the clarion ledger is a paper in Mississippi and they came they broke up
really a remarkable story that a very competitive Senate races
a late April April 26 a
the worst posted a on on this guy's
I guess was on his web page or wherever people posting but
tumbler I don't like that way at that tender was posted on tender
but that was not on Twitter so he's a political blogger as guy is
his name is Clayton Thomas Kelly's now been arrested here's what he posted he
apparently
got himself into the nursing home where Thad Cochran's
wife that cochran is the said a senior senator from mississippi
and he got into the nursing home where that cochran's white
has been living since 2000 she's suffers from
dimension and she's been there fourteen years now
um and she took he took up
photo offer any posted at online
the photo has since been removed and obviously the intent to the photo was to
show
I guess I don't know to suggest that that cochran was
doing so bad guy bad guys some sort of course there's zero evidence to that
news I don't know what color Singhal what is an editor
terrible tragedy that did the for missus got credit for that cochran to have to
deal with it in a
loss that is difficult for people to move on from because it too lost that
sort of lives with you
every day soap obviously that is a
out about and cochran is engaged in a very tight race which I presume dry came
in the morning not however up a lot a senate races but i i'd
missed that one because that that the year this election season as we come up
tomorrow twosomes
primaries insignificant States but the move this season has been that the Tea
Party is pretty much getting crushed by the Republican establishment
well at the same time moving the Republican establishment even further to
the right of where it has been which is
turns out that's possible didn't know there was anything to the right words
but it's like a
in football to keep committing a penalty in your like inside the 1-yard line ur
you had way you have this is the dollar and they're always like she could do
that
it in in you do that into infinity
right but I don't eventually together like I hear but eventually I got it
good returns that right but it turns out that
there is somewhere to the right where the republicans have been and they found
that grounded the Tea Party
has pushed in there but Chris McDaniel has now spent
a the better part of a couple a days a
dealing with this clarion ledger story that this guy who is a supporter of
Chris McDaniel
Clayton Thomas girl you have photos Garda the Clayton Thomas Kelly is a good
looking guy
I am actually backed up which is not bad not actually that is best measured his
mug shot
yeah by the way how can the 69 is higher than the
seventy what the fuck ever bigger I can you recount mississippi
I bought one is high in one as I 61 62 63 64 68
seventy 74 67 68 71
eighty this is why democrats can't complain I was not to say that I stole
the 62
kno wat used by tonight like I don't know you one of them and got
I can't imagine they have metric on their way but a minute let let's not
quickly look like gloss over at the point that you made which was a good one
that
and did the dominant narrative if you read the headlines in many political
blogs right now is look how poorly the Tea Party is faring
but are they really faring poorly of course optimally they would like to have
their members
you take over for some movies more establishment old-school republican
senators and representatives
and yet their coupling their goal but their goal is so
soul so distant from what they said it was supposed to be a few years ago
they said we're not just more conservative more religious republicans
or something different we don't care about the social issues we care about
fiscal responsibility and things like that in at the end goal is just
republicans who are more conservative more
radical more extreme on whatever issue you wanna input just think that an issue
there a more extreme version what they were five or ten to fifteen years ago
and of course their fiscal there there they're sort of their
old-school fiscal conservatism is not old school at all it isn't
fiscal irresponsibility yes it's things like don't raise the debt ceiling
have to pay bills that we've already things we already bought yes really not
paying your credit cards it's a
radical approach to the economy without any knowledge about what drives their
suspect own economy for and then
and headed to read more so than other public so it's right at the beginning in
attempting to save us financially they are willing to destroy the economy to do
it
and then making crazy decisions about things that they don't want to spend
money on
like the United Nations you know and then and then we'll understand its
meaning
and it's got all this article 21 UN stuff tied up in it too
there's just boundless craziness inside the Tea Party and it knows no limits
and for those a pretty crazy movie this was a great listener we spent a lot of
time 2012 talk about the racism %uh that was exist in the bar there was plenty
racism in the Tea Party but to me more than racism
is just batshit craziness inside the Tea Party
so this story obviously so the instantly McDaniels campaign
has come out and said that this guy add Thomas Clayton Thomas Kelly
we have nothing to do with this guy he acted on his own we barely know I'm
we have a minute and a half voicemail left by the McDaniel campaign
to the press spokesman for cochran's campaign basically pleading
with call him to allow mcdaniel talk to cochran
so we can apologize here's what the statement released by the McDaniel
people
I reached out to senator cochran directly to express my a porn
for the rapper had a guy you get up to get horns and reprehensible into the
same set but
by awards for the reprehensible actions of this individual to this criminal act
is deeply offensive
my team and I categorically reject such appalling behavior
and they continued my thoughts and prayers are with senator cochran and his
family
politics is about the exchange ideas in this type of action is no place in
politics whatsoever
and will not be tolerated I can guarantee you
from los angeles that there has been no meaningful exchange ideas
I mississippi up
so that message was basically a bitch to plead we don't know this guy please let
us talk
up but it turns out I a rash started a reference to bed to John found ablaze
bolt holes
Jagan the 14th and 15th the match for the up-to-date pool
taken basically that the end of last week now
which has that make Daniel up
forty 2.72 30 9.72 is a three-point lead over
15 percent undecided and and that leaves
that is that in a general election a
unencumbered running at thirty 9.7 would be
done yeah done and I imagine that those same rules apply
in a primary with his voters that he the incumbent everybody knows he's been
there a long time I think he's seeking his fourth term maybe I'm wrong it's a
starter
but that cockers been there a long time and for him to be at 39 under 40 percent
republican supporting him he's going to lose so this is a great story
in a sense for cochran to be able to endure
what I'm sure they're interested in doing is desperately hoping
to tie plate dollars Kelly in to Chris McDaniel
yep yeah and and so at I certainly wouldn't have predicted before isn't it
with all the pictures too small personal shopper there is a
there's a photo of them together that's always the day others there yet
at the photo clearly their flatbread madame yet
I'm longer he sang with his eyes get it
to the nursing home a so the blogger
I had already written multiple articles about mcdaniel pro mcdaniel
article saying he'd be the next Rampal which in this context the pearly
positive
on and yeah and so bit we
the that hit nothing that sorta complicates and we went out and played a
full voicemail is
admitting a campaign in their campaign spokeswoman can't seem to get right
exactly when they found out about it later because I miss information about
that
implying that they're just trying to damage control maybe they did actually
know about it
but yet I can I can't imagine it does nope
it you have to be wild
a wild political novice to think that this will work
that just releasing the photos that releasing the photos will not backfire
on you that it will be
that people are gonna react so we speak in a nursing home and take pictures ever
I mean look makin les gens but no one is suggesting any stories that the
conditions were
were horrific yeah any here's a crazy thought perhaps if your wife has
dementia for 14 years and your politician
was constantly on the other side of the country may be the best place for
is in a home where she has medical care that seems like it could very well be
the humane thing to do I don't know about this particular
nursing home but I think not not so crazy and here's the thing that the
I know Republic urgent birds their own if you don't have the money to afford
good nursing care for a relatively well as to mention needs 24-hour care
obviously the state facility should be kept up to the standards are the best
private facilities
and for that of course we would be tax dollars yes Ryan bear in mind too that
this is I guess
the the fruit of the tree Karl Rove planted over the past two decades
you can't go around doing absolutely aboard and reprehensible things to your
democratic opponents like
implying that a man who is like crowning achievement had been the working done
with at risk kids saying that he was a pedofile
taking women and one female politicians and implying behind closed doors that
they're lesbians and things like that
saying that John McCain had an illegitimate black baby
saying that hillary Clinton has had dramatic brain injuries and so you can't
trust her she might be crazy
all those things that Karl Rove in that breed
Republican political operative have been using against Democrats in the past
a couple decades eventually you're going to see thing that used in the republican
primaries and you're seeing something like that
on a micro level with this blog