There\u2019s a handful of incumbent Democrat senators facing some very tight races this coming November. Keeping them in the national news is the political tap-dancing they are being required to perform to put distance between themselves and their increasingly unpopular president, who is leading their party determinedly and destructively left. These senators are particularly vulnerable for their support of Obamacare which they all irresponsibly voted for without having a clue as to what they were inflicting on their constituents. Facing tough re-election contests, you\u2019d think they might attune their political sensitivities to the decidedly dyspeptic mood of their constituents. Well, not so much with our tone deaf Democrat senator here in Arkansas, Mark Pryor. <\/p>\n
I recently received an email from Pryor\u2019s Republican opponent, Congressman Tom Cotton, informing me that Pryor had recently been a guest of honor at a $10,400 per plate fundraiser in Hollywood. I admit to being a Cotton supporter ( he served in the same regiment<\/a>, the 506th Infantry of the 101st Airborne that I once did) but even so, I thought to myself this had to be political hyperbole. I simply could not believe that Pryor could be so politically dense as to hand his opponent such a risky advantage in such a tough fight. So I went on line and sure enough, there was ol\u2019 Mark, supping with socialist swells<\/a> (don\u2019t expect to find any mention in the Democrat media) out there on the Left Coast, at a dinner sponsored by Alan Horn, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, a noted lefty fundraiser, gathering in boodles of ultra-lib California cash to bring back to Arkansas to spend pounding on a down-home, good ole boy, Army war veteran. <\/p>\n Folks, this is Arkansas, a place where the term carpet bagging<\/a> still leaves a bad taste in the mouth; and while there is still a solid contingent of the Old South Democrat party here, it is not even close to being in tune with those Chablis-sipping, Left Coast, limousine-liberal Democrats underwriting Pryor\u2019s campaign. Most folks here in this graceful, thriving example of the Old South, embrace the reality (and what we consider an absolute blessing) that we are in flyover country. Down here, California, particularly Hollywood, is perceived as poorly here as all those Yankee blue enclaves up north, like Sheecago, Deetroit and Noo Yawk City. Pryor may be home-grown and from an old Democrat dynasty, but injecting flaming, decadent<\/a>, Hollywood liberals and their ill-gained wealth into this Arkansas campaign is begging for the response that Cotton\u2019s campaign is more than happy to hand him. <\/p>\n Right now there must be a whole bunch of Arkansas Democrat movers and shakers out there shaking their heads and wondering just what the hell that boy thought he was doing going out there for crying out loud. My first thought in that regard was: Desperation. As for the ever expanding Republican Party in Arkansas, they\u2019ve just been handed proof positive and endlessly reproducible that their main line of attack is rock-solid: Mark Pryor has become a liberal, elitist, bi-coastal, socialist, more attuned to the politically correct and lib-looney interests on both coasts than those of the down home folks<\/a> here in Arkansas. The Natural State<\/a> just went through its coldest winter in years, but I\u2019d bet big bucks Mark Pryor is in lock step with the hysterical, Chicken Little, global warming policies of his party. Know that saying that, \u201cYou can take the boy out of the country but you can\u2019t take the country out of the boy?\u201d <\/p>\n Mark Pryor, one more tone deaf Democrat is living proof that you can do that indeed. <\/p>\n An edited version is crossposted at American Thinker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"