It doesn’t get much worse than Chris McDaniel
State Senator Chris McDaniel’s primary challenge against incumbent U.S. Senator Thad Cochran is amusing, to be polite.
The Mississippi Republican Party is engaged in a civil war between the (sort of) sane, (somewhat) mainstream faction represented by Cochran and the Tea Party faction represented by McDaniel. Cochran, once a moderate, has shifted his rhetoric and voting record even further to the right in hopes of coming across as conservative enough to Mississippi’s extreme Republican Party base. As a consequence, primary challenges like McDaniel’s cause more gridlock in Washington, D.C., and, therefore, less progress on the policymaking front.
If I’m not mistaken, McDaniel will be visiting Ole Miss for an event on Feb. 13, hosted by Young Americans for Chris McDaniel. So let’s learn a bit about McDaniel, his views and his record.
McDaniel’s biography on his campaign website is actually an incredibly comical read, bless his heart.
“(McDaniel) believes that any compromise of our constitutionally guaranteed rights is a destruction of the promise of the American Dream and the foundations of our country.”
I wholeheartedly agree. That’s why most Americans believe the Constitution protects LGBT Americans from workplace discrimination and ensures same-sex couples the freedom to marry. Doesn’t the Constitution require that the law treat every citizen equally?
Sean Higgins
Daily Mississippian
2/7/14
