I hope he (Thad Cochran) stays around for one more term. He's the South's elder statesman senator and he conducts himself with the civility and gravitas that de facto position entails. Roger Wicker has done a better job than I thought he would but he's still kind of a lightweight. Saxby is going to be replaced by a Tea Partier who will probably drag Isakson aboard the crazy train like Cruz did to John Cornyn in Texas. Vitter, Burr, Scott and Boozman are insubstantial. Bob Corker has talent but refuses to use it (or perhaps is in a party that won't let him use it). Lindsey Graham might as well be a senator from Arizona, joined to the hip as he is with John McCain as they decide which country we ought to invade next. That basically leaves Lamar Alexander as the beacon of sanity and competence among the Senate's Southern Republicans.
