Well, we knew that (remember “Jaywalking” segments on the Tonight Show?)

Georgie Staphlococcus was Definitely primed and prepped to keep ramming that question into Romney’s mouth. Romney should have called him on it, and pointed out the tactic to the tv viewers. [sigh]

BTW, I got an email from a friend that is claiming that information is emerging that the Miss. Repubs paid black voters, via preachers and others, $15 each to vote for Cochran. See here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/qxovdso

“According to Johnson and Gilbert, black pastor Stevie Fielder of the First Union Missionary Baptist Church was hired by the Cochran campaign to pay blacks $15 a pop to vote for Cochran in the run-off. Fielder admits he was deceived and manipulated and brainwashed by the Cochran camp into thinking that Chris McDaniel was a racist. It was as if he had been convinced that vote-buying was necessary to keep McDaniel from wearing his white hood on the floor of the United States Senate and burning crosses on the White House lawn.”

Hmmm. More will be revealed?

“[The RNC] need to immediately begin doing TV and social media pushback that states very clearly just what the Court’s ruling says with regard to contraceptives.”

I’m not opposed to that, exactly. The main problem is that it’s very awkward to try and insert that message into dead space…it’s just as likely to be taken as proof of the opposite.
Coupled with that is the problem of rationally explaining a legal issue to voters motivated by emotion (single women). What they want is security, not a bunch of legal jargon.

It could work, but it would have to be done in a very delicate way.

I would like to see the RNC issue in it’s platform something about “making sure contraception is safe, while respecting citizens’ religious views” maybe including references to Gosnell. Then, get the candidates onboard with a unified message.
Fight fire with fire.

I’m not sure going into a defensive crouch is going to do it.

Either McDaniel gets his recount without their support, and win-or-lose, the results are validated, or the establishment stonewalls and turns off so many R’s that the seat goes to the Democrats.

I don’t see what Obama can do to help the GOP shoot themselves in the foot, so this one is totally on the establishment.
The biggest problem may be that they know they’re guilty, and the national party may not be willing to cut the deadwood at the state level.
So far, it seems to be going that way.
Not surprising, really. If we thought they were unprincipled cowards to begin with, what were the chances that they would do the honest thing?

Secondly, I read a piece on HotAir (not my favorite site…a bit too “squishy”) stating that this was the Dem’s favored tactic to blunt the upcoming elections: small ball.
It seems quite the contrast from Obama’s sweeping rhetoric and party positions of the recent past, but it may work. Especially if you agree that “all politics is local,” as Tip O’Neill said.

So the strategy is to turn out the votes by whipping the proles into a frenzy about a host of issues that hit them on a personal level.
Of course, the Dems can’t be all things to all people, but they don’t need to be. Who are their constituents?

Single women, minorities, greens, youth.

Minorities are locked in, mostly. Their percentages cannot be increased much (though I would watch to see if the new illegals are bused into swing states). Black turnout is already as high as it will be, so Dems will likely try to turn out the Hispanic vote.

The number of greens can’t be increased rapidly before the election, but they are locked in with the scuttling of the Keystone XL (Canada announced they are pulling out of the project, I heard a couple of days ago).

Single women. The War on Women meme, contraception, as stated above. This may offer the greatest chance to provide new votes.

Youth. Probably not, since they are being hit daily by the poor economy, and I doubt will turn out in great numbers for Dems.

Coupled with this will be a concerted effort to split the Republican vote. I’m not sure what Dems could do to peel off Independents directly. More likely, they will help stoke the dissention caused by the MS debacle.

BTW, I heard today that True the Vote has sued the MS Secretary of State and GOP to injunct them from certifying the ballots before they can be inspected.
If the Republicans were smart, they would support the validation efforts. Otherwise, many, many R voters will stay away on election day.

“Once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.’ Abraham Lincoln

If someone likes you they’ll forgive you almost anything but if they don’t like you, nothing you say or do will ever be quite good enough. So too with the GOP and the LIV.