Um, the national Republican brand being diminished to where Mississippians (and largely the same ones) will actually vote for a conservative Democrat again. It's really less of a new change and more of a regression to the mean.
Haha, true, but this would really be a change at the national level that has an effect here at the state/local level.
Both of these statements are absolute truth, at least not anytime soon. I just wish the Republicans we have in our statewide offices weren't so tightly tied to the lobbying firm of Haley Barbour...
So what I do, forget the letter and listen to what they say and better yet research for what they got done in their current positions.
Disagree, the legislature only takes up bills that the Republican Governor and Attorney General have agreed to. Seriously, this is coming directly from multiple legislators I know. The Governor and AG sit in a room and decide 100% what moves forward, how it moves forward, and when it comes up to a vote, for the entire state on all major legislation.
The sooner Haley Barbour is too old (or senile) to meddle in Mississippi state politics, the better. That man is a scourge on this state. Gonna keep my mouth shut on specifics, to keep from getting sued. But, that guy and his political posse need to go. He and his posse still very much control pretty much everything that goes on in Mississippi. He put Tater where he is. He put Lynn Fitch where she is. Haley is very much the puppet-master
The republican brand isn't diminished compared to the democrat brand. Certainly I think people in Mississippi are frustrated with republicans, but for whatever nuts are out there on the right, republicans aren't actually pushing any of the nuts ideas the way the democrats are. No examples of republican DAs just deciding they have wholesale discretion over what laws should be enforced, no widespread riots, no open advocacy for racial discrimination, no rules or legislation to eliminate single sex bathrooms or single sex sports. IF you look compared to 20 years ago, Republicans have moved left on basically every social issue, moderated on the war on drugs, kept the same position on taxes, stopped believing deficits mattered, given up reforming entitlements, have firmed up their support of the 2nd amendment, have become the pro speech party (not really by getting better on speech, but just not getting worse), have mostly stayed the same on criminal justice, have stayed the same on environmental concerns, become at least split on foreign interventionism, stayed mostly the same on immigration (which is vocally against it, but mostly don't actually try to stop it), have moved in a more protectionist direction (although this is sort of like foreign entanglements; the more protectionist crowd just has more clout now whereas the free market crowd did have more or less complete control despite not really having a strong majority within the party). Which of those positions do you think have diminished the republican party in the eyes of Mississippi voters in a way that would keep pace with what Democrats have done?
Not really. That was true prior to Barbour. Barbour exercised power because of his fundraising clout. Tater isn't as strong as Barbour on that front, but he does have a good war chest to leverage, and more importantly, a lot of grant money flows through the governor's office. That gives a lot of power directly and also gives him leverage to persuade legislators also.
Reading comprehension fail. I said that that's what may happen over the next two years, not what has already happened. If you haven't noticed, Kevin McCarthy gave those nuts full power so that he could be Speaker. It will be 2 years of full on crazy. Buckle up.
A balanced budget amendment that abolished the income tax and the IRS. Full on nutball territory. And also to backdoor pardon all those involved with Jan 6 and any other Trump Era crimes, including Gaetz and his sex crimes, by gutting the ethics enforcement of the House. Again, nutball territory.
Well, nearly every conservative Republican I know CLAIMS they don't vote based on Party.....
As soon as he took office, he faced record flooding. Soon later face the biggest tornado outbreak in State history. The he faces Covid 19. No governor other than the Governor during the Civil War faced more adversity as him and he did a good job. Plus, he was the Governor who signed the law changing the State flag and trust me there were a lot of Tate supporter who was pissed about it but he did it any ways.
Please tell me this is a troll job post.
Refuse to support Medicaid expansion which has cost MS health care $8 billion plus now.
I can’t name a single bad thing that he’s done. I also can’t name a single good thing that he’s done. All I know is that when I hear him talk I feel like he’s trying to sell me a used Plymouth that granny only drove to church on Sunday. Let’s just say he doesn’t exude confidence for me.
