Tea Party Group Flips To Attacking ‘Liberal’ MS Dem Before Runoff

Former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers discusses his winning campaign strategy of the Democratic primary for the Senate seat in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Childers is running for a seat that Republican U.S. Sen... Former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers discusses his winning campaign strategy of the Democratic primary for the Senate seat in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Childers is running for a seat that Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has held for six terms. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MORE LESS
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The U.S. Senate runoff election between Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) is still weeks away but the pro-McDaniel tea party-aligned Club for Growth is already directing some fire at Democratic nominee Travis Childers.

The group released a new statement on Friday bashing former Rep. Childers (D-MS) (pictured), who is angling himself as a conservative Democrat in the race, as far too liberal.

“Cochran supporters from Washington to Jackson to Biloxi know that Travis Childers can’t win a general election in Mississippi because his record is far too liberal and he was last seen losing his seat in Congress by double-digits,” Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in the statement. “This runoff is not about who will keep the Senate seat in Republican hands. With a record like Travis Childers’, that question is not in doubt. This runoff is about what kind of Republican is in the Senate: one who will vote for bailouts, tax hikes and trillions in debt, or one who stands up for taxpayers.”

The group goes on to say that Childers “opposes repeal of Obamacare” and voted to make current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaker of the House.

“Travis Childers gave $2,000 to Massachusetts liberal John Kerry when he was running for president,” Club for Growth also warned.

Childers, as Politico noted, voted against the Affordable Care Act, defines marriage as between one man and one woman, and is against new restrictions on buying guns.

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  1. C’mon, dammit! Where’s the attack on the ‘liberal media’?

    I get a check every time a Teabagger bitches about the liberal media and the mortgage is due.

  2. CFG all-of-a-sudden startin’ to worry 'bout MS, which is a good thing.

  3. At the risk of violating Godwin’s Law, whose side would these guys have been on in the 1930’s and 1940’s? They’re like the German American Bund. Childers is hardly a liberal.

  4. Avatar for meri meri says:

    That’s because it’s obvious Cochran is toast. Has been for some time.

  5. Mississippi is a state which gets back $3.00 for every $1.00 in taxes it pays; “federal spending accounts for 46 percent of all the state’s revenue: defense contracts, Social Security, farm aid, highway building. . . .” The state got Federal relief after Katrina and Federally subsidized flood insurance, and the cotton farmers? They got $4.6 billion from the Feds. So know-nothing teabag talkers really ought to STFU before they issue talking points about standing up for taxpayers because he’s talking about taxpayers in blue states who pay for his state’s largesse

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