@MSGOP chair Nosef: You can’t continue to move the bar every time a different election comes up

Tea party Senate challenge in Mississippi shows rift in the GOP

JEFFREY HESS: Repairing the rift between active Tea Party supporters and more mainstream Republicans is the challenge facing Mississippi’s GOP chair, Joe Nosef, who says it is time to move into general election mode.

JOE NOSEF, Chair, Mississippi Republican Party: You can’t continue to move the bar every time a different election comes up and create a litmus test for what you call a real Republican. I asked somebody the other day, I just said, my only — as we were parting, I just said to him, my only hope is that you wouldn’t vote against your own best interest in an effort to try to get somebody back that ran an ad you didn’t like.

PBS
9/30/14