Need political cleanse

Sassy Sarah says she is going to protect us from the radical-left socialists in Washington who want to take away our freedom and destroy our way of life. Get real, Sarah. There is nothing the governor of this red-infected state can do to meaningfully affect policy in Washington, D.C. Nada, zippola.

I find it both ironic and hypocritical that her ubiquitous TV ads show scenes of Central High School, and refer reverentially to the Little Rock Nine when her advertised objective is to resist the federal government in the same way Orval Faubus did in 1957.

Why is Sassy Sarah so interested in becoming governor of Arkansas? Heck, her Daddy did that 20-plus years ago. I think she has her eyes set on the Senate. That’s where the real money is. Home of the lobbyists and national PACs that really run the country. Where “money doesn’t talk, it swears,” as Bob Dylan so aptly put it. Sen. John Boozman is the likely opponent. But who knows? Sanders is an original Trumpette and she is docile enough to bend to his every wish; maybe vice president in 2024?

Unfortunately, there is no alternative to Sassy Sarah in this Democrat-free zone we call home (at least she’s not Leslie Rutledge). Now that the Legislature has chopped Pulaski County into thirds, say goodbye to any meaningfully Democratic candidate for the 2nd District.

That’s probably a good thing in the long run. We need a political cleanse. Until all the Trump residue is flushed down the drain, we will stay a one-party state, stagnant and inbred, held back by religion and afraid of the progressive ideas and programs that might improve the lives of most of the citizens of the once-Natural State.

DAVID ELI COCKCROFT

Little Rock