Tag: Chris McDaniel
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‘Resentful white reactionary’ likely headed to U.S. Senate
It should come as no surprise he hails from Mississippi (and was endorsed by Sarah Palin). From The New Republic: Republicans and movement conservatives take great umbrage at any suggestion that the party’s electoral coalition includes a troublingly influential faction of resentful white reactionaries. They may often lie dormant, but McDaniel’s likely victory is their…
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‘Some of my best friends are racists’
The Tea Party gets apoplectic at the mere suggestion that they’re cozy with racists, so how do they explain a candidate — backed by the Club for Growth and Jim DeMint’s PAC — who openly courts secessionists? Chris McDaniel is taking the “GOP Civil War” to a new level. Two months ago, the tea party-backed…