Republican blogger Jason Tolbert of The Tolbert Report posts a follow-up interview with State Senator Kim Hendren, the only announced GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010.

You’ll remember last week Hendren spoke to the Pulaski Co. GOP and fielded a tough audience’s questions.  Click here for a refresher.

Tolbert asks Hendren for his take on the public discussion.  Hendren admitted he felt some people had shown up at the meeting with an agenda, but he felt the “lively discussion” was a healthy one for the Republican party, Tolbert reports. 

Hendren explained a would-be “macaca” moment, when he referred to U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York as “that Jew.”

“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.  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,” Hendren said. 

He also said to expect plenty of verbal gaffes in his campaign.

“I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” Hendren told Tolbert.  “I will no doubt stick my foot in my mouth many times in the process but this is who I am.”

You can read more from The Tolbert Report at this link.