‘Like a Plot Twist in a Faulkner Novel’

Posted on | June 3, 2014 | 25 Comments

ITAWAMBA COUNTY, Mississippi
Working from an enormous cabin in the middle of a 37-acre forest, it feels like I’m in a remote wilderness, although I’m actually just 15 miles from Tupelo. Our accommodations Monday night were graciously provided by a local Tea Party lady who knows Ali Akbar, and the mailing address here is Mantachie (population 1,107), but we’re outside the city limits, so the evocative “Itawamba County” was obviously a more appropriate dateline for my latest column:

State Sen. Chris McDaniel finished up an early morning campaign stop Monday by urging his supporters to “push like you’ve never pushed before” to get voters to the polls in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Polls show the Tea Party-backed challenger is neck-and-neck with incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and turnout will be the decisive factor in a bitterly contested GOP fight that has drawn national attention.
“If we can unseat a 42-year incumbent, it will send shock waves through this country,” McDaniel told about 40 of his supporters who turned out for a breakfast meeting at Chick-fil-A in Tupelo.
The shock waves of a McDaniel victory would be a rebuke not only to the Republican establishment that has poured millions into Cochran’s re-election effort, but also to pundits who have been trying to write the obituary of the Tea Party movement. Regardless of the outcome Tuesday, the united effort of grassroots conservatives in the Mississippi primary have shown that the Tea Party is still very much alive, lifting up McDaniel — a young state senator previously unknown outside his district — to fight a down-to-the-wire campaign against a powerful incumbent with universal statewide name recognition. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

Today we’ve got a four-hour drive back to Hattiesburg for what we hope will be a victory celebration tonight. Your prayers are most certainly welcome and, of course: Hit the freaking tip jar!

PREVIOUSLY:

May 26: ROAD TRIP!
May 27: Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Will Speak at Republican Leadership Conference
May 28: #RLC2014 Ready to Rock
May 29: #RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!
May 30: #RLC2014 N’Awlins, Y’all
June 1: Craig McCulloch Is the Real Deal
June 1: Mississippi Update: Chris McDaniel Campaign Fights GOP Establishment
June 2: Can Chris McDaniel Close the Deal?

Category: Election, Mississippi, Shoe Leather Fund, Tea Party

Comments

25 Responses to “‘Like a Plot Twist in a Faulkner Novel’”

MrEvilMatt
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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commonpatriot
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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CHideout
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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Lockestep1776
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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WeRResistance
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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Citzcom
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:27 am

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Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:36 am

Let’s hope you get to celebrate like Faulkner did…okay, in moderation and don’t be driving afterwards!
vermontaigne
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:58 am

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thatMrGguy
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:58 am

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Mike G.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:00 am

Lets hope McDaniel wins and is a portent of great things to come in the upcoming SC prim ary June 10th.
rsmccain
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:33 am

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Thomas_Wars
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:33 am

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Lilleth71
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:42 am

via @rsmccain: #TeaParty challenger @CMForUSSenate is neck&neck w incumbent Cochran. Turnout will b decisive factor http://t.co/tkr85BX80i
ophidianpilot
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:59 am

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rsmccain
June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:11 am

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STERLINGMHOLMES
June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:16 am

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KarrattiPaul
June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:18 am

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richard mcenroe
June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:43 am

Beware of drunken deer stumbling in front of your car after the victory party, Stacy!
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:51 am

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Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:22 am

Police officers generally don’t accept the defense that the deer was drunk…
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Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:22 pm

Will there be pudding?
K-Bob
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:41 pm

Just reading the town names in Mississippi is like the Cliff Notes version of Faulkner, with strains of Bobbie Gentry in the background.

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Bob Belvedere
June 3rd, 2014 @ 7:30 pm

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