[COBOL2Java]

No, no! We conservatives have been shown the error of our ways by our betters in Washington! Mitch and Harry have helped Haley's boys in Mississippi pull one out for old Thad, and we'd better line up behind the GOP (i.e., "Give Obama Permission") and pull that lever for the "R"!

Thad'll be a good, warm seat come next Congress - he's a plant - er, a pliant Republican:

"OK, Thad, we've gotten you this far; you'll vote the way Mitch and Harry tell you to vote, right?"

"I like butterscotch."

C'mon, let's all work to have a Republican majority in the Senate (make sure they're the right kind of Republicans, like Mitch, Thad, John, Susan and Goober - er, Lindsey), so the President can have a whole other non-functional group to blame for the total meltdown that'll come just before 2016!

[billhilly]

Sure! Harry Reid wants to elect as many republicans as possible so he won’t have to have that nasty old job of majority leader. Get real.

[billhilly]

Sure! Harry Reid wants to elect as many republicans as possible so he won’t have to have that nasty old job of majority leader. Get real.

[livius]

Actually, I read that Cochran has voted against Reid about 90% of the time. I think he’s despicable in general, probably senile, and should suffer legal consequences if it can be proved he had any involvement in stealing the election through fraud, but we’ve got to keep this in perspective.

We need to have more GOP Senators, because in this current legislature and with this administration, unless there is a numerical GOP majority that takes control out of Harry Reid’s hands, you can elect all the conservatives you want and they will still be able to do nothing. In legislative politics, numbers are all.

This is true of the House, too. Things have gotten significantly better since the GOP gained control of it, but there still isn’t a big enough majority for many actions.

I think people have learned a lot from this Cochran debacle, and it has definitely discredited old guard pols like Barbour and Cochran in a big way. I think they’d find it very difficult to get away with stunts like this in the future, and if conservatives stay the course and fight against them, they won’t have much chance. If 35,000 Dems voted and Cochran still won by only 6,000 votes, that means that McDaniel would have won easily without the fraud. But in the meantime, we simply need GOP bodies in those numbered seats in Congress.