This is what Mark Levin said after the runoff:
“If I lived in Mississippi, I would not vote for Thad Cochran, because Thad Cochran has besmirched me.
Thad Cochran has told Democrats, minorities, liberals, anybody who would listen that I’m a racist and that I want to stop black people from voting.
People assigned to him, people associated with him — Cochran hasn’t denounced any of this. Mitch McConnell hasn’t denounced any of this. John McCain hasn’t denounced any of this. Haley Barbour hasn’t denounced any of this.
They’re having a party! They won!
They won, and why? They’re so desperate to keep a constitutional conservative out of the Senate? They’re so desperate to protect a man in the early stages of dementia, because he’ll vote the way they want him to vote, because they can control him?
And that’s what we’ve become? That’s what the party of Lincoln has become? The party of Abraham Lincoln has become the party of race-baiting and food stamps? The party of Ronald Reagan has become the party of race-baiting and food stamps?
This is what happens when you have no principles. This is what happens when you’ve lost your moorings.
Reagan appealed to conservative Democrats on a cultural level. He appealed to their highest aspirations, not fear mongering, not race baiting, not by promoting big government programs.
No, there’s no way Thad Cochran would get my vote. I’d be betraying myself.”
Now I am a free thinker and don't have to do what the talk radio hosts tell me, but his sentiments square right with mine.
You can get all pious on me if you want. If Cochran loses by a vote call me out that Wednesday after the election.
I know how you feel. I volunteered on my first political campaign in 1976 (I was way too young to vote that year btw) and worked my heart out for RR when challenged President Ford in the primaries. Although I was DEEPLY disappointed (I watched every single moment of the tumultuous GOP convention in Kansas City that year) RR lost to Ford, I NEVER entertained the idea of supporting Carter out of revenge and I even ended up campaigning for Ford in the Fall because I knew how bad and inept and incompetent and naïve Carter was. Sometimes we just need to grin and bear it. This will probably be Cochran’s last term in the Senate. Let him keep the seat for another six years and groom a strong conservative to eventually replace him. Turning this seat over to a Dem who will back Harry Reid makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
You think Cochran is bad? Try living in CA and being stuck with Boxer and Feinstein who NEVER vote my way on anything. I would gladly trade Boxer and/or Feinstein for Cochran any day of the week!