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“Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as “that Jew,” at a county Republican meeting last week. “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” Hendren told Arkansas blogger Jason Tolbert. “At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’” he explained. “I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as ‘that Jew’ and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say.” Late Update: Hendren gave a further apology to the Associated Press. “When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people,” he said. He also added: “I shouldn’t have gotten into this Jewish business because it distracts from the issue.””
—Arkansas GOP Senate Candidate Apologizes For Calling Schumer “That Jew” | TPMDC
Pretty sure that’s not going to work.
I live in Arkansas and it is my firm belief that the Arkansas Republican Party is the worst in the nation. Despite AR being a state conservative enough to twice elect Mike Huckabee and to twice vote for Bush and once for McCain, the current Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, both Senators, three (out of four) Representatives, and super-majorities of both houses of the Legislature are all Democratic. The Republican candidates for state office in 2006 spent thousands of dollars on campaign ads warning of the threat of homosexuals adopting children. The Republicans couldn’t find a single candidate to run against Senator Mark Pryor in the 2008 election. Pathetic.
