Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton Endorses Sanders

[swilton]

Source: Sun Times Network

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has secured another endorsement, this time from an unlikely source: Republican Tom Cotton.

During an interview on “Arkansas Week: Special Edition,” the Arkansas senator said he has no plans to make a personal endorsement on his own side of the aisle but already knows who he’s rooting for in the Democratic race.


Read more: http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/2387212/republican-tom-cotton-endorses-bernie-sanders/

[Feeling the Bern]

1. Poison pill endorsement. . .intended to attempt to divide and conquer.

Cotton doesn't have a genuine bone in his bought off by Israel, traitorous slime filled ooze of a carcass.

[pnwmom]

2. So he's not endorsing Bernie for the General, just for the primary.

And we're supposed to be impressed by that?

[JonLeibowitz]

14. I think this endorsement is some kind of RW joke.

[Tarheel_Dem]

30. ^^^ THIS ^^^

[Gothmog]

3. The National Review is also asking conservatives to support Sanders

The idiots at the National Review are urging conservatives to support Bernie Sanders http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/bernie-sanders-republicans-myra-adams

Support Bernie Sanders!

This is a call to action for every Republican anxious to win back the White House in 2016. Bernie Sanders, the socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, is now surging in his quest to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. He is attracting media attention and large crowds, and is invigorated by a New Hampshire–primary poll showing him only 10 points behind frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

After a GOP power player sent me a piece from left-leaning Salon headlined “Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders,” my heart went pitter-patter, beginning to sense an opportunity. But it was not until I saw a headline in The Hill warning that the “Sanders surge is becoming a bigger problem for Clinton,” accompanied by “It may be time for Hillary Clinton to take the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders more seriously,” that I was truly motivated to join Team Bernie and rally my fellow Republicans to do the same.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/bernie-sanders-republicans-myra-adams

The GOP is urging people to support sanders because the conservatives know that they can not beat Hillary Clinton. The author of this article actually made a contribution to Sanders.

[LiberalArkie]

12. The problem is those folks do not live in the south. By telling the red necks down here to vote

for Sanders may make Sanders the president. The heavy thinkers can't shift gears to support a Republican in the general that easily after saying they are supporting Sanders.

This could very easily backfire on them.

But then again the Republican power brokers may be scared to death of Trump or Cruze or Carson.

Who knows now, I did not think this could get any weirder.

[Robbins]

4. Republicans are scared to death Bernie will win dem nodd

and they have to change their 2016 playbook.

this is all about trying to help Clinton by trying to make it sound like they want to run against Bernie.

[Renew Deal]

7. Reverse Psychology

[LiberalArkie]

10. It is whatever the Koch brothers tell him to say.

[Art_from_Ark]

24. Mark Pryor tried to warn Arkansas voters about Cotton's Koch connections

Unfortunately, too many voters didn't care.

[Truprogressive85]

5. Why post this!

Who cares about Sen. Cotton


He tried to undermine the Iran deal so f*+* him

[Rose Siding]

6. I'm afraid I'm going to have to throw Tom under the bus

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Tom_Cotton.htm

https://www.conservativereview.com/members/tom-cotton/

[Ed Suspicious]

8. Can I drive?

[Cha]

17. LOL. that the guy that didn't want President Obama's Iran deal so bad he sent a letter..

to undermine it..

snip//

To a growing list of ways Republicans have tried to undermine President Barack Obama, add writing a letter to Iran’s leaders while the Obama administration is at a critical moment in negotiating a nuclear deal with Tehran. A letter addressed to “leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran” and signed by nearly four dozen GOP senators Monday drew harsh criticism from the White House and some Democratic senators, who saw the move as a new extreme in the politicization of foreign policy. The letter, signed by 47 Republican senators, warns Iran’s leaders a deal brokered by Obama could be reversed if it's made without congressional approval, the New York Times reported.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who drafted the letter, said it was meant to educate Iranian leaders who might not understand the American system of government

.http://www.ibtimes.com/iran-deal-white-house-democrats-blast-republican-senators-letter-tehran-over-nuclear-1841344

[LiberalArkie]

20. You just have to love Arkansas politics. Never a dull moment

[LiberalArkie]

9. Ok here is the interview, if anyone has the stomach to watch it. I can't find a written report.

http://www.aetn.org/programs/arkansasweek/january_1,_2016


Republican Sen. Tom Cotton from Arkansas is feeling the Bern, joking that he strongly supports Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

“I, for many months, I’ve been strongly in favor of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary,” Cotten said in a year-end interview on Arkansas Week: Special Edition that aired this week and was taped in December.

On the Republican side, Cotton said he doesn’t have any plans to endorse.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/tom-cotton-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-the-democratic-nomina?utm_term=.ttoxZV3Ok&bftw=pol#.liAbn3Gr7

[craigmatic]

11. He's probably still mad at Bill for campaigning for Pryor.

[Yogert]

13. Right Wing nut endorsement

Ok kkk.

[Duval]

15. Someone just posted this on my FB page!

Well, it was mentioned that some Republicans would chose Bernie over Trump!! Thanks, swilton!

[pnwmom]

16. No, he's only endorsing for the Dem primary -- not for the General.

[leftynyc]

36. You're not getting this

He's endorsing Bernie because he knows Bernie doesn't stand a chance in the general (all the Bernie supporters can stuff their fit of the vapors over my feelings about that, I don't care - it's my opinion and they'll just have to suck up the fact I don't agree with them) and so he's endorsing who he considers the weaker candidate in the hopes of facing them in the general.

[Trajan]

37. Do vapors exist ...

In the vacuum of an ignore list?

It's gonna get stuffy in there, but I have a feeling that isn't going to change anything ....

So long ... Farewell ... Etc etc ...

[AlbertCat]

18. This is why public schools should have theater departments

So students can learn early what bad theater looks like and to recognize it when they see it.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Sounds like

Operation Chaos part deux. Any Sanders supporter out here embracing the GOP loons like Cotton, needs to think twice.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Personally, I don't give a crap who Cotton endorses

[LiberalArkie]

29. But it is funny, kind of typical Arkansas politics.

[Art_from_Ark]

32. It may be funny, but I've got to wonder

If someone who is usually diametrically opposite my political philosophy endorses me, I would have to wonder, what's this guy got up his sleeve?

[malthaussen]

21. I wonder if Bernie can refuse the endorsement.

I have to say, this is the strangest election cycle I've ever seen in all my almost-60 years. Too bad elections are about more than entertainment value.

-- Mal

[lobodons]

22. Of Course GOP wants to run against Bernie the Socialist!!

The GOP will bombard Bernie with Socialism Socialism Socialism 24/7 in the Media. Bernie has NO Chance against the GOP in a General. The GOP are masters at branding and messaging and they will go to town on Bernie the Socialist!!

[corkhead]

23. nice try, thanks for playing

[Trajan]

27. I figured I would go to town on you ...

and rid you from my life before you really had a chance to ruin my day ...

Trust me - It's GOOD to be on my ignore list !

Go Bernie !

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

35. Number 88 for me! I hardly see any clinton garbage anymore! Works like a champ!

[Trajan]

26. Tom who took a million crisp dollar bills from Bibi to help him know how to vote on the Iran deal ?

Embrace him like you would a rotten trash heap ....

[MeNMyVolt]

28. Whoa! That will change the 538 ranking.

Good pickup SBS, and congrats to his supporters.

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. K&R!

[bullwinkle428]

33. "Operation Chaos v2.0". How did that work out for them in 2008?

[angryvet]

34. I'm sorry

but that is truly scary.