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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:39 PM Mar 2015

Tom Cotton ‘is a Neocon monstrosity out of central casting’

Tom Cotton ‘is a Neocon monstrosity out of central casting’

NJ.COM

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/tom-cotton-is-a-neocon-monstrosity-out-of-central-casting/

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And if that wasn't enough bluster for one communique, Cotton's follow-up interviews made it clear that Tehran must capitulate or face military force - apparent proof that 430,000 Arkansans elected a Commander in Chief while nobody else was watching last November.

Cotton, known to New Jerseyans as the guy who voted against Hurricane Sandy relief because Arkansas "should not have to bail out the Northeast," has since been denounced by members of his own party. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said it best: "We ought to support the negotiations going on," he said, "and this effort does not do that."

But whether Cotton's letter is credible is another matter, given that its author cannot attain that standard.

He is not a "traitor" as some claim, but Cotton is a novice with pitifully shallow motives. He is a Neocon monstrosity out of central casting, someone who calls Iraq a "just and noble war," who wants to use the espionage act against journalists, and even campaigned on a baseless fear that ISIS "could infiltrate our defenseless border and attack us right here in Arkansas."




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Tom Cotton ‘is a Neocon monstrosity out of central casting’ (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2015 OP
Why do I suspect that he was given the job... TreasonousBastard Mar 2015 #1
They are nuts. They want others to fall (in this case peace with Iran). They enjoy watching and applegrove Mar 2015 #2
Because rethugs are cowards that will Takket Mar 2015 #3
Cotton is definitely a nimrod The Rob Black Show Mar 2015 #4

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Why do I suspect that he was given the job...
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:51 PM
Mar 2015

so he would take the fall-- leaving other, and possibly more dangerous, Republicans to look like elder statesmen by comparison.

Haven't we seen this script before?

applegrove

(118,696 posts)
2. They are nuts. They want others to fall (in this case peace with Iran). They enjoy watching and
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:54 PM
Mar 2015

causing others to fall.

Takket

(21,581 posts)
3. Because rethugs are cowards that will
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 11:01 PM
Mar 2015

Stab their own in the back just as quickly as they will a democrat if if suits them.

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