Posted on 06/26/2014 2:31:49 PM PDT by fredericbastiat1
As the establishment has thus far dominated the midterm election cycle, I believe that Cochran’s win is far more significant than Cantor’s loss in what it means for conservatives: Insurgent Tea Party candidates face serious political disadvantages — part institutional, part tactical, part ideological — but which at root result from an underlying lack of competitiveness in the war of ideas with the left, including leftists on the “right.”
A lifelong pork barrel politician like Thad Cochran could not survive to serve a 7th term in the U.S. Senate were it any other way.
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