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There Can Be Only One, Fortunately
The real driver for Senators Cotton, Hawley, and Cruz being in the news is all three see themselves as the next GOP presidential nominee
Politics has taken a back seat lately but let us not forget there is fierce competition for the nomination for president…
For the 2024 GOP nomination for president, that is.
Senator Tom Cotton got an entire weeks worth of free press, two Op-Ed rebuttals, and the head of the opinion editor, out of the New York Times along with coining the phrase “Obelisk of Wokeness” that is forever in the Congressional Record now. Josh Hawley continues his perpetual campaign to make the internet safe for you plebes by punishing “the elites” that would not treat you as fairly as the elite Josh Hawley would. And Ted Cruz continues his descent from trying to ride the religious right to the presidency in 2016 after a career as a senator and constitutional lawyer of some note to having spent much of Sunday losing a Twitter spat with Ron Perlman.
What a time to be alive.
These folks aren’t just keeping high profiles for the ego-stroke of it, thought there is plenty of that to go around. No, the real driver here is all three see themselves as the next GOP presidential nominee. All…
