The Response to This RNC Fundraising Letter is Classic
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is beginning to receive blowback for their support of GOP establishment-backed Senator Thad Cochran’s dirty campaign tactics against Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi GOP runoff on June 24.
The 76-year-old Cochran, infamously nicknamed the “King of Pork,” flooded black, traditionally Democrat neighborhoods with both flyers and robocalls labeling both McDaniel and the pro-freedom, pro-Constitution Tea Party movement as “racist” in the days leading up to the runoff.
More egregiously, the Cochran campaign is accused of an illegal vote-buying scheme, in which a black pastor, Reverend Stevie Fielder from the First Union Missionary Baptist Church, contends that the Cochran campaign gave him cash to buy “hundreds or even thousands” of “black votes.”
Three weeks earlier, McDaniel had narrowly defeated Cochran in the GOP primary, however neither received the 50% required to runoff an election.
The net result were as many as 40,000 Democrats voting in the Republican primary, easily enough to give Cochran a 7,600 vote edge. The McDaniel campaign contends that 71% of those Democrats would not consider voting for a Republican in the primary, a clear indication that they were motivated only to “stop a racist” rather than voting for Cochran based on anything substantive.
The RNC is receiving at least some blowback, if this tweet from a person with a significant Twitter following, is any indication. The RNC fundraising letter was returned with the words, “Stop the race-baiting,” using the hashtag #RememberMississippi, and was tweeted in response to the news that the Mississippi GOP is refusing to hear McDaniel’s official challenge to the results.
Some have indicated on Twitter, using the hashtag #RememberMississippi, that they will vote for Cochran’s challenger, Travis Childers, hoping to punish the GOP for their support of Cochran’s race-baiting tactics.
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