Not what I particularly want to happen but what I think the GOPe wants to happen. Cochran wins primary and general. Cochran is old and decides to retire. Gov. Bryant appoints a Republican to fill his chair until there has to be an election to fill his term. I think Cochran is so entrenched this will happen.
Another issue is Gene Taylor posing as a conservative and challenging Steve Pallazo in MS4. I have lived in this district over 32 years and watched Gene. He has always been a Democrat and caucused with them. He had the opportunity to switch to Republican long ago and chose not to.
I think Steve Palazzo is doing a great job representing the interests of the MS coast and will always caucus with the GOP.
I’ve heard lots of people complain about Palazzo.
But Taylor, of course, is no alternative. He can go straight to hell. He missed his window to be welcomed into the GOP.
I agree with you re: Taylor. I recall him saying back when he was in the House that he would feel as a whore were he to switch to the GOP. Well, I guess he’s a whore now. I hope that Palazzo beats him like a rented mule.
As for what tbe GOPe wants, I couldn’t care less. I hope that McDaniel beats Coxhran by enough of a margin that Cochran voters don’t become petulant and actually support the GOP nominee. But I don’t think that Cochran would retire early to have the governor name his replacement—Trent Lott was a special case (he wanted to make money lobbying, and thus had to quit by December 31), and I think that Cochran will stick around until the bitter end.