[Cold Heat]

but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to deter it by establishing consequences (for me, the consequence would be a vote AGAINST the lout)

I doubt that Jesus would be a decent candidate after the Rats got done screwing up his character. Anyone who lives can be abused in this way.

Get over yourself! It is not your job to lower the divorce stats by screwing the country for six years.

[kcvl]

Mark Pryor’s own contributions to civil rights as attorney general of Arkansas, his latest has been to seriously argue that the state has a right to brand homosexuals as criminals. If you think that’s barbaric, Arkansas’ Supreme Court didn’t buy Mark Pryor’s argument, either, which speaks well not only of its grasp of the Constitution but its simple human decency.

Attorney General Pryor then accused his opponent of letting state employees choose to honor Robert E. Lee-yes, Robert E. Lee-as well as Martin Luther King Jr. It seems that the Legislature chose to set aside a holiday for both leaders, combining the best of the Southern heritage, black and white. It was a rare, solomonic decision by that body. Naturally Mark Pryor objects to it. Yet we will never be truly conciliated until we all share the same heroes.

Mark Pryor, who’s never been exactly a Deep Thinker, cannot have thought this thing through. As the Hutchinson people were quick to point out, the bill setting aside that joint holiday passed the Arkansas House 68 to 1, and it was sponsored by none other than the late Henry Wilkins of Pine Bluff and UAPB. Would Mark Pryor brand Henry Wilkins an opponent of civil rights, too? We can just imagine Representative Wilkins’ sharp, abrupt laugh in response, for he was a man always wryly bemused by the cheap ironies of politics.

Consider this a Distant Early Warning to a charming fellow when he isn’t playing politics or law: If Mark Pryor doesn’t start thinking about what he says-instead of just repeating his staff’s briefs and argumentshis whole campaign, not to say career, could amount to another one of those cheap ironies.

August 6, 2002
Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
By: Editorial Board

[churchillbuff]

It is not your job to lower the divorce stats by screwing the country for six years.

I'm a Teddy Roosevelt Republican on this one. As I wrote earlier, he said adultery and wife-dumping was loathesome, unmanly behavior that hurt not just the family but all of society. It's my right to vote against somebody in high office who does it, and I suspect there will be a number of conservative voters in Arkansas who will vote this way.