The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette endorses Tom Cotton for U.S. Senate:
Tom Cotton is a different kind of candidate in this season of mushy politicians who say different things to different people in different places (like Arkansas and Washington, D.C.), and hope it'll all hold together long enough for them to win another term--so they can continue to fade into the annals of mediocrity in a secure berth. Congress, like any bureaucracy public or corporate, is full of such time-servers whose principal function is to warm a seat till they're ready to collect their generous pensions. It's a most comfortable arrangement for all concerned--except maybe the people of the United States, who deserve something more in their leaders. Like vision, principle and courage. This year's race for the U.S. Senate in Arkansas offers a clear choice: a choice between mediocrity (or maybe less) and a quality that may not be easy to define, but one that time after crucial time in American history has been embodied by great leaders who appeared just when they were most needed. The world's last best hope, Mr. Lincoln called this country, and if it is to remain so, the quality we're talking about must shine again. And what is that quality? Whatever it's called, it's something people have recognized in Tom Cotton at every stage of his coming of age. Just as Richard Arnold was recognized at Yale, and then at Harvard Law, long before he became a great jurist, some say the greatest never to have sat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Call that quality a potential for greatness, a belief in principle even when principle isn't easy to uphold. It's not just an ability to cut through all the cant of politics but a demonstrated talent for it. John F. Kennedy alluded to that quality in the title of a book he wrote about great senators: Profiles in Courage. "This is a book," Senator and later President Kennedy explained, "about that most admirable of human virtues--courage." It may also be the most indispensable of virtues, for without it, all the others don't mean much. Any more than even the greatest of principles don't mean much if we lack the courage to practice them.
Whole thing here.