MAGNOLIA STATE’S “REPUBLICAN” SCHISM WIDENS …
In case you hadn’t noticed, the “Republican” party is imploding …
We broke down the specific ideological fault lines in this piece, but the practical effect is likely going to be a contested convention in which GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is denied the party’s nomination.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas – who has been mathematically-eliminated from clinching the nomination on the first ballot – may also get the shaft.
How does that work exactly? So far this election cycle, Trump and Cruz have combined to get 65.8 percent of the GOP popular vote and 77.4 percent of delegates. Do “Republicans” really think they are entitled to pick somebody else?
Oh right, we forgot … according to the GOP establishment, “the will of the people is crap.”
Anyway, all of this has prompted some serious handwringing (and corrupt dealmaking) across the country … and some borderline insanity outside of the country.
In Mississippi – which has the distinction of being the only state in America more backward than South Carolina – it’s allegedly prompted some threatening text messages from the state’s party chairman, Joe Nosef.
According to a story posted to radio host Laura Ingraham‘s LifeZette, Nosef is threatening Trump and Cruz supporters in advance of the state’s April 23 “Republican” convention.
Specifically, he hinted that Trump and Cruz backers who “so much as raise their voice” in objection to the selection of pro-establishment delegates to the national convention would be escorted from the convention hall by law enforcement.
“I won’t be removing them – somebody with a gun and a badge will be,” Nosef wrote in one of the text messages.
Yikes … although let’s face it, this is a logical extension of S.C. governor Nikki Haley‘s January 2016 call for “Republican” voters to simmer down.
Rebuking this threat? State Senator Chris McDaniel – who offered up one of the best quotes we’ve heard this entire election cycle.
“Whatever the consequences of such actions, one thing is certain: This process belongs to the good people of Mississippi – not to one man or a small group of party elites in a smoke-filled, mahogany-walled room in a Jackson mansion,” McDaniel told The (Mississippi) Sun-Herald.
Ah, mahogany …
This sounds like a story Ron Burgandy needs to be covering!
For those of you unhip to how Mississippi “Republicans” operate, look no further than the 2014 reelection of liberal U.S. Senator Thad Cochran. Apparently the Magnolia State is dealing with the same sort of liberal GOP infestation as the Palmetto State.
Oh well … the more these lawless leftists show their true stripes, the sooner they hasten their own demise.
It’s just taken some people longer to realize it than others.