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Cochran has 1st Amendment right to use anything in his Ads.
If the content is lies and smears as you claim, the he can be sued for libel by the McDaniel campaign. Is such a suit coming soon? If not you are just blowing hot air.

Let’s list the facts...
1. Cochran is a RINO
2. McDaniel is TEA party
3. Cochran had lot more campaign cash available
4. McDaniel had committed supporters but not enough cash.
5. Cochran used his superior money advantage for negative Ads
6. McDaniel could not run counter-attack Ads for lack of funds.
7. 30,000+ Democrats came out to vote for Cochran
8. If the democrats did not vote in primary, they were eligible voters in the runoff.
9. If more than 7000 of those democrats voted in democrat primary, then their votes in run off are illegal. But unless that can be proven, Cochran wins legally.

In summary, incumbents usually have more campaign funds than challengers. That is why they are re-elected 85-90% of the time. If Cochran wins legally, I do not want the democrat to win in general because then he becomes incumbent in 6 years.

‘If the content is lies and smears as you claim, the he can be sued for libel by the McDaniel campaign. Is such a suit coming soon? If not you are just blowing hot air.’

You’re living in an alternate universe. Dems smear Republicans single campaign cycle. Lies are allowed. No one is ever sued. Are you really this uninformed, or is something even worse wrong on your end?

The difference here is that a Republican used vile lies and smears against a fellow Republican. That rarely happens, & has never happened to this degree. Cochran used low-life, shameless, unconscionable tactics against a Conservative. That is why & how he essentially split the GOP, & there will be hell to pay for years to come.

Wes Pruden has been around the political block a few times. I doubt his wisdom will do you any good, but fwiw:

“After [Cochran] ran a close second in the preferential primary, he was widely regarded as a dead duck. The men with the most to lose if the senator lost, led by Haley Barbour, the former governor and a big-time Washington lobbyist, went to work. They revived a strategy that worked in the past, organizing black preachers and white unionists who ordinarily couldn’t find a clothespin big enough to keep the stink out of their nostrils when forced into close quarters with a Republican. Soon they were employing all the old tactics the segregationists once used, the “walking-around money” distributed to preachers in storefront churches to get out the vote, rumor, innuendo and finally to the not-so-subtle race-baiting that once worked so well.

The reminder of the bad old days, which have no legitimate echo today, worked. In Jackson and surrounding Hinds County, where 16,649 voters cast ballots for the candidates three weeks ago, 24,889 voters cast ballots this time — in a county with only 20,567 Republicans registered to vote. Thousands of those voters were in black neighborhoods, where “Republican” is a reviled word. The pattern was repeated even more emphatically in the Delta counties along the Mississippi River.

The black preachers and politicians, Democrats all, now rightly claim credit for saving Mr. Cochran from the evil Tea Party Republicans, and they’re entitled to their reward, such as it may be. They should bear in mind that the senator is not likely to show any more loyalty to them than he has shown to his own party. He will likely disappoint everyone but the lobbyists who used race and resentment to aid his escape from oblivion. If he wants to do the really honorable thing, he would consider switching parties.

Betrayal is a dangerous game. The gains are nearly always for a shorter term than expected. The establishment Republicans have a lot to say about big tents and party loyalty, but when someone without “the smell of the hive” unexpectedly upsets their candidate, there’s the urge to squash and pout.

The Tea Party is a blunt instrument, a reaction to establishment arrogance. Their candidates are new to the game, always bold, usually brash and sometimes unsophisticated, and learning. But they’re not going away. “The duel between the Hatfields and the McCoys is far from settled,” says one Republican strategist. In fact, it has barely begun.”

Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.