A Senator Wins a Race He Mulled Not Running [Cochran, MS]

NYT ^ | June 24, 2014 | By Ashley Parker

[Jim Robinson]

JACKSON, Miss. — The question seemed to tug at Senator Thad Cochran throughout his bumpy re-election campaign in Mississippi: Why, after a long, distinguished career — 42 years in Congress, including six terms in the Senate — was he seeking a seventh term?

By all accounts, Mr. Cochran had needed to be talked into running. He told one national publication that he had planned to retire, and another that the first thing he wanted to do after Election Day was take a nap.

And while the snowy-haired, 76-year-old Republican tried to hush whispers that he was not quite as sharp as he had once been, he occasionally gave the impression that he would have been almost as happy sitting on his front porch, sipping sweet tea, as he was campaigning.

[MikeinMotley]

Levin has this linked to his FB..check it out

http://spectator.org/articles/59821/donor-controversy-hits-mississippi-conservatives

[duffee]

“76-year-old Republican tried to hush whispers that he was not quite as sharp as he had once been,”

thad didn’t try to hush the whispers, his staff, handlers and campaign did. During the primary he didn’t really make public appearances, speeches, debate or give interviews. After the primary his campaign may have decided this strategy had worked against him so in his first speech he talks about doing “indecent” things to animals and in his interview he says obamacare is good for the country and will not be repealed, his staff calls the reporter and says he was talking about the VA.

[WilliamRobert]

No mention of facts

[Black Agnes]

American Spectator has pulled that particular article.

I found a copy of it here, we’ll see how long it lasts:

http://www.msnewsfeed.com/clinton/donor-controversy-hits-mississippi-conservatives-by-jeffrey-lord/

[MikeinMotley]

now that one is gone also! or at least on my end..wth is going on?

mim

[MikeinMotley]

thank you BA!

mim