[fwdude]

It wasn’t a “draw.” McDaniel won. He just has to win again.

[centurion316]

Politics is about power. Those who get it and those get left out of it.

Often forgotten by those in the middle of the fray, but the politicians understand it, it's why they are politicians.

[AnAmericanMother]

Towery was, briefly, my state representative until he ditched politics for a role as a commentator (as well as lawyer and owning family businesses).

He is a middle of the road dead possum, and he sure demonstrates it here.

And he is such a city boy that he doesn't know that Southern pines have VERY deep taproots - 50-75 feet in some cases. What they also have is relatively narrow and fragile trunks, so that in ice storms or tornados they snap off.

[Blue Ink]

“And he might as well have lost outright this past week except for some blogger who allegedly broke into a nursing home and filmed Cochran’s invalid wife and put at least one image on the Internet. This hurt McDaniel’s candidacy.”

Please show the evidence that the reveal of Cochran’s true character hurt McDaniel more than it hurt Cochran.

From my web reading, plenty of Mississippi residents had no idea that disgusting reprobate Cochran is shacking up with a D.C. sweetie — sorry, “assistant,” and globe-trotting with her on the taxpayer dime while his helpless wife lies dying in a nursing home.

It’s pretty clear Cochran’s sordid living arrangements coming to light are why so many voted for McDaniel. I don’t know what the procedure is in Mississippi for kicking out a sitting U.S. Senator, but Cochran’s perfidy is egregious, outrageous, and ongoing. The decent people of Mississippi should be screaming for his ouster RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for the election.

[Political Junkie Too]

In Mississippi, it's simply the old guard against the next generation, plain and simple.

More simply than that, it's a staff that was used to the perks and free reign from having a senile Senator who rubber-stamped their power, who now face losing their cushy jobs because they can't prop up Cochran any longer without the people of Mississippi finding out.

-PJ

[MuttTheHoople]

Southern pine trees have real roots. they have a tap root that goes 20-30 feet down. After a hurricane or tornado, pine trees will snap above ground. On the other hand, oak trees will uproot.

I would think that they're more like weeping willows, whose root system is very shallow and will uproot after a strong storm.

[Viennacon]

“Haley Barbour, whose achievements in Southern politics are as impressive as anyone in our lifetime.”

This is the kind of thing people say about Karl Rove. Sorry, I only see a loser and an embarrassment.

[Busko]

Cochran needs to step down he is part of the regime that cannot fight the conservative battles anymore. all the cohorts are worried about losing their cush positions is one of the reasons theyh will try to keep him in the race. Cochran needs to let go and retire.

[WKB]

Mississippi is on fire for Chris ping