Longtime Mississippi U.S. Senator Thad Cochran dies at 81

wlbt.com ^ | May 30, 2019 | Mary Grace Eppes

[rdl6989]

ACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran died at the age of 81 Thursday morning.

Cochran (R-Miss.), who represented Mississippi in Congress for more than 45 years, passed away peacefully early this morning in Oxford.

[Alberta's Child]

Correct headline ... LAST CIVIL WAR VETERAN IN U.S. SENATE DIES

:-P

[EDINVA]

He was one of the early conservatives in the Senate. Over time what was considered ‘conservative’ when he was elected has evolved and he might not fit today’s definition, but he was conservative when conservative wasn’t cool.

[cincinnati65]

Eastland was no slouch. He served for 37 years. That's 82 years for one Senate seat, between two men.

Can you say 'term limits'?

[SMGFan]

what have been her noteworthy RINO votes this past year?

[SMGFan]

what have been her noteworthy RINO votes this past year?

[RummyChick]

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/18/how-sick-sen-thad-cocrhan/776690001/

On Wednesday, a Politico reporter interviewed Cochran briefly in a hallway and described him as appearing “frail and at times disoriented” and said that “at one point he needed a staffer to remind him where the Senate chamber is located.”

[Reily]

Here’s a question maybe someone has already researched and answered.

Prior to the 17th Amendment did senators maintain their seats for that length.

Maybe they didn’t because people just didn’t live that long.

[rdl6989]

We need a mandatory retirement age for these people.

[Yogafist]

"...and their deaths are no more important than anyone else's....."

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Absolutely right. Their is nothing respectable or honorable about our current politicians. They don't deserve statesmen status.

[Yogafist]

Their = There

[napscoordinator]

What? He’s not an active senator.

[DannyTN]

Is he going to run again?

[mad_as_he$$]

+. lols...

[GOP Congress]

I'll never forget the primary in which Chris McDaniel challenged him, where they have the runoff if nobody gets over 50% of the vote. Chris McDaniel won the initial 3-way vote, but only had 49.5% while Cochran had 45%. A 3rd candidate who got the remaining few percent. But then the RINO-run, Deep State-affiliated senate campaign committee came in HUGE for Cochran, running ads all over the state. In addition, the runoff election for the primary was open to all registered republicans, even if they didn't vote in the initial primary election. This is important. Furthermore, the Democrat candidate would have no chance in the general, so the GOP primary was essentially the race for the senate. Back to the runoff prep: The RINO's ran ads in deep-blue black areas essentially calling McDaniel a racist, and propped Cochran's record, and urged voters to register as Republican and vote for Cochran. Coupled with the massive conventional RINO Deep State ads to Republicans, Cochran eked out a win in the runoff that analysts said would have comfortably gone to McDaniel had Cochran not got a bunch of NEW crossover votes, most notably from the urban areas. THIS is Cochran's legacy in my mind: a dirty politician who used his RINO credentials to play Democratic Party politics to keep his seat. This was the trigger point for me to cede the fact that the country is lost without major upheaval that a Trump presidency cannot overcome on its own.

[dfwgator]

He can still vote, though.

[Covenantor]

Farm animals in Mississippi rejoice in his passing.

.Republican Senator Fondly Recalls Doing ‘Indecent Things With Animals’. Cochran’s audience laughed at the remark....

[Major Matt Mason]

Well, she is a "former" Democrat, so expectations should be low with regard to her voting record on the big issues that the GOP inevitably caves on.

[null and void]

These people should be leaving office walking, not on a gurney with a sheet draped over them.

A gurney and sheet suffices for some...

[Sybeck1]

True but given Cochren frame of mind did he know what was going on? Barbours bunch wad all over it

[rdl6989]

Wow, that’s crazy!