Anyone who pays attention to politics knows that what he did was out of bounds. That’s why you had the lawyerly, barely-committal statements from the senators who were asked about the outcome of the race. When Cochran walks into a room these days, it probably gets quiet. He and everyone knows he crossed the line, even establishment types.
As for punishments, punish away. It won’t amount to anything. What needs to happen is that the conservative base needs to be better educated about who it is they’re voting for. If that legwork had been done, this race would have gone to McDaniel.
OK. How do you propose to educate those 35,000 Democrat crossover voters that Barbour and Rove ginned up?