Somehow I don't think bad behavior is a deal breaker
by digby
Josh Marshall says:
Cochran recognizes the obvious, which is that he can't out-Tea Party, out-crazy or out-conservative McDaniel, though it's an interesting semantic question whether McDaniel is really more 'conservative' than Cochran in any comprehensible sense of the word. The aim seems to be to make the case that McDaniel just lacks the dignity to represent the state in the Senate.
That's probably his best play at this point, although dignity is a freighted word when it comes to Cochran who is clearly not very engaged. But I think that a Southern GOP electorate that's spent a couple of decades listening to Rush and Fox News has little interest in dignity. McDaniel just sounds like your average everyday right wing conservative.
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