ELECTIONS ARE COMING: FOR THE ARKANSAS SENATE A REAL GOP STAR EMERGES TOM COTTON…MOVE OVER MARK PRYOR
Posted By Ruth King on May 28th, 2013
REP. TOM COTTON IS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CANDIDATES….THIS IS FROM TODAY’S WES PRUDEN COLUMN
The man most likely to run against Mark Pryor is a freshman congressman, Tom Cotton, who really, really does like guns. He’s rarely photographed without one. He looks too good to be true. He grew up in small-town Arkansas, went to Harvard, gave up the law after 9/11 to join the Army, disdaining a posting as an Army lawyer to lead an infantry company in Iraq and then Afghanistan, where he received a Bronze Star for heroism in combat. He has run in 11 marathons and earlier this year was named “the fastest man in Congress” after he won a three-mile congressional minimarathon in under 18 minutes. At 36 and 6 foot 5 inches tall, he looks like a candidate consultants dream of.
He’s a nightmare for Mark Pryor, the son of a senator and trying to survive as a Democrat in a newly Republican state. He has a long slog to re-election, but a genius from New York City just made it a little easier.
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
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