These are indeed GOP salad days for their grifters. For the same amount Jeb! wants from donors for his Super-PAC, you can
buy the junior senator from Arkansas and get him to enlist over 47
Suckers US senators and some other idiots to write a seditious letter to the head of a foreign power.
All told, it looks like quite the fiasco. But Tom Cotton himself is probably saying, “That worked out great!”
That’s partly because the name “Tom Cotton” is now on so many lips, and he surely has more requests for television interviews than he could ever wish for. More than that, he’s shown what even a Senator who’s been in office just a few months can accomplish with a little initiative and creativity. It may be a black eye for his party, but to the tea party base from which Cotton sprang, he’s now a hero. The more criticism he gets, the more convinced they become of his heroism.
Indeed, a legislator in his home state of Arkansas has just introduced a bill that would allow Cotton to run for both re-election to his Senate seat and for president in 2020.
All the aging hawks can rest easy. The mantle of bloodthirsty warmongers has been passed to a new generation. And unlike the veterans of yore, this one makes no tepid disclaimer that war is hell or that it should ever be avoided. He straight up wants more of it. And with the GOP on a national security tear these days, he’s sure to be a big hit with the base. There’s nothing they love more than a politician spouting cretinous foreign policy nonsense and ignoring all evidence that challenges their worldview.
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