There's crazy, and there's Teabagger crazy ........

[marmar]

(Salon) Defeated Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel, aka America’s No. 1 source of lingering political entertainment, has submitted his challenge of the June 24 GOP runoff results to the courts. This was his only remaining option, as the Mississippi GOP took one quick look at his complaint and said, uhh, not our problem, and scrammed.

The complaint filed yesterday requests an immediate injunction of Sen. Thad Cochran’s certification as the Republican Party Senate nominee and ballot placement “until such time as this Complaint can be heard and the relief requested herein granted and accomplished.”

And the “relief requested herein,” just as it was in the original complaint filed to the state party earlier this month, is totally hilarious and probably not likely to sway a judge. McDaniel’s team once again is requesting that some counties where McDaniel did badly be voided and McDaniel named the nominee.

McDaniel is probably (hopefully?) aware that this legal challenge is ridiculously weak, and so he’s using it as an opportunity to harden his following for a lucrative tour on the wingnut welfare circuit. And so he invokes the Constitution as grounds for why he actually, uh, won the Republican primary, even though he lost it, having secured fewer votes than his opponent. He essentially argues that open primaries — in Mississippi’s case, there’s no party registration so anyone can vote in any party’s primary — are unconstitutional. Therefore Thad Cochran’s strategy of reaching out to Democratic and African-American voters was a violation of Mississippi Republicans’ constitutional rights. Hoo boy:

The First Amendment protects the freedom to join together in furtherance of common political beliefs, which necessarily presupposes the freedom to identify the people who constitution the association, and to limit the association to those people. The right to association includes the right not to associate. In no area is the political association’s First Amendment right to not associate more important than in the process of selecting its nominee.

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The complete piece is at: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/15/mississippi_tea_party_nuts_last_hurrah_make_me_the_nominee_because_of_the_consitution/

[Turbineguy]

1. He obviously wants a promotion from

teabagger crazy to dangerous idiot.

[Hugin]

2. "... wingnut welfare circuit... "

Now, there's a quote I can use... Repeatedly.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I actually don't like "open" primary elections...

I think of them as strategies by losers who don't have the demographics to actually win a traditional one, but want to force everyone else to recognize them.

But when they sneak up and stab a Repub in the back, I can appreciate them.

[Monk06]

4. So freedom of association implies the right to deny others the right to freedom of association.

Yeah that'll work. A little grammar would help too.

[sakabatou]

5. He has a giant case of sore loser.