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Friday, April 25, 2014

Tea Partiers: Sen. Thad Cochran Told Us Fighting Obamacare a "Lost Cause"

By Rick Pearcey • April 25, 2014, 09:50 AM

Matthew Boyle reports at Breitbart.com:

In a video posted late Wednesday, two . . . prominent Mississippi Tea Party activists said [Sen. Thad] Cochran told them in a 2012 meeting at his office in Washington, D.C. that repealing Obamacare was a lost battle.

In the video, Mississippi Tea Party president Laura Van Overshelde said she and a group of activists visited Cochran's office on the day of the oral argument before the Supreme Court on whether Obamacare is constitutional.

"He asked us in that situation: 'What argument’s before the Supreme Court today?'" Van Overshelde said. "We were astounded that the Senator did not realize that the most important arguments before the Supreme Court for people since the Obama administration took office was the Obamacare arguments and he didn’t know that that was actually happening on that day and a couple other days. We were pretty disappointed that he didn’t realize that this very important issue was being seen by the Supreme Court."

Cindy Wilkerson, another Tea Party activist who also met with Cochran that day, also appears in this video describing Cochran’s alleged defense of Obamacare. "Thad Cochran told me that 'fighting Obamacare would be a lost cause,'" Wilkerson says in the video.

"After Cochran made such statements in his D.C. office meeting with the Mississippi Tea Partiers, Wilkerson said 'silence' swept the room," according to Breitbart.com.

As noted here previously, Breitbart also reports that Sen. Cochran "is facing a primary challenger from . . .  two-term State Sen. Chris McDaniel. McDaniel has the support of Tea Party leaders like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, radio host Mark Levin, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express, Club for Growth, and various others."

McDaniel "dubs himself as a 'constitutional conservative,'" the Washington Times reports.

A poll taken April 3-5 shows "Cochran Up" at 52%, but "McDaniel Gaining" at 35%, according to the Clarion-Ledger, based in Jackson, Mississippi.

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