea Baggers, you are moving McDaniel farther away from this office every day - actually, keep up your present behavior and you will have moved him out of the State Capitol as well. Please keep it up and we will no longer have to deal with him on any level.

I will be so very glad when election day arrives and Thad can go back to Washington and work for the people of Mississippi as he has been doing. Then the "tea baggers" can all crawl back under their favorite rock!!

I wonder how many people are like me and regret thinking the tea party was the next great thing. I have been slowly getting tired of the overused talking points. Now exposing the nuts in the group has totally turned me off. I don't think someone that follows beck and Levine mindlessly will be the best rep for the state. We don't need a Senator that is a national laughing stock.

Question for those of you following this more closely than I am:
Didn't Sarah Palin endorse McDaniel? Has anyone questioned her to get her comments on this scandal? Has the National Tea Party commented on this case?

This entire situation could have been avoided if St. Catherine's had a Whole Foods on the premises...

1:09 makes a good point. The Tea boys are screwing up, but look at the alternative. IRS as hitmen, Obamacare fiasco, GLAAD mafia forcing people out of jobs because people dare to hold to historic orthodoxy, etc. I'll take my chances with nutjobs over what we currently have in Washington. 3:27 defaults to the tired "its easier to demonize than to offer a relevant point" tactic.

3:35 makes a good point, we don't need a senator who is a laughing stock. We also don't need a senator who hasn't done much more than collect a check for 42 years. Sadly, we don't have much of a choice in this election.

On the Paul Gallo Show Chris McDaniel threw his campaign manager under the bus several times re the the campaign's connection to Clayton
Kelly. You have to wonder if she realized what Chris McDaniel did to her.

Wait, why are you suggesting that there was communication Between Brewster and Soujouner @ 2 something in the morning?

@ 3:23 PM:

I don't know Mother Mary but roadkill terrifies me! Does Mother Mary drive a super-fast giant metal turtle with rubber feet which kills woodland creatures?

Ha! 4:25 knows the scuttlebutt also. "You have to wonder if she realized what CM did to her". Good one.

It could be they know more arrests are coming and want to make those arrests appear questionable and politically motivated. Isn't that also how McDaniel is reacting to this; everything is not his fault and a political hit job even though he is the one connection between the defendants?

"The woman in Delaware whose first TV ad started by reassuring voters she did not practice witchcraft"

Best political ad ever! "I'm not a witch," she said, in a midnight-blue dress against a black background.

... It was a quasi-issue because she'd supposedly been into Wicca or something, back in her salad days. But still. When you're on TV denying you're a witch, it's over.

Charles: I'm sure if YOU picked up on it, SHE did. It's sort of an IQ test to admit you listen to Gallo.

(signing off using one of Gallo's most incessantly annoying phrases...)

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Anyone who votes for either Cochran or McDaniels needs a MRI to see if they have a brain tumor.
Do the voters out there realize both candidates are bought?

Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Anonymous said... ad nauseam.

Do you realize how small and puny you look, afraid to use your real name?

Your man may win but it's not because of his honor or the honor of those who vote for him. It will be because of a degraded culture, society and people.

The only thing more disgusting than a Cochran victory are those who are putting him back in through extra legal means and a Zionist Jew media.

Do the voters out there realize both candidates are bought?

New to this planet?

Thought they were good guys in the beginning. What a letdown.

I have never been to a TEA Party meeting or identified myself as a TEA Party member, even though I agree with many of their tenets. However, before we write them off I'd be curious if any of you can name anyone in the TEA Party other than the few who have been vocal and otherwise in the news recently. Judging a group of people based on the words or actions of a few is dangerous. Both parties need an extreme minority to keep the moderates a little honest or we won't be able to tell the difference between them. Republicans, ditch the TEA Party at your peril. We need everyone's vote if we expect to win. Bill Billingsley

There are people who signed up with their local Tea Party groups around the country who are genuinely concerned about the exponential expansion of the size and scope and power of the federal government. They believe the metastasizing, bullying behemoth in DC is unsustainable and will rob future generations of all the precarious freedoms and opportunities for prosperity we were able to enjoy because some of our altruistic ancestors died to ensure we would enjoy them.

That's why I joined the TP, at least, and that's why all the people I signed up with locally in 2009 did. We certainly didn't sign up for the sleazy garbage now being fraudulently passed off as 'conservative' Tea Partyism by the creepy self-serving charlatans in the CMTP and their ilk elsewhere.

If the Democrats and their allies in the partisan media wanted to discredit a movement which threatened their ever-tightening grip on the nation, to undermine its appeal with rank & file Americans & to destroy that movement's potential to effect change, it's doubtful they could do a better job of it than the opportunistic cranks and repugnant kooks who have hijacked the Tea Party name in pursuit of a dubious agenda wholly unrelated to the spirit of the original TP movement are now doing.

I don't know where this fact belongs in all this, but it's reported that Clayton Kelly is the father of an autistic daughter. He has not abandoned her to pursue a career in politics.

It's being reported that Clayton and Tara Kelly are the parents of an austic daughter. Clayton has not abandoned his daughter and wife in order to pursue a career in politics.

9:03. When will you AND THE REST OF YOU RIGHT WINGNUTS REALIZEthat the voters DONT CARE!!!

What I have always thought about the "tea party" has been confirmed. Jim Giles the ultimate racist chimes in supporting McDaniel and all he represents.

Then scroll up a bit, one of the "tea bags" posted your as opposed to you're in their comment.

These people do not appreciate and quite often disparage educated people, calling them "intellectuals" as if it is a bad thing.

Thad is educated, Thad is responsible and Thad will work toward compromise to make government work. These "tea bags" don't want to work with anyone, they don't respect education and are the biggest problem with the dumbing down of America. If we accept the lowering down of our expectations of education and knowledge they will become the norm. Do you people really want a bunch of uneducated, white trash idiots running the country?

Jim Giles is a tranny. Sincerely, anonymous tranny

Have you read the latest scoop on Cochran and Ms Webber? Well his campaign wouldn't respond although it was asked to do so. (Better to plead the 5th, eh?)

He's a cad! If the below link doesn't work, go to breitbart.com and then find and click on the top tab titled BIG GOVERNMENT and then scroll down.

breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/26/Thad-Cochran-Aide-Listed-As-Part-Of-Spouse-Group-On-Taxpayer-Funded-Trip#.U4QSv1HbYl4.twitter … …

Poor, poor Mrs. Rose. Now I get the picture as to what is going on... !!

Shame on you, Thad Cochran!

That is educated? How do we know and what difference does it make? He writes none of his own stuff anyway. Would it matter is there were subject/verb disagreement in his ads, mailouts or website? He hasn't written anything in years, if ever.

"I'm Thaaad Kackrun, and I aprooooved this ad."

Bill waxes on about the evils of judging an entire group by a few members but goes on to admit that he doesn't know any of them and groups them into one ball of yarn, aka 'The Tea Party'. There IS no TEA PARTY. TEA PARTY is an idea, a philosophy, the recognition of having hit a wall. Those who self identify are your neighbors, your relatives, your church members, your work associates, your golf buddies, the ladies you drink with, your garden club members and people whose houses you pass by every day.

Thad Cochran Aide Listed as Part of 'Spouse Group' on Taxpayer-Funded Trip

Sen. Thad Cochran's longtime executive assistant was listed as being part of a “spouse group” and photographed participating in recreational events for senators' spouses on a taxpayer-funded trip in 2004 to South America.

In captions to photos posted online by the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, Webber was listed by name as part of a spouse group touring local sites and dining together. Other aides on the trip, including another female aide, are not listed in the photographs as participating in the events.

The newly surfaced photos undermine the account of Cochran's campaign that Webber attended the trip in a strictly professional capacity.

And, based on the opinings of Mr. Giles, TP members are also right at home in the local Klavern.

Damn KF! You sure have allowed "thad trolls " to swamp your blog with anti McDaniel squealing ! Pig farmers all!!

... If we accept the lowering down of our expectations of education and knowledge they will become the norm...

That commenced in 1964 with that SCOTUS 5-4 decision. Concidentally, the same year that Thad and Rose joined in wedlock.

Bill, are you suggesting these folks are self-appointed leaders of The Tea Party? If so, why don't those who are the real leaders step up and object to those making them look like they belong in Whitfield?

And, I'd also like someone to tell me an example of a successful candidate who has no clue what his campaign staff is doing and allows them run his campaign without consultation.

I worked in campaigns of both parties and I never met a candidate that didn't know exactly what was happening on a day to day basis.

This is like the notorious Mike Moore long hair photo in the desperate and stupid part only worse. That was criminally stupid, not criminal.

The stupidity is similar. Too many voters knew people who had long hair in the 70s and took it personally. Too many voters know the tragedy of Alzheimer's and are taking it personally.

Then as now, my first thought was " with friends like these who needs enemies?"

An the irony of it all is that father of an austic daughter has become the posterboy for exposing the horrors of Alheimers disease, the consequences of which,along with diabetes, has been predicted to wreck the national health system as we know it.

The true irony is that Pug is still struggling to post a cogent thought.

Intended fat fireman URL where extralegal measures were used against me by the same corrupt judiciary that has intervened in the current campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_poyciBE3L4

There's a reason they are called the political police.

I'll be at the Madison Farmers Market today selling honey!!

1:49 am I expect many self-identified with The Tea Party out of frustration with both parties.

This group of idiots has made self-identification impossible.

No one wants to identify with crazies or with the biggest gossip or liar in the room.

Now, I don't want to imply that McDaniels or his followers are gutless cowards, but why won't any one of them answer one specific policy question?

Mississippi currently gets $3 back for every $1 we pay in federal taxes (thank you, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Thad Cochran). This is good for Mississippi (since we are apparently helpless and can't support ourselves) but, in the long run, bad for the country since it's based on borrowed money.

So, if "Senator McDaniels" succeeds in balancing the budget, as he claims he will do, will he raise taxes to triple the amount we send to D.C., or will he cut money appropriated to Mississippi from the federal treasury? If so, what programs, SPECIFICALLY, will he cut? We already have heard that he would have saved the country from debt by not appropriating money for the Katrina recovery (I guess Katrina was not specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution).

If he can't answer that question he is not ready to represent us in D.C.

I'm wondering if they are stupid or think voters are?

Their push poll starts with " Do you think it's fair that Thad Cochran is exempt from Obamacare?" And it goes downhill from there.

I guess they think we don't know jack the Senate and House.

Democrats ought to be able to have a field day with his push poll.

I can see the tag " Is McDaniel ignorant or does he just think you are ? "

@ Anonymous May 27, 2014 at 9:27 AM

We have a federal debt which is close to 18 trillion dollars and thus leading us toward bankruptcy. Yet you think we are due more money from the Fed at this time when we should be tightening our Fed spending belt?

You sound very smart and I do say this facetiously. You are not out for the USA's nor MS's best interests when we are on volatile economic ground.

Also, you do not know what you are talking when you write about McDaniel's claims. He would be only 1 man in the USSenate. He supports certain things such as balancing the budget. He does NOT support amnesty, he does not support Obamacare, etc..

McDaniel is our best choice. Cochran is worn out and tired. The time for his retirement is NOW! Cochran's credibility is now being harmed due to the latest news on breitbart.com . As a Republican, if Cochran wins, I will cast my vote for Childers, thanks to good ole MS boys who have worked to trash McDaniel while Cochran has a secretary who flies on numerous trips to exotic lands, is considered his spouse in pics dating back many years. They live in the same home- hers, they attend parties together and so as an adult I am suppose to believe this is an innocent BOSS -secretary relationship?

No wonder he is well liked by Democrats and the RINOS... Ripe for blackmailing, isn't he with this relation?

don't think the "Big Man" is doing his squeeze from Adams county?

The tea party had the chance to move the candidates more to the right , but they have forgotten the way to do it. I agree with the less government and lower taxes and less spending , but the over the top actions by the so called heads of this group has made me and many conservatives I know run from the whole group. The stupidity of not working with Cochran , who may become the head of the Appropriations Committee in the senate is just about as dumb as anything I have seen in politics. Mississippi benefittied from the pork that Cochran brought home. If he had not directed it here it would have gone elsewhere as it was already in the spending bill.

The tea party had the chance to move the candidates more to the right , but they have forgotten the way to do it. I agree with the less government and lower taxes and less spending , but the over the top actions by the so called heads of this group has made me and many conservatives I know run from the whole group. The stupidity of not working with Cochran , who may become the head of the Appropriations Committee in the senate is just about as dumb as anything I have seen in politics. Mississippi benefittied from the pork that Cochran brought home. If he had not directed it here it would have gone elsewhere as it was already in the spending bill.

The tea party had the chance to move the candidates more to the right , but they have forgotten the way to do it. I agree with the less government and lower taxes and less spending , but the over the top actions by the so called heads of this group has made me and many conservatives I know run from the whole group. The stupidity of not working with Cochran , who may become the head of the Appropriations Committee in the senate is just about as dumb as anything I have seen in politics. Mississippi benefittied from the pork that Cochran brought home. If he had not directed it here it would have gone elsewhere as it was already in the spending bill.

Funny how we keep reading about a guy that is "tired and worn out" who keeps jetting all over the world with a mistress. Pick a story and stick to it.

All Michael Guest is doing is his job that he was elected to do. I certainly don't want the Tea Party deciding who is going to be elected in Rankin County. And someone please tell me why the Tea Partiers from Madison County come to the Tea Party Mtgs in Rankin County. Is it because they don't want their friends and neighbors in Madison to know they are Tea Partiers? I know of several from Lake Cavalier and Lake Caroline that trot over to Flowood where that Lane woman is leading the Tea Party. Just wondering????

Once thing is certain, all the Harpies are supporting Thad.

2:47,

Maybe they come for the free chips and dip and bud light?

I never thought I'd say this, but...

Travis Childers is starting to look pretty good.

10:18 You spent a WHOLE lot of words NOT answering my question.

Will McDaniels vote to balance the US budget by raising taxes, or by cutting spending? If he wants to cut spending, what specific money that Senator Cochran has previously arranged to come to Mississippi will he cut, and how?

Please answer the question. No more tap dancing and mis-direction. What SPECIFICALLY will he do in the Senate to reduce federal debt? If he can't answer, or won't answer, he has no business being in the Senate, and it won't be worth giving up Cochran's seniority for someone who can't handle the job.

11:25's point is that Thad won't cut spending and that it is more important for Mississippi to have an experienced drug dealer in Washington, DC.

I find it interesting that this press release identifies the right to privacy as one of the Constitutional rights that CMTP wants to preserve. There was a time when conservatives did not believe the Bill of Rights included a right to privacy . . . oh, wait, that time is now.