Posted on 12/12/2013 11:19:24 AM PST by Baynative
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.On a recent late-fall Saturday, Barbara Deuschle, a local restaurant owner, was recounting her first impression of her congressman, Tom Cotton, who is now running for the Senate. It was back in August 2011, just before the young Republican lawmaker formally announced his first campaign for the House, and Cotton and his dad came to a party meeting to get to know the faithful. Cotton was a 34-year-old political unknown who had recently lived in Washington. "When he just parachuted down into this district, nobody ever heard of him," she recalls. "I said, 'Who are you? We'd never heard of you before, where have you been? And what's this all about?' I grilled him for about 20 minutes."
There is little doubt that Cotton is winning conservative hearts and minds in Washington.
She began to piece together Cotton's personal historyborn in Yell County; spent time in Cambridge, Mass., Iraq, Afghanistan, and Washington, including a stint in the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. She had read recently that the guards who stand sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns are expected to have a 30-inch waist, and the diminutive Deuschle remembers gazing up at the 6-foot-5 veteran. "He's so tall. I'm looking about at his belly button. I'm seeing his belt buckle, this skinny, teeny little waist, and I said to him, 'Well, yeah, you still could be one of them,' " she recalls. "And he's so humble! And unassuming!" Deuschle was impressed, if a little suspicious. "I spent the next 10 months going around trying to figure out, 'What is wrong with him?' He was too good to be true."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
We "need to find" nominees in NH and VA, AR is set with a very good nominee who leads his dirty rat opponent.
Disloyalty and contempt to the Constitution is an automatic disqualifier, not a “minor issue”.
Uh huh. So are you a Ron Paul true believer?
Some of us take a more serious approach to political races.
Ain’t nothing more serious than defending the Constitution.
I find you very suspicious my newly arrived friend. Supporter of Mandela as well are you?
Cotton, a U.S. army veteran, also criticized those who compare controversies involving the Internal Revenue Services and the National Security Agency.The reality, of course, is that the two scandals are identical in their essential nature, and symptomatic of the same underlying rot in our government.
The IRS is full of political partisans like Lois Lerner, who violated their mandates by targeting American citizens for constitutional abuses, Cotton said. The NSA by contrast is full of career military officers who follow the law by targeting foreign terrorists to protect American citizens.
Cotton isn't stupid; he would surely laugh at the notion that putting on a lab coat automatically makes one smart or that putting on a tuxedo automatically makes one cultured. Unfortunately, his emotional biases blind him to the equally self-evident fact that putting on a uniform doesn't automatically make one patriotic.
I was looking (in vain) for my reprehensible representative among the opponents to the Ryan/Murray budget thing.
Tom Cotton voted against it.
Well that’s a good sign.
I’m really disappointed in my Rep as well. Normally a pretty conservative guy (Dr. Tom Price).
Unfortunately, his emotional biases blind him to the equally self-evident fact that putting on a uniform doesn't automatically make one patriotic.
Very valid points. However, I still back his Senate bid. And still question legislation sponsored by lame Paulbot Amash that got more RAT votes than GOP.
/johnny
I was wondering why I didn’t get a reply with more nuggets of libertarian wisdom.
The way that person was posing it was only a matter of time.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.