[Viennacon]

Didn’t Breitbart write an article kind of debunking this.

[OddLane]

Huckabee on steroids.

[GeronL]

Charles Johnson. heh

Why is it a big deal that he didn’t like libertarians? A lot of conservatives don’t.

[House Atreides]

It’s called sowing FUD-—fear, uncertainty and doubt. Expect to be up to your neck, and maybe your nose, in the FUD they will be spreading about a variety of conservative candidates. If they can get conservatives taking shots against one another, those shots won’t be going in the direction of the GOPe RINO candidates such as Lindsey Graham and the Democrats such as Pryor.

[Impala64ssa]

“If we changed the age limit, we would not get a libertarian paradise,” he wrote. “We would only get countless teenage alcoholics, even more than we have now.”
In all fairness, I've heard the late Harry Browne and most other Libertarians stress in no uncertain terms that they do NOT support allowing minors access to alcohol, tobacco, or drug use.

[man_in_tx]

Not encouraging, but.... I was a liberal Democrat in my college days, as well.

[cdcdawg]

“Still another reason (to be libertarian) is selfishness: since you are fortunate and successful, you are likely to want to hoard that fortune and success.”

Wow, how is that different from a liberal? It sounds like he would like to “spread things around a little”. It was a long time ago, but it’s not good. Maybe he was trying to ingratiate himself with the other folks there. Still better than Pryor.

[dadfly]

thanks for this post.

i fancy i can get a peek into a young man’s character from this early writing. i see a young/sharp/honest mind forming. good prose. clean. well organized/reasoned. bodes well for us. i hope he hasn’t changed much. just a bit less idealism and a bit more wise

funny, by contrast, i haven’t seen anything of obama’s student writing at the same place. and this is after 5 years as president. funny indeed.

[montag813]

So he thought Clinton was a great campaigner. Uh...DUH. The rest of it seems to be a religious-borne puritanism which he may well have outgrown. In any case, a shitload better than Mark Pryor or even the phony Huckabee.

[Lancey Howard]

"It is nice to think that you are responsible for all the good fortune and success you achieve,” he wrote. ”Another is naivete, for you are surely naive if you believe the immediately preceding proposition. Still another reason is selfishness: since you are fortunate and successful, you are likely to want to hoard that fortune and success."

The guy sounds like your typical Democrat communist. He may as well have said, "You didn't build that!"

[cynwoody]

OK. So he was jerk in college.

The operational question is, is he the best candidate on the radar to knock a Donk out of the Senate?

If the answer is yes, then send him a check. If no, then yuck up the Daily Caller.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

"pray on the most vulnerable elements . . ."

pray?

[arthurus]

He may well be a Reppublicans’ Dream but he is a conservative’s nightmare.

[ontap]

Harvard “should forbid smoking by all individuals on Harvard property, for their own sake and for the sake of those around them.

Fat chance...ever notice how many college professors smoke!!!!!

[cookcounty]

Hey, a lot of us were idiot liberals when we were in college.

And then we went to work, got married, and we saw the light.

[bamahead]

Cotton — who has been called a “Republican’s dream” by National Review and an “extraordinary figure” by the Weekly Standard — criticized politicians for not doing enough to oppose tobacco and wrote a laudatory 1996 piece praising Bill and Hillary Clinton.



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[Georgia Girl 2]

In all fairness college days are crazy days. Most people snap out of it and wise up later. My guess is that in 16 years Tom Cotton as evolved. :-)