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McDaniel aide blames GOP for grown man's decision to end own life...
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:08 pm
You can't make this up. This gentleman (God rest him) put himself in a touchy situation, got caught, and punched out.
GOP's fault?
I guess the TP will always need boogeymen.
Sigh...
GOP's fault?
I guess the TP will always need boogeymen.
Sigh...
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Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:10 pm to Navytiger74
Pathetic, and BTW, goes against everything the Tea Party is supposed to stand for. You know, personal responsibility and all.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:10 pm to Navytiger74
Mark Mayfield made a poor decision then followed that with a really poor decision.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:11 pm to Holden Caulfield
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Mark Mayfield made a poor decision then followed that with a really poor decision.
Sounds about right.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:12 pm to Navytiger74
I think most people are assuming based upon their perspective.
Yourself and McDaniel's aide included.
Yourself and McDaniel's aide included.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:13 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Pathetic, and BTW, goes against everything the Tea Party is supposed to stand for. You know, personal responsibility and all.
The mistakes that the TPers apparently made was thinking that character was important to voters and that it was unimportant in their own personal behavior.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:13 pm to the808bass
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I think most people are assuming based upon their perspective. Yourself and McDaniel's aide included.
WTF am I assuming? That the GOP is not responsible for this man killing himself? That's not an assumption.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:14 pm to Navytiger74
You're assuming he's guilty of something.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:16 pm to the808bass
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You're assuming he's guilty of something.
I believe I wrote that he put himself in a touchy situation. Guilty or innocent, no one made him kill himself. Lots of people live through personal, professional, or political disgrace and find ways to carry on. Guilty or not, he could have taken the opportunity to grow from this and teach others.
He didn't. I'm not judging. I've felt pretty low and wouldn't wish it on anyone. I can't imagine what it feels like to be so low that you decide to end it all. I'm directing my criticism at the tool who's trying to capitalize on his death.
This post was edited on 6/27/14 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:18 pm to the808bass
quote:Well, if many of his clients left him because of the arrest then they too assumed he was guilty.
You're assuming he's guilty of something.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:19 pm to Navytiger74
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This gentleman (God rest him) put himself in a touchy situation, got caught, and punched out.
Almost danced around it. If you'd left out "put himself" and "got caught," you'd have been homefree in the contextual defense.
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I can't imagine what it feels like to be so low that you decide to end it all. I'm directing my criticism at the tool who's trying to capitalize on his death.
Or he may have been a friend who is angry at what happened and is lashing out. It may not be political at all. But you assume because it fits your narrative.
Carry on.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:21 pm to Diamondawg
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Well, if many of his clients left him because of the arrest then they too assumed he was guilty.
Yup, they did. And their assumption may have been correct (though clients usually don't care if assumptions are correct or not, just liability). It still doesn't change the fact that they're assumptions.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:24 pm to the808bass
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Almost danced around it. If you'd left out "put himself" and "got caught," you'd have been homefree in the contextual defense.
Fair enough. The thrust of my "narrative", however, has nothing to do with Mayfield's guilt or innocence. I just think it's chickenshit to blame a political party for one man's very personal and very permanent choice.
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Or he may have been a friend who is angry at what happened and is lashing out. It may not be political at all. But you assume because it fits your narrative.
Well that's indeed true.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:28 pm to Navytiger74
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I just think it's chicken shite to blame a political party for one man's very personal and very permanent choice.
And I think that the Mississippi GOP looks like a rudderless ship that cares more about power than ethics. And they didn't care who got hurt in the melee of an election race. They didn't pull the trigger and I wouldn't accuse them of doing so. But I don't have a whit of respect for anyone seriously involved in that graft machine.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:35 pm to Navytiger74
I supported McDaniel mainly because of my distaste for Thad Cochran and the establishment GOP. However, you simply cannot point a finger at any of these people and claim they're the cause of Mayfield's suicide.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:37 pm to Navytiger74
Now NT...I'm going to trust you, though I know your chosen bias, since this is your thread. Please forbear.
As I was never interested in the nursing home pics and Threads in the first place - because I could NEVER imagine any circumstance wherein posting imagery of an opponent's old and suffering MOTHER...could ever be of any positive use in a campaign. Am I missing something? Did Thad drive her to senility, or have her committed against her will? I don't get it. How could Thad's mother, taint him/his campaign? I find it hard to believe that any upstanding citizen or family man could even be led to think such. A lawyer. Geez. Hell...my wife would shoot me.
And...just how egregious - in regard to the import/seriousness of the potential *crime* - was the (highly publicized?) arrest scenario?
I suspect you already know how I feel re where the blame lies for the man's action. Just in case...BOTH "acted stupidly". They'd all probably like a do-over. I'm probably stupid for typing on this computer.
As I was never interested in the nursing home pics and Threads in the first place - because I could NEVER imagine any circumstance wherein posting imagery of an opponent's old and suffering MOTHER...could ever be of any positive use in a campaign. Am I missing something? Did Thad drive her to senility, or have her committed against her will? I don't get it. How could Thad's mother, taint him/his campaign? I find it hard to believe that any upstanding citizen or family man could even be led to think such. A lawyer. Geez. Hell...my wife would shoot me.
And...just how egregious - in regard to the import/seriousness of the potential *crime* - was the (highly publicized?) arrest scenario?
I suspect you already know how I feel re where the blame lies for the man's action. Just in case...BOTH "acted stupidly". They'd all probably like a do-over. I'm probably stupid for typing on this computer.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:38 pm to the808bass
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They didn't pull the trigger and I wouldn't accuse them of doing so.
That's fair, but yet in the other thread you said others were "complicit". I don't get that. It's all a great tragedy and I feel sorry for his family and for him.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:57 pm to RCDfan1950
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Did Thad drive her to senility, or have her committed against her will? I don't get it. How could Thad's mother, taint him/his campaign?
Wife.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 3:58 pm to wfeliciana
If someone tried to overplay their hand with respect to his arrest, I would say that they are complicit. That's obviously not the Republican Party.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 4:00 pm to RCDfan1950
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Am I missing something?
Yes. Thad lives with his Executive Assistant. He travels with her quite a bit, too. There are rumors (though not much more) of an affair with her while his wife is in a nursing home with dementia. That's the mud-slinging that was being attempted.
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