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It is unfortunate that McDaniel wasn't a viable candidate.

Young Conservative bull session. The most interesting comment came right at the end, about the difficulty of openly questioning the value of transfer payments. To me, nothing would be better for all constituencies than to have an open debate on that issue, along with the related issue of the cycle of dependency. We are getting nowhere as it is. Obama could have taken it on, but I suppose the far left would have gone berserk. Those of us in the middle tend to be hopeful, and I am no exception.

Those guys are not conservatives. Dave Weigel is a huge liberal. Go read his stuff and who he works for. Also, how snobbish was that girl - listen to her voice - DC Insider i suppose.

I hear you, 12:32, but the conversation was dominated by the guy from The Federalist, as well as the incredibly snobbish woman that you accurately depict. I may have been wrong to assume that she was coming from the Right, but she sounded like it. They all seemed ignorant of why it was so important for Mississippi that the Cochran team pull out all the stops. Anyway, speech is free.

And, all of these folks are only continuing the conversation that has been fed to the national 'right media" folks from the McDaniel campaign. Repeating the 'race-baiting' allegation against the "Barbours" has been Chris's rallying cry, when the radio ads have been proven to be nowhere associated with the campaign or with 'the barbours'. Same with all their other crap - reckon any of them know anything first hand about what 'actually' happened in MS this summer? Probably about as much as they know first hand about what happened in MS in Freedom Summer.

5:07 - you are so true - they think they are laughing at MS when the reverse is true - we just laugh at how smart they think they are. That woman certainly thinks she's smarter than anybody from lowly Mississippi...

Panel of McD fools.

I really wonder what would have happened this year if Cochran decided NOT to seek re-election and there was a wide-open race. I have heard that the 'fix' is in for Cochran to run so a replacement can be named in 3 years + 1 day. Is this really the way politics works?

@ 9:47 Of course.

The problem with the Huffpo piece is that it was the Barbours who got Cochran in trouble in the first place. They have totally under estimated the ignorance huge numbers of Tea Party members in Mississippi. Most of them could not pass a fifth grade civics test. They think Rush Limbaugh reports "the news." And their are almost 200,000 of these poor, gullible souls in this state. The Barbours didn't "save" Cochran, they almost got him beat. It wasn't until the rest of the state woke up and saw what was about to happen that the millionaires in th "Club for Growth" lost their effort to buy a Mississippi Senate seat.

We did get a primary contest at least. The Republicans proved that they are not a machine. That is to their credit. The political formula for the victor, however, was mechanical and traditional-"That guy is a racist"

Nice job describing the ignorance of huge numbers of Tea Party members with an illiterate post.

And some of you dunces actually thought the Huey Long machine was corrupt. Or that of Edwin Edwards. Or Bilbo. Hell, all of them pale in comparison to Haley's machine. However, the death of his ambition will be all these silly sophomores and the group fresh out of the frat house who still congregate in The Grove for Boiled Possum on game day.

Penny loafers and blue/red bow ties will never reign.

Instead of arguing about whether Daniels and his cronies or Barbour and his cronies are the most embarrassing to our State, perhaps we should be asking ourselves how we let them be in a position to embarrass us!

Haley's machine is worse than Huey's? Haley wishes it were so. You're just plain ignorant.

8:38, you are correct....and sadly, this is how we ended up

7:55, as lovingly as possible, you have been feeding at the wrong trough...

just curious, fish, what are your buddies at barbour-world paying for votes this go-round in the general election?

depending, maybe there is a slight chance after all that i'd vote for that old fool they're running who likes to "do indecent things to animals"l.....(but not much of one, unless they paid off the mortgage or something...8-)