Tag: State Elections

Mississippi’s Invisible Senator

What a deal….I get to do two post on my state of Mississippi…..which is great for not much happens in this state other than the usual budget cutting and services curtailment……

We have had a senator for as long as most of us can remember named Thad Cochran…….. (pause here for reflection)……..everybody has heard of Trent Lott but who the Hell has ever heard of Cochran?  My point exactly….not many.

From talkingpointsmemo.com……..

Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) jumped into the Senate race for Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) seat on Thursday and was immediately endorsed by two prominent conservative organizations.

McDaniel had been floating a primary challenge to either Cochran or Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) prior to his announcement.

Tea Party groups in the state support McDaniel and within minutes the Senate Conservatives Fund, Club for Growth, and Madison Project offered their endorsements.

“Chris McDaniel is a constitutional conservative who will fight to stop Obamacare, balance the budget, and get America working again,” Senate Conservatives Fund Executive Director Matt Hoskins said in a statement . “Chris McDaniel is not part of the Washington establishment and he has the courage to stand up to the big spenders in both parties. He’s a principled leader who will make Mississippi proud.”

I find it incredible that he was planning to go after Palazzo who was the Tea Party fav in his race against Gene Taylor….Taylor, a Democrat, a blue dog had a 99% rating for voting in favor of the middle class…he was pro-gun, pro-life, pro seniors, everything the retirees in the area could want….but because he was a Dem he was booted out of office in favor of a Tea Party candidate……and now that candidate has not preformed to their liking and he could get a challenger…….

As far as Cochran goes…he will most likely bow out because he has lost the extreme right confidence and Mississippi could have the next Ted Cruz in the making….joy, joy……..

Some Voters Never Learn

From the “Can’t Fix Stupid” File!

Votes are counted in the Penis Primary and Mitt takes it with Newt a distant 2nd……..now please move on the world is turning the screws to millions of people and you rather listen to a person with NO ideas but knows the words to “America The Beautiful”…..was that his attempt to show that he is presidential?

I seldom post on the goings on in my state of Mississippi….mainly because I do not think that many readers give a Hell about the state and second, it is really hard for me to write about the state and its voters without using words like stupid….moronic….uninformed…..on and on.  Then there comes a time when I feel obligated to post on the politics in the state to help illustrate what happens when voters NEVER learn from the vote…..

Recently we voters in Mississippi elected a Repub, Phil Bryant the LT Governor to Halley Barbour and as usual he ran on a hyper conserv platform of anti-abortion, pro religion, tax cuts and education and slimming down government and of course….JOBS…..after the election I realized that this type of platform is the same platform that just about every Repub candidate has run on since the mid 80’s…….

I checked back in my scrapbook from my days of letters to the editor and such and found that in 1987 we elected Ray Mabus as governor and his platform was tax cuts, education and jobs……and in the years that followed nothing has changed……there are few jobs in Mississippi, the educational system has gotten worse and the tax cuts have created NOTHING but a wider divide between the rich and the poor…..

As I keep asking my readers, check out the stats…..Mississippi continues and is always at the very bottom of very “Best” list and the top of every “Worst” list….the people can thank themselves for being the most uninformed voters in the land…..and unfortunately, I see NO change in the foreseeable future.

Mississippians seem to always fall for the crap spread by their Repub leaders….the old political axiom of “tell them what they want to hear, not what they need to hear” is a winning combination, at least in the state that desperately needs new and better leadership……but unfortunately the state is so uninformed that it will never claw its way into the 21st century…..

My favorite quote….”Can’t fix stupid”…..and it is more accurate in some than in others…….

NOTE:  Watch for my breakdown of the issues that the Mississippi Legislature will be addressing….I call it the Good, the Bad and the Ugly….hopefully I will be doing them monthly……should be fun, if not irritating!

Are The Stereotypes Right?

Yesterday the voters in my state have proven their total lack of rational thought…..but it is getting better?

In the past I have been a staunch critic of the politics and the politicians of the state of Mississippi….I always say look at what the elected officials have given the voters of the state….if there is a “worst” list…we are on top and if there is a “best” list we are on or near the bottom….does that sound like the voter has been diligent in the research into their candidates?

For instance, the voter falls for the promise of tax cuts every time and the promise of jobs and then they struggle like Hell to find a job that pays a little better than minimum wage….they fall for the promise of education and then allow the elected ones cut the system to the bone and then wonder why the state’s education sucks……they vote for emotional issues that do NOTHING to bring Mississippi out of the 19th century……God, Guns and Abortion……

Either the voters are the laziness in the country or they are the most ignorant……But wait!

Mississippi voters Tuesday rejected a controversial amendment that would have defined life as beginning at conception.

The Mississippi amendment would have made it impossible to get an abortion in the state and hampered the ability to get the morning-after pill or birth control pills that destroy fertilized eggs. Disposing of unused fertilized eggs could also have become illegal, making in vitro fertilization treatments more difficult.

That vote was amazing…the voter showed some actual knowledge of the issue this time…..But wait!

While the abortion ballot initiative in Mississippi got the most attention, another constitutional amendment that CNN projects to pass will require voters to submit a government-issued photo ID.  Mississippi will be the 15th state to require photo IDs to vote.  Such laws have become popular with Republicans, who say they are trying to reduce voter fraud.  Democrats argue that Republicans are trying to suppress voter turnout, especially among people who tend to vote for Democrats.

Now this one did NOT surprise me at all….Repubs will do whatever they must to try and keep Dem leaning voters from the polls……and in Mississippi that means African-American voters……and now that the state’s legislature will gain more Repubs….I look for other issues similar to this to start appearing……

The workers in the state do NOT have to worry about any Repub attacks on their rights….for you see….workers have very few rights to begin with…..

So are the stereotypes right?  Regrettably they are are……the voter did show that they can do some independent thinking…..but NOT too much at any one time……