GOP's Cotton in Iowa: "I'm ready for that new beginning."

WBOC/Associated Press ^ | May 20, 2017 | Thomas Beaumont

[GuavaCheesePuff]

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared Americans "ready for that new beginning" in Iowa Friday, walking a delicate path by raising his national political profile at a time of turmoil for Donald Trump's White House.

The 40-year-old freshman Republican senator sounded national themes as the guest at the Pottawattamie County Republican Party's annual fundraiser in Council Bluffs in conservative western Iowa. It was a role thick with presidential implications despite Trump's solid standing among Iowa Republicans less than four months into his term.

[dowcaet]

Typical media. Trying to sow the seeds of dissension among us. I pray for the day when all of their false sh*t blows up in their faces and the American people reject them entirely. Oh a person can hope, can’t they?

[txrefugee]

Cotton is bought & paid for by Walmart in Arkansas. He’ll say what they tell him to say.

[blackbetty59]

Tom Cotton will make a great President someday.

[dforest]

I will say it again. These guys think those stupid fakey Trump approval polls are real. They think blood in the water.

I think they show their ugly panties.

[txhurl]

These guys have been endlessly warned. CANTORIZED soon to be a common adjective for the ones who keep it up.

[hal ogen]

No...he’ll be lucky if he is an obscure footnote. Loser.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Cotton was present, with a number other Never Trumpers, at a meeting in Florida last spring in trying to stop Trump from getting the nomination.

I live in Arkansas and voted for him, but never again, and probably never again for any Republican if Trump is forced out.

[JonPreston]

If they destroy DJT, Tommy Cotton (or any other R) will be good for about 35% of the national vote.

[rbg81]

Tom Cotton will make a great President someday

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Really? This is not the kind of thing you say 4 months into the term of a new President—from your own party.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Too skinny and dorky looking. He should not be acting like McLame.

[SoFloFreeper]

Tom, you are a good man. But please make it clear you’re not fighting DJT. One president at a time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cotton clearly wants to be seen as an on the bench Republican ready to move up. Here in S Missouri, coverage of the Arkansas senator has been sparse...

[willk]

“Typical media. Trying to sow the seeds of dissension among us. I pray for the day when all of their false sh*t blows up in their faces and the American people reject them entirely. Oh a person can hope, can’t they?”

You are 100% correct. This is the Ass Press (AP) trying to sow the seeds of dissension.

[mosesdapoet]

Watch where and when the media issues glowing reports. Cotton caved on the Obama move to lift sanctions on Iran.

[nhwingut]

I wasn’t sure about Cotton. He’s seemed hot and cold in media interviews regarding Trump. But when I saw him hanging out in that photo with McCain, Sasse, and Schumer, that’s cemented it. He’s bought and paid for by the globalists.

[Finalapproach29er]

Yep.
Wal-Mart just wants to sell cheap crap from China with no tarrifs.
Cotton appears to be their puppet.

[iowamark]

Here is an account of the event from a Republican source:

http://www.theiowastatesman.com/6501/pott-county-gop-remembers-forristall-annual-lincoln-reagan-dinner
“Pott County GOP Remembers Forristall at annual Lincoln/Reagan Dinner”

[Lurkinanloomin]

You got that wrong, Cotton was the only Senator to vote against the Corker bill.

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