A sore loser law may prevent McDaniels from going any further, but it doesn’t preclude another Conservative from running in the general, picking up where McDaniels left off.
And I can’t imagine that there aren’t more than a few MS Conservatives who would be both viable third party/write in candidates AND are pissed about what happened.
I don't disagree with you there. If Barbour & Co. think this is the end of their problems then I think they've got another thing coming to them. The 2016 elections in Mississippi should be very interesting.