Jackson Jambalaya

The better question is will Mike Hurst be replaced?

CHS should not have blocked him from the federal bench. Karma, for sure

This will get interesting. Finding the correct county to find the correct judge to enter the manufactured order giving CHS relief so the MS Sup Court can quickly find CHS won will prove to be tricky.

I'm glad Mississippi has turned this corner.

Not looking good for the future of the Mississippi GOP.

No Republican in any capacity of power outside of Mississippi will now support Cindy Hyde Smith! It’s all about what have you done for me lately.
Cindy I would suggest you go on home and tell your grandchildren Me Maw is back for good.
The MSGOP is hiding from you Cindy! You Might get Phil on the phone Cindy.

More so that we're tired of "do nothing politicians". Sit on the party line and do nothing for our State. My granddaughter could have run a better race. (Maybe CHS had no accomplishments to run on, though??)

You don't think she wasn't told to hold her blue slip to block Colum's appointment? Half the MS Republican party would have been in her yard with pitchforks if she hadn't blocked Colum's appointment.

Fire every Republican employee. They all have to go. It’s inexcusable. Political malpractice.

The lesson: Even in Mississippi at some point you need to select a descent candidate if you want to maintain your power. The Dems should learn that from Hillary/Kamala and now it's the Repubs chance to learn. Hopefully before the next election.

Why don’t you guys just go ahead and become full time democrats.

Becoming liberal?

Special shout out to Phil and his clown posse, this one quick trick won't easily be forgotten!

Republicans need to kick the RINOs out. They are unreliable and want open borders

Cindy has conceded.

Sad day for Mississippi a red state went blue. I guess I’ll have to give up my guns and pay higher taxes.

It was time for Cindy to concede. Congrats to Senator Elect Colom. I did not vote for him, but he is now my Senator Elect. Godspeed for wisdom in the Senate.

Phil’s legacy. He should go into hiding. Not exactly a great day for Shad either.

Will Cindy Hide-Smith remain in hiding?

Fire everybody who receives a paycheck from the Mississippi Republican Party.

The hard working CHS put in the minimum of 5 years and is walking away with the pension and gold standard congressional heath care coverage. So don't hold it against her if we hear her singing "So Long Suckers" on
her way out the door.

Some of the commentors on here (which is actually just a few) are telling the world they are having a hard go of it. Which the world is responding "Tough Luck". Turn your ire and blame onto the ones responsible for this big didn't need to happen in the first place election.
Phil Bryant and Cindy Hyde Smith herself. She could have, should have done better. She could have at least tried!

Will Wicker be able to hold his ground with Colom?

Paying attention Roger Wicker? This same tsunami intends to wash you away too.

KF Scott Colom is around and about why not hit him up for an interview

5:59 not true! What we need to do is send all our criminals regardless of creed or color to another Country far far away. No one is going to take anyone guns as long as you’re law abiding citizens. Stop telling that lie!

5:59 the only thing is happening now is that the Chinese are working day and night churning out by the millions blue Christmas trees, bulbs and ornaments. I heard something about a blue Santa Clause suit!

Good riddance, Cindy Hyde Smith. What an empty shell and a joke you are.

Liberals want to ban all private ownership of firearms. That’s a fact. Liberals want higher taxes for more social programs and open borders. He will be a one term senator but he has 6 years to vote yes on liberal legislation

Eh, Wicker is way more active and visible than CHS was. I doubt he has a problem if he runs again.

Plato was right in his writing the new republic

How soon until democrats present bills restricting 2A rights while doing nothing to reduce gas/grocery prices?

I don't believe warmongering carries the day for ol' Roger.

I would rather see a climbing candidate versus a descending candidate.

Hopefully the Confederacy is officially dead tonight. Turn a new chapter and let it go. It’s killing the state economically.

She will receive the same pension benefits that any federal employee receives with a minimum of five years Service.

Don’t worry, nothing will change. Same same, but different.

5:45pm no one wants open borders only a pathway to a good life in the US. This is the Greatest Country in the free World where anyone can come here speak no English and graduate top of their class in our best institutions. Didn’t your family get that opportunity?
Let’s stop the misinformation. Lets strive to be great and not divisive!
Now if anyone commits a crime and is convicted. Deportation is in order.

@7:33 we plan on doing it next Thursday. You’ll need to forfeit your man card too.

The end of Trump and MAGA swept her away with the rest of the Republican candidates who bet everything on Trump. Candidates who did not align with Trump held their seats. Trump will be a permanent liability. Shad and Andy have bet it all on Trump too and will have the same fate as Cindy in the GOP primaries.

only the faces and names change..................the rhetoric never does.

Many of the Trumpers will get through the Republican primaries. It's in the general election that backing Trump is a major liability.

Cross the border illegally. Deportation is in order.

Let’s open the borders and let everyone come in! What do you think?

I can’t belle you people

Mike hurst couldn’t even beat Jim hood. And y’all made him the “leader” of the part.. I’m gonna leave this right here

How much did dirty pants Andy hurt her with his support. Nobody looks like or talks like Andy in our state???

Here's another theory. Michael Watson and Chris McDaniel were blood brothers in the state senate. Both lawyers from south MS and close friends. Did Watson wreck this on purpose? Call me crazy if you want..... .

Drowned in the Red Sea!

https://www.facebook.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/videos/a0e9279e/1507422461204422/

Looking at this in terms of how the campaigns were run, Smith deserved to lose. I cannot remember the last time an incumbent sat on their hands like this. Whoever was on her staff and in charge of her campaign should go on a black list.

6:48 PM I don’t want your guns, and no one is getting mine. What I want is responsible owners who respect guns instead of screeching about their “founder-bestowed rights” every time someone tries to talk about it. Personally, I think constitutional carry is asinine.

I don’t want you or anyone in the working class paying more taxes. I want you to pay less on taxes, healthcare, and food. I also want to close the loopholes that allow trillionaires to exist in the same country as people living on the street. I want you to understand that our healthcare system is set up to make money, not to heal people. As a society, we need to ask whether some things shouldn’t be profit-driven.

I don’t care if you say their trillions aren’t liquid. They’re liquid enough to pour hundreds of millions into trying to buy elections and brainwash neighbors into hating other neighbors.

I don’t want open borders. I also don’t want someone who has established a life here to be ripped away from their children. I want anyone who wants to come here and work legally to have the opportunity to do so. I want our government to take this process seriously so no one slips through and spends 20 years building a life in limbo. I want it handled respectfully and with input from the communities affected.

I also want to fund education so our companies don’t need to look outside our borders for skilled workers. I want to guarantee every American child a good education that focuses on how to learn and improve. I want to end the subsidies that let universities balloon their endowments while focusing only on the NIL cash grab. I want the trades to get more attention at the high school level. I know I personally would have flourished in a more mechanically minded curriculum.

I want to invest in the future, and that’s our kids. Not data centers. Not drone contracts. Not war. Give it all to the kids. Plant the seeds and wait.

I don’t want to be led by soft-handed, gilded-toilet, country-club AI and business nerds. I want this country to start listening to the real day-to-day workers and the professionals in their fields. Stop listening to the talking heads on your rectangle. We need to talk about what’s really going on and start working together. F the rhetoric. Shouting people down doesn’t change their vote.

This is why you’re surprised.

5:41 PM Wicker, Bryant, and Barbour all recommended him at the time.

I'm too left for that

Wow. Never heard her address the voters. She did good. Maybe she should have done more of that the last 8 years.

Congress as a whole was served a referendum this year. Do. Your. Job.

All incumbents should be primaried; run on your record and if short, gone!

I can't wait for Senator Elect Colom to raise minimum wage and lower gas & grocery prices. After all, that's what was said in his commercial he was going to do.

We will just run our own candidate separate from the RINO republican.

And now Senator Colom gets to return the favor and reject every single Trump judicial nominee. It’s the most karmic karma that’s ever karma’d.

@5:44 - Deal

Why did CHS blue slip Colom?

@6:10 pm. Well said. I wish more people would have that same attitude.

Just like CHS did? Oh, wait! She didn’t!

Best post of the year.

God willing.....and I AM a Republican.

A lot of you guys are going to be so disappointed in the new senator when he delivers nothing for the state. He will be replaced next term.

9:53, do you really think Democrats are going to do all you say? They have run all three branches of government before, multiple times and non of that has happened. They passed Obamacare that needed heavy subsidies to function for Americans. You think they will really make healthcare cheaper? They ran on affordability, yet here we are hearing about impeachment and lawfare. You guys thought it was about lower costs when it was get Trump. Now you get the same leaders that were in during the Biden years. You guys need to stop falling for con.

5:45 - How naive can you be?

Or maybe the Republican Party needs to pull its head out of its ass and repudiate Trump and his MAGA worshippers, remember that character matters, and refocus on the middle class instead of kowtowing to a narcissistic serial adulterer and liar and sitting idly by while Trump and his brood cozy up to war criminal Putin and find new ways to unethically enrich their clan. We are not RINOs. Rather, we've been abandoned by a party we no longer recognize since it's been co-opted by a megalomaniac hell bent on dragging us into unnecessary wars and destroying the economy through tariffs and high gas prices.

Her refusing to debate was an asinine decision that made her seem aloof, dismissive of the voters, and over-confident, none of which are qualities we seek in those who represent us.

Cozying up to the theocrats in the Republican Party who are apparently convinced there's a trans person hiding around every corner.

2 years until next election. Do you think a Democrat can be the governor? Look at the candidates running. No one likes them. This proved it can happen again. Can’t wait to watch that play out. I hope Mississippians hold leaders accountable and has the same fire in 2 years. It will be fun to watch.

9:53 PM thinks “constitutional carry is asinine.”

Of course 9:53 wants to ban “constitutional carry.” How will 9:53 and his/her Muslim pals control us - if we’re not first unarmed?

What an ignorant redneck baby thing to say. I paid the same taxes I do now during Biden and bought probably 60-70 guns during that time (would have to check my gunbroker feed for exact number).

When God is judging a nation, He will allow evil politicians to rule the people.

Democrats will destroy the constitution to get back at the republicans

@5;45- You RINO haters are political morons. You do realize that you have to have 50 plus 1 vote to win. I think you MAGA nuts would rather lose by being crazy than win by working with others. Oh wait--that is what just happened.
To all the Wicker bashers--He will do find. He has a great relationship with the citizens and most of all he is not a Trump boot licker.

CHS is Exhibit A why we don’t need term limits.

Y'all really think Scott Colom doesn't own at least one gun? A black prosecutor? In Mississippi? lol

5:28 AM With establishment Dems no. I don't. But that wasn't what was stated.

It was stated that I wanted to take your guns and tax your more. I responded with what I would like to see.

Do I think corporate Dems will accomplish anything I listed? Not a chance.

Do I think the right has a shot at making things better? Not a chance.

Did I think Trump and his crew ever had a shot at making things better for anyone but his boys? Never.

That's the con you fell for. Listening to influencers and arguing with your family and neighbors. Maybe my delusion is thinking the right is ready for a conversation about what the working class needs to succeed.

These CHS and Ole Miss comment threads are nothing but trollfests. I see better discourse on /pol/

This blog isnt even really fun anymore. Do better, Jimmy.

7:20 AM I've met a LOT of Muslim people during my time in service. The thing you need to understand is that there are 8 billion people on the planet. In that 8 billion there will be wackos of every color. 95% of the Muslim people I've spoken to are normal folk trying to work for their family.

I hear evangelicals in the states call for violence against Muslims more than I ever did working with locals in the middle east. In face they were more curious and conversational.

The muslims I worked with loved comparing stories from the bible to stories from the quran. Did you know the only woman in the quran was Mary? Revered above all other women? Do you know Muslims also believe that Jesus will return in the end of days?

I didn't know any of that with my Mississippi education until I started talking to folks. Until I shared a shovel and a meal with them.

Most people are normal folk.

How many times have you heard your buddies say "we oughta nuke them all. We should just glass the whole area". No wonder you are scared. You know what you would do to them and you fear they would do it back to you.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

You obviously don't know when our next election for Governor takes place. Its because you are an out-of-state troll. You don't live in Mississippi.

Some of us care more about smart, well-educated, well-mannered and respected more than about party or race. Collum got the wealthy, successful, educated white vote. We are way past tired of being seen as a state of uneducated racists, rednecks and poor white trash. And now, maybe we can make the money we should have made as a tourist destination!

COLOM vs HURST in 6 years????

Both 5:41's are probably right. She was told do it, but not by Mississippi Republicans and that was her problem.

Except Colom won’t be so callous. If the person is qualified he will let it go through.

This was the wake up call that Republicans needed.

I'll never understand why CHS was appointed when there were much stronger individuals.

@9:53 PM: Your comment is the best, most rational comment I've ever seen on this site. If your wishlist were to become reality the US would truly become Reagan's "shining city on a hill".

@5:41 - that’s not enough for me. They need to start over. End the party, come up with an actual platform, and start fresh. There’s nothing salvageable after MAGA ran a train on the whole party. It’s too corrupt to save any part, just rotten to the core.

Republicans need to kick MAGAs out. Anyone still saying Rino isn’t smart enough to figure out they are what voters rejected.

@6:50 - disagree. If she had debated, this would’ve been a landslide victory for Colom. She had one line - “transgender defender”. She can only say it so many times before everyone realizes she’s a moron. Letting her debate would’ve been political malpractice.

@7:33 - I’ll gladly make a bet with you on this. Name the amount you can afford to pay me and we’ll make it official.

@10:18 - raising the federal minimum wage is way overdue, I hope he is successful. Seems like a no brainer issue for the right wing as well, but you never know with them. The gas prices are fully up to Trump to end the disastrous war. Congress clearly has no war power authority any longer, so nothing they can do there other than to make life miserable for Donald and investigate the hell out of Pete Kegsbreath.

9:09 AM, we became friends with a nice Muslim family. Broke bread with them and our children played together. Both parents were MD’s. They moved to another state so we lost touch but learned from a business associate of theirs He had moved back to their home country in the middle east, but She refused. Turns out she wasn’t interested in going back to the traditional Islamic marriage law that gives men certain privileges that women do not have, particularly regarding polygamy, divorce, and inheritance. No more Burqa’s for Her either.

Know it all lefties are hilariously gullible. But regarding “Live by the sword, die by the sword,” you got that right!

HA!

I hope any politician, R or D, that does nothing is replaced.

11:00AM Fun fact: Colom's dad worked for Reagan

Confederacy is officially dead? Dude the confederacy has been dead since 1865. Go read a history book fool!!!

I've been a on the republican party since 2001. I never got a paycheck. Who is getting a pay check because I need my check.

Congratulations Scott!

Better question. Why do broke uneducated white men vote for Trump and his acolytes blindly and to their detriment?

CHS had a week to work on that speech.

Plus the concession speech doesn't need to make her campaign contributors and wingnut backers happy anymore. Zero fucks to give about winning the election allows her to say whatever she apparently didn't have the moral backbone to say to Colom or the voters before she lost.

Oh yeah that's right. I haven't heard the phrase the south's gonna rise again in decades.