TEA Party's Last Stand: Mississippi?

McDaniel vs. Cochran
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Republican US Senate incumbent Thad Cochran vs. Republican state senator and challenger Chris McDaniel

This is the fight that will determine whether the TEA Party movement is a viable political force, or a monumental outrage which took down the Washington Establishment, both Republican and Democrat, in Washington D.C.

Cochran has served in the US Senate since 1976, served in the House of Representatives since 1972.

Forty-one year Establishment Republican.

That's a long time to be in Washington.

Since his election, the national debt has soured, under Republican as well as Democratic Presidents.

He has voted in line with the same subsidy system which cannot continue.

What steps has Cochran taken to end the entitlement pillage which is borrowing from our future as opposed to shoring up investments to ensure that future generations are not paying for past pleasures and comforts?

Bryan Fischer called Cochran an invisible Senator, who has done almost nothing, who has made no impact on the US Senate or the country.

Indeed, he is one Senator that even the most connected of avid politicos (and political scientists) would neglect to mention. A lot like the thirteenth President of the United States, for example, or who was the Secretary of State for, well, every Administration from John Adams to the Present.

McDaniel admits that he faces an uphill fight challenging Cochran.

Why is he running? On Fox News 13, McDaniel shared:

"First and foremost, we have to balance this budget. We're spending way too much money. We have to gain control over our spending habits if our republic is going to survive. Perhaps more importantly our Constitution has to be restored. We have to defend the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment. We have to make inroads in making sure that individual liberties are protected, and lastly Senator Cochran voted to fund Obamacare. I am not going to fund Obamacare. I'm going to do my best to get rid of Obamacare once and for all.

The TEA Party Patriots, Freedom Works have endorsed McDaniel, as well as Sarah Palin.

Buffering his Reagan credentials, McDaniel is calling for a restoration of bold colors in the Republican Party, not light pastels.

"I believe that Republicans have to learn to fight again. We have to fight with courage. We have to stand for what we believe."

The interview recognized that incumbent Cochran, like all politicians, is beatable.

"I think Senator Cochran is a nice guy. I truly do."

The truth is, however, we do not need nice guys in Washington right now, especially with a Democratic Party which has become radically progressive under a tax-and-spend socialized chief executive who rules by fiat more than full faith and credit in accordance with the United States Constitution.

"His time has past. . .When he went into office in 1973, the country was only roughly $400 billion in debt. This country is now $17.2 trillion in debt, and $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities."

Wow! To get a grasp on the size of these numbers, if a man spent $1 million a day from the moment that Jesus was born until the present day, a person still would not have spent $1 trillion.

"At some point, we have to learn to be responsible again, and that is something that Senator Cochran has been unwilling to do. We need new leadership, and Washington DC, well, they're not listening."

The part about learning to fight again -- that statement needs to be the rallying cry for the TEA Party movement once again. Voters have to understand, however, that just by sending the right people to Washington, that does not mean that our efforts as voters or activists is over.


Refusing to stand with Cruz, Cochran has raised concerns among TEA Party fiscal disciplinarians, who believe that Cochran is too much "get along to go along."

In comes Chris McDaniel.

State senator McDaniel is the TEA Party favorite, but Thad Cochran admitted that he knows nothing about the TEA Party movement. Mississippi voters know the movement very well, if they are not actively involved.

Bryan Fischer is calling the primary for McDaniel. The polling suggests that the gap has hardly narrowed.

The latest setback, seemingly, against McDaniel rests on his conservative radio show in the previous decade. These hacked and spliced recordings do not reveal a ranting radio host whose every statement will invite upsets and needless distractions, necessarily.

This clip, terribly mixed, tries to expose a "Racist Radio Rant", from the gun control laws in Canada, and his disparagements of Hip Hop. Yet in the midst of the recording, he emphasizes that his upset with Hip Hop has nothing to do with race.

He also called out the liberal-progressive lie that poverty causes crime. Criminals cause crime. In a failed attempt to inject some credibility to the anti-McDaniel smear, the video includes a quote from Aristotle, who wrote: "Poverty causes crime."

Aristotle also believed that heavier objects will fall faster than lighter ones (Galileo actually tested that theory, and disproved it." Aristotle also believed that men had more teeth than women (he was wrong), and that a city could never grow  beyond the shout of a city herald. Not just today, where metropolises define urban regions in the United States, but in Aristotle's day, Athens had grown so large, in spite of the weakness of a town herald to announce news.

Summa summarum: who cares what Aristotle things?

The silly clip also slams McDaniel's support for water-boarding (more humane than allowing terrorists to live and say nothing while other terrorist cells continue to plot and kill).

Another audio clip features McDaniel slamming "libertarians", when in fact he was slamming one libertarian candidate, then criticizing specific policies from a more libertarian-leaning society. The state senator provided an extended explanation on Facebook (not that he really needed to).

The fact that the upstart state senate challenger is attracting such animus bodes well for Mr. McDaniel.

Still, incumbent Cochran has not just national but even state establishment backing, including former Governor Haley Barbour (who pushed tort reform while also salvaging his native state through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina). Cochran and McDaniel have sparred over federal funding related to education (both want the feds out of dictating state education policy, but McDaniel wants fed money out of it, too). On Hurricane Katrina funds, McDaniel sounded unsure whether he would have voted for the package (more likely because the horrendous, wasteful riders attached to such "emergency legislation , i. e. Superstorm Sandy)

These attacks might sway an electorate to remain with the incumbent, as statistics often bear out anyway.

Nevertheless, with a little over a month remaining, McDaniel's momentum may move him up fast enough to take down Cochran in the primary, and chart a way for another TEA Party outsider to shake-up Washington DC status quo complacency anew.