[tanknetter]

The longer game looks at 2016 when there are a lot more GOP seats up than Dem.

It’s not enough to get to a majority this year. We need padding to protect that majority in 2016. Every seat counts, altho I’m willing to sacrifice one (which is an idea that Mark Levin proposed) to send a message. Given what happened in MS, that should IMHO be Cochrane. With the benefit that Childers appears to be a Conservative Dem in the mould of Zell Miller or Richard Shelby and will vote a lot with the GOP and might even be enticed to flip parties.

[DiogenesLamp]

It’s not enough to get to a majority this year. We need padding to protect that majority in 2016. Every seat counts, altho I’m willing to sacrifice one (which is an idea that Mark Levin proposed) to send a message. Given what happened in MS, that should IMHO be Cochrane. With the benefit that Childers appears to be a Conservative Dem in the mould of Zell Miller or Richard Shelby and will vote a lot with the GOP and might even be enticed to flip parties.

McConnell was behind that business in Mississippi. I'm willing to sacrifice both Cochran and McConnell. McConnell has deliberately made himself the face of the anti-Tea Party contingent of the GOPe.

I would like to get Miss Graham and Cornyn as well, but that's just going too far. McConnell needs to lose in Kentucky, and Cochran needs to lose in Mississippi. It will be bad enough that we have to put up with Graham and Cornyn.