State Senator Chris McDaniel (challenging Thad Cochran) is awesome

[TaftFan]

Look at what he posts on Facebook. He obviously has the thought process of a liberty minded person. I wouldn't be surprised if he is a closet Ron Paul supporter.

https://www.facebook.com/senatormcdaniel

https://www.facebook.com/ChrisMcDanielForUSSenate

And read this new interview with National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368862/chris-mcdaniels-quest-jonathan-strong

Snips:

McDaniel’s proudest moment back home came when he tried to override a veto from Republican governor Haley Barbour — one of the GOP establishment’s eminent figures — to rein in the state’s aggressive use of eminent domain for redevelopment purposes.
“Private property is one of the cornerstones of our Constitution. And if the government can take it arbitrarily for almost any purpose, then we are not truly a free people,” McDaniel tells me over breakfast in Washington, D.C.

“We’ve seen this before. Whether it’s Eisenhower–Taft or Goldwater–Rockefeller or Reagan–Ford — this is a continuation of that fight. I’m a Reaganite. I’m a conservative. I believe in liberty. And like a lot of Mississippians, I’m frustrated. We’re not heading in the right direction,” he says.

“In my soul I believe I’m first and foremost a Jeffersonian. I admire Taft, of course. I admire Goldwater. Reagan, obviously. I’m very interested in Austrian economics, whether it be Hayek or even earlier philosophers like Bastiat — philosophers that value freedom as opposed to statism,” he says .

 

[vechorik]

McDaniel IS awesome alright and this election is more important than most. McDaniel did NOT get the blessings of the state/national GOP, ran anyway. This is a race like Reagan - the people's vote against the establishment (who are backing Cochran) Can the people win? You bet! Hope everyone here does what they can for McDaniel. You will NOT regret it.

Heck, even the Democrats in MS are trying to get Cochran re-elected (they love his pork and earmark spending).

 

[tsai3904]

Any candidate talking about Austrian economics is great but how can someone be a strong defender of private property rights and support e-verify at the same time?

Chris wrote and introduced the Employment Protection Act in 2008. Also known as the E-Verify law, it requires all Mississippi companies to use an Internet-based system to check the legal status of potential employees.

https://mcdaniel2014.com/about-chris/

 

[TaftFan]

Any candidate talking about Austrian economics is great but how can someone be a strong defender of private property rights and support e-verify at the same time?



https://mcdaniel2014.com/about-chris/

Fair criticism, but this has been defended as a state-level way of stopping illegal immigration where the federal government has failed.

 

[Smart3]

McDaniel has said some rather controversial things and could be labeled a racist pretty easily.

 

[TaftFan]

McDaniel has said some rather controversial things and could be labeled a racist pretty easily.

Who cares. Rand and Ted have already been labeled racist.

There is nothing we can do about being labeled racist at this point. All we can do is diminish its effect. (And it is diminishing)

 

[lib3rtarian]

McDaniel has said some rather controversial things and could be labeled a racist pretty easily.

He is running in MS, not CA. The left has already painted him as a secessionist and racist, but the GOP primary voters in MS probably don't care.