Will The Ugliness Of The GOP Primary In Mississippi Swamp McConnell In Kentucky?

On top of the court case he filed last week to vacate the results of the Mississippi Senate election, Tea Party sore loser Chris McDaniel has been trying to pick a new fight-- this time with poor, embattled Miss McConnell, threatening to turn Kentucky's far right fringe-- which he so desperately needs in his neck-and-neck fight against Alison Lundergan Grimes-- into a pack of stay at home protestors in November. McDaniel is mad at the world-- especially after the state GOP told him to go pound sand last night.

“As Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell has the opportunity to show true leadership in this situation by publicly renouncing the [National Republican Senatorial Committee]'s, Henry Barbour's and his own financial support of race-baiting advertisements that disparaged conservatives in Mississippi and openly engaged in the sordid politics of racial division in order to scare Democrats into participating in a Republican primary,” Fritsch said. And then Fritsch insinuated that all Republican senators who donated to Cochran who don’t ask for a refund are race-baiters:

“Any Republican senator who donated money to the Cochran campaign should immediately demand that that Cochran refund their donation, and refusal to do so is tacit acceptance of the race-baiting tactics employed by the Cochran campaign and Henry Barbour,” Fritsch said.

You see that, senators? Even if you donated to Cochran because you’re his friend, you support his votes or you’re trying to protect an incumbent, you approve of race baiting.

Remember, McDaniel will have to prove that that at least 7,667 votes were illegally cast. McDaniel and his KKK supporters just can't wrap their collective head around the idea of African-Americans voting in the white people party. "We must be absolutely certain," said McDaniel, when he found out Africans Americans were voting, "that our Republican primary was won by Republican voters." The irony here is that the criminality that might wind up being proved was taking place inside the extraordinarily shady McDaniel campaign. According to yesterday's Clarion-Ledger McDaniel staffers were paying people to make false claims about vote rigging.

Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member of Chris McDaniel's campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to vote for the GOP incumbent.

Attorney General Jim Hood said Wednesday at the Neshoba County Fair that Fielder had told state investigators he was paid to lie about the vote-buying scheme. Fielder told Hood that he was never asked by a Cochran staffer to pay people for their vote. Hood said last week he did not know who actually paid Fielder for the interview.

However, Hood spokeswoman Jan Schaefer confirmed Monday evening that Fielder told investigators that it was Noel Fritsch who paid him for the interview.

Additionally, a Democratic activist said two weeks ago that Fritsch contacted him about helping to find legal representation for Fielder. At the time, it was believed the FBI was talking to Fielder, but that has not been substantiated. The FBI previously would neither confirm nor deny any investigation into Fielder.

In an email statement Tuesday night, Fritsch said, "Charles Johnson paid for the texts & emails Cochran/Wicker staffer Saleem Baird sent that prove Cochran bought Democrat votes." Fritsch did not respond to other questions about whether he helped raise the money used to pay Fielder or about his alleged involvement in securing legal representation for the Meridian man.

This is exactly why Republicans are always accusing normal people of perpetrating election fraud. It's what conservatives always do as a matter of course and they project their own anti-democracy, criminal intentions onto everyone else. The Mississippi election primary has turned into a ridiculous mess that has spiraled further and further out of control, making the whole process look illegitimate. And is it any wonder that demented Republican Congressman Mo Brooks next door in Alabama is claiming the Democratic Party is waging "a war against white people?" These are very sick people.

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