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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen Cotton will be selected. Pres or VP. Here's what this is all about,
"any nuclear deal that the Obama administration agreed to would be undone by a future president. " the Iran letter stated. Certainly,...
President Cotton, that is. The Iran letter was simply Cotton introducing himself to the World.
His base is already fired up that this young man, an Iraqi veteran & loyalist of the hard right GOP has shown the balls to simply step right over President Obama like he wasn't here at all.
That Obama's foreign policy was so dangerously inept that Senator Cotton, hero, patriot, Iraqi Vet, emerged as a hero once again to save the country from Obama's horrible mistake.
That Senator Cotton was "chosen" as the man out front on the Iran Letter tells me that TPTB are preparing this guy to rise swiftly as a 2016 contender.
The Teaparty, GOP base & all the extremists under that tent already know all they need about Senator Cotton to hoist him as their next leader. He is all things to them. Guns, God, & Glory. And he just ignored President Obama, all they hate.
He is being groomed & presented to the GOP base & the world.
The Iran letter now qualifies him as a foreign policy expert in their eyes.
And his age represents youth, something no other contender, Dem or Republican has to offer, other than Walker.
Fresh face, Iraqi Vet & won big kudos for dealt a big kick to Obama..and that's what this is all about.
Cotton did what he was offered in exchange for hero worship by the Teapart y& Gop KKKristian, gunloving, Obama hating, voting base.
And what is most disturbing is that Not One Thing will be done to hold him & the 47 accountable, as typical, the Dems that could and should bring an official investigation will offer up damning statements to the Press & will cower at the thought of possibly growing balls to stop this Rovian scheme in its tracks. Because it is now or never at all.
This really worries me because this Country in the hands of a Walker or Cotton will be nothing like we have always know America to be.
Civil & voting rights, Women, LGBT, minorities, will be diminished. In its place will be all we come to DU to fight against every day.
They have the 2016 selection planned out just like they did with GW Bush.
Cotton has been Selected.
I have no doubt where all this is leading.
I fear this guy, he is scary..extreme.
IMO
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)popular appeal. Stunts and attention-whoring usually backfire, and this will too.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)He definately opened the door for himself with this stunt, and something tells me this wasn't his idea. He didn't put this together by himself.
It was planned by bigger players than Cotton, & he was chosen to take up the GOP cause.
HE will be well rewarded.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)I hadn't heard this conclusion before, but it's so self evidently obvious that I'm pretty sure you're right. Why else would Cotton's petition have been signed by the Majority leader and 45
other Senators?
FSogol
(45,504 posts)is shown in. The GOP was trained to hate Iran. They are confused why the GOP is siding with Iran over US diplomats.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I don't trust one damned thing the Right does. I have learned to suspect & question every single move they make.
They are not pro America unless there is a war to fight or a profit to be made.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)He has been recognized for his power in stepping on the guy they love to hate. Pres Obama.
They don't care if he is dumb or a rookie.
He stepped on Pres Obama.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)like violating the Logan Act. That way Dems can't retaliate without the GOP saying, "How dare you attack a vet??" They'll be doing the same shit with Joni PigNuts. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's not even the only federal election.
We need more than just the White House, in other words. And the local races, which NEVER get the attention they deserve, are just as important in 2016
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)That is the only goal we Dems, liberals, progressives, independents, etc..should have thru the 2016 election.
brush
(53,801 posts)Not a good combination. The Iranian foreign minister had to lecture him on international law and even our own constitution because he got it wrong in the open letter on both. And the other 46 senators stupidly signed it without running it by a legal expert.
Unbelievable!
Cotton dashed his own coming out party just as he came out onto the world stage with his uninformed letter.
He's toast and is too stupid to know that he should be ashamed and embarrassed for trying to sabotage his own country's foreign policy not to mention that he could be prosecuted for violating the Logan Act.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)That is playing quite well with the ignorant GOP base.
GW Bush wasn't popular because he was bright.
He was GOP. A Bush. He was their hero.
And he was also Selected by the GOP PTB.
He was educated in his Presidential duties once he got to the White House.
Dumb fool doesn't necessarily disqualify when one is running on the GOP ticket.
Just makes him easier to manipulate by those who actually run the show.
eaglecries
(7 posts)According to relative of his that I talked to before the Nov voting he has his sights set on much higher than a Senate seat. Oh and the relative has no use for the man even if he is kin. By the way not all here in Arkansas drink the poison of the tea baggers. Sadly enough of them do that they elected the as-h.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Frightening as hell.
He needs to be hauled in to investigate & turn over HIS private emails. Now that he's a big damn ego driven foreign policy international self appointed dignitary.
Dems will either go after him NOW to bust open this charade OR cower & step aside as he makes his way to the Presidential podium.
2naSalit
(86,687 posts)marching orders from the same financiers who wrote the damned thing. These 47 f*ckwads only signed it because that's what they do. Notice that none of them are out in public providing us with a legitimate legal argument about what they just did?
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)And old Graham stated that Senator Cotton did this to stop Obama's dangerous Iran policy.
Oh they are definately defending him.
But not exactly sticking their necks out for a statement. Only if they are confronted first.
The GOP needs a tool like Cotton to manipulate their agenda.
2naSalit
(86,687 posts)the content of their spew had nothing to do with whether this was legal and they cannot defend that part. All they are giving us are the standard excuses/talking points/scripted screed that they think will cover their sorry asses.
The great news I just saw was that the "We The People" petition to prosecute them has exceeded 100K signatures in less than 48 hours!!! It was almost at 102K when I checked half an hour ago. If nothing else, THAT should give them pause... but I think it will give them more impetus to make our lives more even miserable sooner than later. They hate us, they hate the US of A, they hate our twice elected president and they intend to screw us up the butt cruelly and often.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)They hate the America we love & have placed themselves in power by every scheme & lie, and criminal deed possible.
And they have so far succeeded.
They don't give a shit about the rule of law, or any law, frankly.
They operate by their own methods, to position themselves in place to own the USA & rewrite the American Constitution as it applies to their wishes.
That is their goal & they are nearly there.
They also well know that the next President will choose anothe Supreme Court member or two.
This is how GHW Bush sr, set the stage to change our American democracy.
Through the Supreme Court.
Game over if they succeed in 2016.
2naSalit
(86,687 posts)And I have my doubts about the Ds' ability to counter the wave. If they do win, there will be trouble as Mike Malloy said in one of the vids posted here earlier.
They are just sovereign citizens in suits defiling the capitol... they not only want a war in the ME Asap, they also want a civil war here to invoke martial law. Right now they are implementing that agenda here in a piecemeal fashion but as soon as an uprising of the GP formulates, it's all out civil war. The TP is also SC.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I am concerned that nothing will stop them from the Presidency.
Exactly what they did to select GW Bush. They scammed the election and everyone knew it and they didn't give a crap how obvious they were.
They got what they wanted. Shortly thereafter, we were attacked and off to the endless war for profit & power.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)That is it.
They are Just Sovereign Citizens in Suits..
2naSalit
(86,687 posts)for years. I live in SC country and trust me, that's what's really going on... funded by the now usual suspects.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)enterprise.
God I fear for my little grandbabes.
What a world they will have.
C_U_L8R
(45,012 posts)He almost makes Marco Rubio look like grown man
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)backward baseball cap, with Cantor & don't recall the third one.
This time around to appeal to the younger GOP base it appears the Young GOP Guns Poster will picture Rubio, Cotton & maybe Walker..or ??
stomach turning moment.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)The Duggar family, the Family Research Council, Ralph Reed, eldest son of Duggar family, Josh.
Dangerous bunch.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Don't get me started on the Duggers. Brood sow Michele Dugger legislating her religion into law to hate the smallest minority group on the planet.. Transgender.
Geez perhaps she should have taken on Pastors who molest underage girls.
The big shot pastor who Bob & Michele get paid for speaking in his super duper tax exempt church was caught enticing an underage young lady by masturbating in front of her in the privacy of his room..also tax exempt.
You think Mrs Dugger would have had an opinion as to protecting girls from the church predators..but no she chose the weakest group to take down.
transgender.
Hate those effin people and all they represent.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Our bench a bit.
I realize that the heavily-boomer skewed DU demographics may not recognize a problem, but it's there.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)moondust
(20,000 posts)May have to rassle Ted Cruz for the title.
Stinky The Clown
(67,813 posts)He's a dangerous loon. He got elected by dumbfucks who are equally looney.
The grownups in the GOP leadership don't want him around. The same could be true for Joni Ernst. When people start making Michelle Bachman and Ted Cruz look normal, TPTB see the writing on the wall and will need to engineer an exit strategy for their "rising stars".
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Difficult to count on any of them to do the country a real favor, but there's a part of me that says "they are all we have." Since I doubt the Dems would take up the Logan Act & peer into Cotton's private emails. I would be shocked if they did.