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6/7/14,
"Thad Cochran’s campaign denies he’s a lackwit," Streiff, RedState.com
"
On the day of the Mississippi primary election,
The Atlantic’s Molly
Ball published a profile on septuagenarian Senator Thad Cochran called
Thad Cochran, the last of the naïve Republicans.
Great piece. I encourage you to read it. It gives a good profile of the
pathetic nature of Cochran, his campaign, and his supporters. What is
most interesting is the way Ball
revealed his severely diminished mental
acuity:
"I followed Cochran from the square to a local diner,
Jean’s Restaurant, where patrons swiveled away from plastic plates of
boiled okra and corn fritters to shake his hand. On the wall were two
framed photographs of Chris McDaniel. The restaurant’s owner, Diane
Trammell, told me McDaniel had visited twice and stayed for an hour each
time. “I don’t recall the last time I seen Thad,” she said. She’d
always voted for Cochran in the past, but now she wasn’t sure.
Cochran didn’t pose for any pictures during
his brief sweep. As he
made his way toward the exit, the senator held out his hand to me.
I had
met and interviewed him less than half an hour before. “Hello, how are you doing?” he said with a kindly smile. “I’m Thad Cochran.”"
Thad Cochran, not a genius on his best day, has had
his mental
faculties the subject of rumors for some time....It was a subject widely discussed in political
circles but only now seeping into the public consciousness. For
instance, Dave Weigel writing in
Thad Cochran and the age issue no one wants to talk about....
Let’s cut to the chase. Thad Cochran is an old man.
Nothing inherently
wrong with that, in fact, most of us aspire to that status. But where
some old men have wisdom and mental acuity, Thad Cochran is manifestly
not one of them. He is disinterested in politics beyond wanting to be a
senator,
he is unable to answer softball questions, and he can’t
remember who he talked to a mere half hour after the event. Even his
staff can’t deny this."...
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8 among
comments to above at RedState:
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"
gawken
•
a day ago
If Cochran't won't debate, and the Miss MSM can't successfully force
one ( which I think they can easily do - unless they don't want to help
McDaniel) then Chris should borrow a page from Clint Eastwood..which
would be wildly popular in Miss, and
hold a "debate" with an empty chair
on the stage."
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"steve51
gawken
•
10 hours ago
Heh, heh, that's sounds like a good idea.
The only problem I see with
that is that a faux debate would likely make Cochran look far more in
touch than he is or has been for some time now."
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"pistolpacknmama
gawken
•
18 hours ago
Ted Cruz did that to Dewhurst, only since the forum had all the
candidates seated at a long table on stage,
he had the empty chair and a
milk carton with Dewhurst's picture on it. I only went to one meet the
candidate event, but I imagine that milk carton traveled all over Texas
with Cruz!
Dewhurst never bothered to show up, assuming that Senate seat
was his to buy/inherit."
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"Duke
•
a day ago
Shades of Robert Byrd, a denizen of D.C., who hadn't even visited his
home state of W. Virginia in over two years prior to his death in
office following 50 years of image building by his staff and his
propagandists in the media."
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"gmscan
Duke
•
a day ago
I was thinking the same thing. Pathetic how they would wheel Bobby in
for important votes and wheel him out again after the vote was cast.
The "greatest deliberative body" indeed."
Sen. Robert Byrd in 2009 at age 91.
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"Tbone
•
a day ago
.
He is a senile old fart living a real life version of Weekend at
Bernie's being propped up by his coterie of scumbag lackeys because he
is their meal ticket at the Royal Court of St. Inside the Beltway."
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"joshinca
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a day ago
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"The Cavalier
joshinca
•
17 hours ago
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It says all you need to know. IF I knew nothing else about him, this would be enough."
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Image above AP from article, Byrd was 91 at the time: Nov. 18, 2009,
"Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va.,
accompanied by long time staffer and scheduler Martha Anne McIntosh,
waves as he arrives back on Capitol Hill in August. (AP Photo/Susan
Walsh, File)
"
West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd becomes longest-serving U.S. lawmaker," AP via blog.al.com,
WASHINGTON -- "West Virginia Sen.
Robert C. Byrd became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional
history Wednesday, a milestone to be marked with a morning of Senate
tributes and a special resolution....
Friday is his 92nd birthday."
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