Rarely in the history of Republican Party politics, in Mississippi if not the nation as a whole, has a candidate faced off against the entire network of elected officials, everyone from the governor and the state congressional delegation to many local officials, most of whom not only endorsed Cochran but appeared in ads for him and gave speeches around the state on his behalf. It has long been an unwritten rule that in contested primaries in the GOP, the leadership, both elected and unelected, remained neutral. Conservative officeholders with Tea Party backing, like Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, held true to this rule. But not in Mississippi, where McDaniel faced a blitzkrieg from the entire Mississippi machine – the politicians, their dirty operatives, their money, and their media cronies.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:21:28 +0000
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