The Hill: Cochran (R-MS) Mulling Retirement

[WalterMitty]

i hope he doesnt retire.  he is one of my favorite senators.

[WalterMitty]

no democrat is going to make it competitive.

[WalterMitty]

no democrat is going to make it competitive.

What makes you so sure former AG Mike Moore or Rep. Gene Taylor wouldn't make it competitive if Cochran retired?


Dave

because they are democrats.  and we are talking about mississippi.

even a conservative democrat would have a very tough time winning an open seat for the senate in miss.  (refer to tennessee 2006 for further details)

[WalterMitty]

no democrat is going to make it competitive.

What makes you so sure former AG Mike Moore or Rep. Gene Taylor wouldn't make it competitive if Cochran retired?


Dave

because they are democrats.  and we are talking about mississippi.

even a conservative democrat would have a very tough time winning an open seat for the senate in miss.  (refer to tennessee 2006 for further details)

Ford's not as conservative as Taylor and race wouldn't be a factor. Yes, that thing which carries all too much saliency in politics. African-Americans would support Taylor, as the Democrat, while MS-04 is c.75% white, according to wiki, and Taylor, I imagine, would do very well there

Taylor appears to have earned some spurs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And if "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" had spoken to me the way he spoke to Taylor, it would have taken my usual calm, dignified self all my inner strength not to have my very own Cynthia McKinney moment there and then. Brown was just a federal employee. Taylor, on the other hand, is the elected Representative of MS-04 and it is to those voters to which he is politically accountable. He's been a solid representative and would make a solid senator, you can be sure of it, given the opportunity but I don't think he'd run

Surprising as it may seem, the Republicans don't have some divine right to hold every Southern office going, whether in Mississippi or anywhere else. There seem to be many Democrats who'd be happy to write-off the South, this "one" would not be one of them

Dave

if taylor is more conservative than ford jr.  then he really should be (r-ms)

[WalterMitty]

no democrat is going to make it competitive.

What makes you so sure former AG Mike Moore or Rep. Gene Taylor wouldn't make it competitive if Cochran retired?


Dave

because they are democrats.  and we are talking about mississippi.

even a conservative democrat would have a very tough time winning an open seat for the senate in miss.  (refer to tennessee 2006 for further details)

Ford's not as conservative as Taylor and race wouldn't be a factor. Yes, that thing which carries all too much saliency in politics. African-Americans would support Taylor, as the Democrat, while MS-04 is c.75% white, according to wiki, and Taylor, I imagine, would do very well there

Taylor appears to have earned some spurs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And if "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" had spoken to me the way he spoke to Taylor, it would have taken my usual calm, dignified self all my inner strength not to have my very own Cynthia McKinney moment there and then. Brown was just a federal employee. Taylor, on the other hand, is the elected Representative of MS-04 and it is to those voters to which he is politically accountable. He's been a solid representative and would make a solid senator, you can be sure of it, given the opportunity but I don't think he'd run

Surprising as it may seem, the Republicans don't have some divine right to hold every Southern office going, whether in Mississippi or anywhere else. There seem to be many Democrats who'd be happy to write-off the South, this "one" would not be one of them

Dave

if taylor is more conservative than ford jr.  then he really should be (r-ms)

Ford was the most liberal member of TN's delegation, so by this logic, TN should have an all Republican delegation except for Ford's replacement Cohen.

lynch is the most conservative member of the massachusetts delegation

what is your point?

you are handing out 'tallest person in a room full of midgets' awards?