Shorter Erick Erickson: “I’m not in this for the money, so please make a donation to the Senate Conservatives Fund who, by the way, will
be sponsoring the RedState Gathering this year, for the first time.”
The SCF has just sent $70,000 to the Chris McDaniel campaign to help him continue to harass the Republican nominee, Thad Cochran. Meanwhile, Dana Milbank humorously compares McDaniel’s refusal to give up to Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who did not surrender until 1974.
The Cochran campaign has their own problems with how they accounted for their payments to volunteers. This will only heighten the rumors that they paid for votes.
Travis Childers is a very fortunate man. The right is doing all his work for him. I’m beginning to wonder if he might just be the favorite in this race. The anger against Cochran has reached Obama Derangement Syndrome levels, and we know that kind of fever doesn’t go away until the politician leaves office and a good deal of time passes. I think a lot of McDaniel voters and consumers of right-wing media will be motivated to defeat Cochran and punish him for his perceived sins.
The Senate Conservatives Fund is emblematic of the insanity that’s gripped one of our two political parties. I could understand it if the SCF worked to unseat Democrats, that’s just politics. That it’s working to unseat Republicans whom it finds insufficiently conservative is just mind boggling – especially when you consider the dismal results when the sufficiently pure attempt a run for the Senate.
If there was a shred of sense left in the Republican party they would smother Ted Cruz in the Senate Cloakroom.
I can see a certain measure of logic to primarying incumbents in safe Senate seats who you feel are too centrist. I supported the primary challenge against Joe Lieberman in 2006, and thought the 2010 challenges against Arlen Specter made some sense[1]. The problem is that the litmus tests being used by the SCF and their ilk are bonkers, and really seem to revolve on whether the Senator in question is willing to act like a complete asshole to prove their commitment to the cause.
[1] Pat Toomey worked out well for more the wingnuts; I never really bought the need for Sestak’s challenge against Specter, but it wasn’t crazy or anything.
Travis Childers is a Democrat. The state is Mississippi.
Have you seen who votes for Democrats in Mississippi.
Not. Going. To. Happen. No more than a Wendy Davis win in Texas.
Working in Childers’ favor is the fact that McDaniel can’t mount a challenge as a third party or write-in vote.
The only choices for Cochran protesters are to stay home or vote for the Dem.
While $70,000 would be a lot of money to me, it’s pissing in the wind when it comes to mounting. an effective legal challenge to an election whose results have already been certified. Daniels couldn’t even get Orly Taitz for that kind of money.
Sorry; McDaniel. Left Coast needs more coffee!
I hope to hell Childers can take advantage of this. Thad Cochran is as much a cockroach as McDaniel… he just has better manners.