Jackson Jambalaya

It is sad that McDaniel appeared to have a promising political career, but this mockery of a contest has tainted his prospects.

A note to politicians/aspiring politicians--a loss does not mean all is lost.

McDaniel's prototype, Ronald Reagan, didn't win his first two bids as President. He ran for a third time and won by a landslide.

We have laughed for months, but this situation has been one of the saddest things I've seen in a long time in Mississippi. Especially when compounded with the conspiracies and death.

11:50 AM I agree with you and I might add that if you have political aspirations, do not host a radio talk show.

... has tainted his prospects.

You wish that but you don't know that.

12:49 Forget your meds today?

A fine example of how a judge (or an attorney) is supposed to ascertain and interpret the law. This transcript would be a good teaching tool for 1L's.

As Ann Coulter pointed out, those who have challenged elections in the past have never to be able to come back from that. Especially magnified here the way McD and Tyner overpromised their challenge, tried to stick it to the 82 Circuit Clerks, told 46 Circuit Clerks to get their original election documents (a huge volume) to Laurel by week's end pronto, and especially stuck it to the voters of both parties in some of Mississippi's most populous counties (like Hinds, Madison, Lafayette), saying they wanted all their votes thrown out, and disrespected the votes of black citizens wanting to exercise the right to vote in the Republican primary and run-off, McDaniel will never be able to be elected again outside Ellisville. His law firm may have something to say to him about ever running again as well one would think.

@2:13, I hope and pray you are right. However, all one has to do is look at his facebook page to see there are many who will drink any kool-aid he tells them to drink, all over this state.

Of course, my theory all along is that he's doing all this to get on the Tea Party speaking circuit or to parlay it into a national radio gig.

Based on Tyner's comments regarding the appeal, as quoted on the CL website, McDaniel and he still do not understand they cannot win in the argument on the merits on the bases of party raiding and influencing Democrats to vote in the GOP primary or runoff. Any law based on voter intent is unenforceable, and any challenge, if permitted at all, to voters based on intent of the voter as to the general election must come before the vote is cast, not after. No way on earth would a court try to discern voter intent in the manner proposed by McDaniel. As has been pointed out, he has no standing to challenge the constitutionality of the primary statues because the right to challenge on associational rights belongs exclusively to the party and not an individual. The case law is well-settled on that point. I note that it is interesting that no mention in the comments quoted was made that the merits would be based on vote buying and other unsubstantiated allegations of fraud. If by some unlikely event the MSSCT reverses McGehee, there is no case on the merits left.

4:39 pm They likely understand that perfectly well but know that the remaining McDaniel supporters don't and won't pony up if they fold.

They are making sure they milk every dime from their " marks".

I don't get where people are saying Chris had a promising political career if he hadn't done this. Before all of this happened, I didn't vote for him because of his lack of a record. He hasn't proven to me he gets much done. Constantly berating Senator Cochran's stances is fine, but be able to expound on how you would be better; he focused too much on Cochran and didn't have a background to convince me he'd be the better option. Further hearing more of his stances in the Senate give me more pause.

He was a poor choice for a Senate candidate, period. I don't get why there wasn't a better option to begin with. Before someone else says it, I do realize this "poor choice" almost was our nominee. Scary stuff, IMO.