Um, you really need to go back and read Parker’s article. There’s a serious disconnect between what she wrote and what you seem to think she wrote.
She basically makes three points. First the Cochrane Campaign clearly telegraphed what it’s was going to do. Second the McDaniels campaign screwed up by not noticing it and coming up with a counter strategy. Third, that counter strategy was to go into Conservative Black churches and sell Conservatism on it’s merits, as Reagan would have done, without pandering. Thus pulling enough Black Conservative votes into the election to counteract the Black Liberal votes being pulled in though Cochranes manipulations to swing the election to McDaniels.
The way I see it you and Star are actually on exactly the same page here.
If I’m confused, it’s because the suggestion was that McDaniel should do as Cochran did, only that he should go to conservative, not liberal, black churches. Leave aside the fact that churches are for glorifying God and saving souls, not for politicking. The fact is, Cochran did not go to liberal black churches & appeal to liberal blacks. He BOUGHT the black votes he needed to illegally overturn the election. The idea that what he did is somehow a how-to lesson to McDaniel is screwed-upedness at its worst. If McDaniel had had the $ needed to buy a sufficient # of votes to win, & had done so, he’d be as bad as Cochran. So what would be the point?