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What Cochran Vs. Lott Said About Today’s GOP Civil War
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| Contributor | Southern_Moderate2 |
| Last Edited | Southern_Moderate2 Jul 30, 2022 11:23pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jun 08, 2014 11:00pm |
| Description | This shift in the congressional culture was given one of its first high-profile Senate displays in June 1996, when Bob Dole unexpectedly gave up the GOP floor leader’s job (along with his Kansas seat) to focus on his challenge to President Bill Clinton’s re-election. The race for a successor came down to a contest between Dole’s top deputies. Lott, then the energetic and publicity-loving majority whip, portrayed himself as the candidate of the harder-charging younger breed of GOP conservatives and promised them a more aggressive style of leadership. Cochran, who brought a quiet courtliness to the chairmanship of the Republican Conference, marketed himself as an institutionalist who would combat the rise of shrill politics and help rebuild public support of Congress by sticking with the old-guard value of compromise over conflict.
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