[petitfour]

I don’t see it as an advantage. It makes Senator Cochran look old and incapable of protecting his wife. He won’t debate. His staff calls all the shots. Cochran doesn’t look good in this.

As I already stated, Mississippi politics is a dirty business. The forces that move and shake things have their own ways of doing things. Unless you are willing to get dirty, too, you don’t get involved.

[Black Agnes]

http://mississippiconservativedaily.com/2014/03/30/plunkett-cochran-enables-barbour-to-skim-federal-money-for-family-and-clients/

I really think he wanted to retire, but Barbour couldn’t stand the thought of not being able to stick his snout in the trough anymore.