That isn't the criteria. The Criteria is whether the person who got the seat was a good fit with the Washington establishment system, and you know the answer to that question.
Cochran is a good little RINO who can always be counted on to support the Washington DC spending party.
He narrowly lost in a purple state in a Democratic wave election after he himself said "macaca." The "GOP backstabbers" didn't mind control him into saying that.
Did he mention anything about Island's flipping over, or having to pass something to find out what was in it?
"Macaca" was a made up scandal in which our side fully accepted and embraced the Democrat Media Weapon's characterization of it as "beyond the pale racism". We not only let them savage him, people on our side jumped onto the dog pile.
I've made this point often. Democrats invariably say idiotic stupid things, and the media weapon passes them over. Our people sometimes say something that wasn't well thought out, and the media weapon focuses on it like a laser beam, and all our party stalwarts then agree with them that it's outrageous, and our side just needs to lose.
"I'm not a witch". "Macaca". "Women's bodies have ways of stopping pregnancy when conceived through rape." (which happens to have a basis in medical fact) and so forth.
Many people say stupid things on occasion, and Democrats say stupider things than most, but Democrats do not backstab their own candidates, and the Democrat media weapon does not attack them when they say stupid things.
In what witch-doctor world?