Republicans are running Mitt Romney freshman House Republican Tom Cotton against incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Pryor for the Arkansas senate seat.
Cotton seemed like a sure bet, with his folksy name and Republican brand. He polled slightly ahead of his opponent, in toss-up range at 3.6%. He’s even slammed Pryor’s Christianity, like a true Republican judge of other people’s faith. But Cotton is a rigid gaffe machine who projects elitism if not arrogance, like a mini-Mitt. It’s as if Republicans don’t want to win the Senate.
Cotton’s campaign has even had their own 47% moment, per The Guardian:
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‘”He’s had kind of a bad press for being unapproachable and rigid,” one member of Cotton’s entourage, who was not authorized to speak to the press, said at the church bazaar. “I don’t see that. Maybe he’s a little on a different intellectual level.”‘
I guess by “different intellectual level” the Entourage Member meant to explain that Cotton was only seen as rigid and unapproachable because he had voted against the Violence Against Women Act repeatedly and voted to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits. He supported Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” (the non-balancing budget that the Nuns boycotted as immoral) budget and champions Bush’s approach to Social Security, which would involve private investments like the kind that disappeared in the Bush crash of 2008. This would effectively renders Social Security not secure — and thus not Social Security, but we are apparently not allowed to say that because it hasn’t happened yet.
We have to wait for disaster to occur and Republicans to admit it (there’s the rub – see 2008) before we can decry yet another “belief” system of Republican economics. You see, Factcheckers are quite sure that private investments are not the same as ruining Social Security. It’s odd that the Democratic “belief” in security (which has been working pretty well) is not given the same untouchable status. If it were, Republicans would have to prove their theory right before Democrats were called wrong for suggesting that killing the security element of Social Security would be killing Social Security.
At any rate, Cotton is against your security and women’s safety because he is on a different intellectual level. You people. You just don’t GET IT. Ring for the car, Jeeves. Must explain to the lessers that there simply isn’t enough money for their Social Security.
The Senate Majority PAC went to war over Cotton’s support for Medicare and Social Security cuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHPzJxBHLzg&feature=youtu.be
After the Entourage Debacle on August 1, Pryor spokesman Erik Dorey slammed Cotton in a statement, “Rather than leveling with Arkansans about Congressman Cotton’s irresponsible votes in lockstep with his out-of-state billionaire backers, Cotton’s campaign is instead admitting that the Harvard-educated congressman thinks he knows better than Arkansans.”
Oh, the Harvard card. Republicans hate an educated man, unless he’s wearing a cowboy hat. Cotton needs to run to the ranch or stand in a field of cotton so he can pose holding a gun while squinting menacingly at an empty chair.
The Pryor people weren’t done yet. Cotton is dismissive, they say. Dismissive. Dismissive is not good.
“Congressman Cotton’s arrogant and dismissive attitude toward Arkansans is exactly what you’d expect from an ambitious young politician, but folks here don’t need anybody else looking down on our hardworking families, and they certainly don’t appreciate his votes against Arkansas women, seniors and students hoping for the same opportunity he had himself.”
Yikes.
The bottom line here is that Republicans were set to take the Senate in this year’s midterms, but they have been sabotaging their chances at every turn by outting their real agendas too soon. Big money interests can only buy a certain kind of candidate. And thus we get the crazies and the Cottons. Cotton wants to bring the House crazy into the Senate, and that’s another ding against him. The House is not very popular (for good reason).
Cotton can fix all of this by just posing with a gun and bad-talking somebody. Anybody, but preferably someone who can’t fight back.
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