This is news but as of today McDaniel’s lead is dropping like a Lead Zeppelin. McDaniel’s Tea Party idiot has handed the election back to Cochran with the news of this nursing home pictures of Cochran’s wife. McDaniel needed to come clean quickly but tried the politician’s way out and acted like he didn’t know...and there is no way he didn’t for three days prior to being asked about the incident.
This is a Madison County Detention Center booking photograph taken Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Canton, Miss., of Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl, who was arrested Friday by Madison Police
and charged with a felony, exploitation of a vulnerable adult, after allegedly going into
a nursing home and photographing Rose Cochran, 72, the bedridden wife of Republican
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran without permission and posted an image online as part of a video.
Something about this whole episode smells fishy...a week ago, the big headline was Thad Cochran’s living arrangements with his long-time personal assistant. Seems that Thad rents an apartment from her in D.C., and she has accompanied him on numerous trips overseas. The personal relationship apparently began after Mrs. Cochran was placed in a nursing home some years ago after being diagnosed with dementia.
Then, just a couple of news cycles later, we have this nut sneaking into the nursing facility to photograph Mrs. Cochran, and lo and behold, the narrative changes. Cochran gets a wave of sympathy and it may be just enough to put him over the top in the primary.
To be sure, there are plenty of loons in any movement, but this all seems a little convenient. How did this guy get into the facility in the first place? My late mother-in-law spent the last eight years of her life in a nursing home. Visitors had to be “buzzed” into the wing by on-duty staff at the nurses station. Then, you had to sign in at the nurses desk, and your name had to be on the list of approved visitors. If you weren’t, the nursing staff contacted my mother-in-law’s legal guardian and if she didn’t know who the visitor was, admission was denied.
I realize that all nursing homes have different levels of security and entry procedures, but it’s hard to imagine someone the staff had never seen before being allowed to waltz into her room and start videotaping their most “famous” resident. But they were alert enough to call the cops once the taping was discovered.
If McDaniel (or anyone with his campaign) had any connection to this incident, they will go down as the biggest idiots in the history of American politics. But how was videotaping Mrs. Cochran going to benefit McDaniel? On the other hand, how does this benefit Thad Cochran? Answer that question and you may discover who was really behind this entire, sorry episode.
“This is news but as of today McDaniel’s lead is dropping like a Lead Zeppelin. McDaniel’s Tea Party idiot has handed the election back to Cochran with the news of this nursing home pictures of Cochran’s wife. McDaniel needed to come clean quickly but tried the politician’s way out and acted like he didn’t know...and there is no way he didn’t for three days prior to being asked about the incident.”
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Ahh...you’ve obviously been drinking too much of the kool-aid the NRSC, the GOPe and their mainstream media allies put out. What flavor was the kool-aid you drank?
how do you know what McDaniel “knew”? were you there with him in Miss.?