this tuesday. these pieces are tweets from a contest teach in the mississippi mud. it s a race tailor-made for the tea party, aimed at long time republican senator thad cochran. he s been in the senate a long time. how long you ask? just follow the tweets launched by supporters of tea party challenger chris mcdonnell. more on him in a moment. back to senator cochran, the tea party calls him a big spender. heresy. he s well traveled. could that mean he s out of touch with the homes back home? all this is run-of-the-mill dirty politics. here is where it gets interesting, a conservative blogger is arrested, breaking into a nursing home to photograph cochran s wife suffering from dementia. the argument is the reason he took pictures was to feed questions about cochran and long-time aide kay weber who has traveled extensively with the senator on the taxpayer dime.