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Thad Cochran Wins One for Sanity Over Tea Partier Chris McDaniel - The Daily Beast
As to whether Democrats would prefer to have Cochran or McDaniel in the Senate, this takes us back to the old Marxist dialectic The worse, the better. That is, the worse things get for our enemies, the more extreme and crazy they get, the better things are for us, because the worse things get for them, the more quickly the public will see that the other side has lost its freaking mind.
We dont need one more extremist GOP candidate who is going to make those cowardly Republicans in the Senate conclude that they have to live in fear of losing to some certifiable, fact-bending jelly-head of the extreme right.
This was the stratagem of leftists everywhere for a long, long time. Not that Im making any direct comparisons hereOK?but this is what the socialists and communists thought in Germany in 1933. The right, they were sure, is going to discredit itself. And they were correct. But it took 12 years and around 9 million or 10 million dead human beings. Thats enough collateral damage to prove the theorists wrong.
No, sorry. Boring as it may seem, be glad that Cochran eked out his win. Be happy that sane won. Heres a little political truism for you: Sane is better than insane. We dont need more Ted Cruzes in the Senate. We dont need more candidates endorsed by Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum. We just. Dont. Need. Them. We dont need one more extremist GOP candidate who is going to make those cowardly Republicans in the Senate conclude that they have to live in fear of losing to some certifiable, fact-bending jelly-head of the extreme right. We really dont.
Cochran will never vote for anything Obama wants. No minimum wage hike, no carbon tax, no nothing. I understand that. But hell be in there, assuming he wins and stays alive, until January 2021. That is, through what might be Hillary Clintons first term. If the GOP intra-bloodbath happens in 2017 after shes won, Cochran, who wont be running again and just wont give a shit, might actually vote for one or two things Clinton asks for. McDaniel, obviously, would not.
And consider this. The Tea Party people are furious about this outcome. A very prominent Tea Party activist tweetedTuesday night: If Cochran wins this #mssen race, the GOP is done. They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.
So there we are. Be for sanity. Be against insanity. The dialectic never worked, even back in the glory days. Chris McDaniel belongs where he belongschasing ambulances in Pascagoula, or wherever it is hes from. And his election would not hasten the Republican apocalypse. If anything, Cochrans would. More Tea Party losses in races like this are whats needed.
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