Sen. Cochran Has Trouble Recalling Reporter After Just 30 Minutes! (Old coot!)

Daily Caller ^ | 1:07 AM - 06/04/2014 | Betsy Rothstein

[House Atreides]

Which gives great credence to the theory that he was going to resign early next year, and let the Mississippi GOPe ( that’s you, Haley) pick the replacement..who would be expected to win easily in 2016..
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BINGO — And it bears repeating; Cochran is simply nothing more than a puppet of the progressive/corruptocrat wing of the Republican Party.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Based on how he comes off in the story he really has no business being a senator anymore.

Except that we allowed Robert Byrd to remain there until he was far, far worse.

[Black Agnes]

That was a meet’n’greet. This chick interviewed him at length. He still didn’t recognize her 30m later.

[RIghtwardHo]

I’m an old coot and I can say with assurity that old coot is too old to serve another term.

[onyx]

That’s the point.

[onyx]

LOL. Right on!
God bless.

[Black Agnes]

Oh yeah. Quayle not recognizing someone from one of hundreds or more he’d shaken hands with is one thing. Not recognizing someone who’s just interviewed you is disturbing.

[onyx]

Precisely.

[DoodleDawg]

Except that we allowed Robert Byrd to remain there until he was far, far worse.

And in fairness Strom Thurmond as well. And the scary thing is that in the case of Cochran and Byrd and Thurmond you know that most of the decisions were probably made by the Senate staffers and the Senator voted as he was told. In Cochran's case it could well be that admin assistant he's "renting" an apartment from. So there goes the whole idea of accountability to the people who elected you. The real power is being wielded by unelected people pulling the strings.

[DoodleDawg]

I met Dan Quayle one time in a greeting line and then got out of line and back in a minute later. He introduced himself again with the same fake smile and NO recognition.

I can understand a face in the line. But in Cochran's case the reporter had just spent an extended period of time interviewing Cochran, and 60 minutes later it's as if they had never met.

[faucetman]

Byrd and Thurmond were icons of the Senate. A little special treatment for them is okay, but THAD WHO?

[WKB]

(. ‘Hello, how are you doing?’ he said with a kindly smile. ‘I’m Thad Cochran.’)

At least he remembers his lines well.
He’s not saying “Now what was it Haley told me to say”

[hinckley buzzard]

There are several kinds of dementia in addition to Alzheimers, and he definitely has one of them.