Posted on 12/12/2013 6:35:29 AM PST by thetallguy24
So Steve Stockman is running for Senate. It’s all over Twitter, it might be all over Facebook depending on what kind of friends you have, and it’s the talk of this town (if you know what I mean). Initial coverage has suggested that the stand-off — between Representative Stockman, the East Texas far-far-right conservative, and Senator John Cornyn, an incumbent whose votes have rankled some Texas tea-party activists — will be another chapter in the nigh-unending saga of tea-party insurrectionists versus the Big Bad Establishment. But it’s actually much more complicated than that.
For one thing, it’s hard to imagine the race being much of a contest. Stockman has just $32,000 cash on hand per his latest filings (and $163,000 in debt). And he’s been beleaguered by allegations of ethics violations since entering office. Plus, with the primary set for March 4, he has less than three months to pull off a statewide victory — or, at least, to win enough votes to send the race to a runoff. So his odds are, uh, less than great.
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I absolutely can't stand Cornyn, but Stockman seems a little off. His "Become a Sentinel" page on his website says, "If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted."
I am as pro-life as you can get, but that quote just seems asinine.
The same kind of bogus "ethics violations" that they used to drive Tom DeLay from office.
What exactly is wrong with that?
Thanks in advance.
It’s National Review, so I have to take into account that the source is STUPID. It seems Stockman was aiming for the publicity and hoping donations would let him pay off his debt more than actually try to be a real rival to Cornyn.
By all means, buy whatever the mainstream press is selling.
LOL well in reality, if unborn babies had guns, and were threatened with an abortion, there would be a lot of miscarriages.
#5- That was speculation. Stockman could be “the guy”, we shall have to wait and see
You also have posted against Abbot.
I suspect that you aren't much of a conservative.
/johnny
How horrible, a genuine primary with more than one conservative? /sarc
I mean I agree that Stockman seems like a super long shot and maybe a little crazy, but I mean this is congress after all.
/johnny
Well if Stovall’s accusations are true, this would be pretty underhanded of Stockman.
Unfortunately, Stovall uses great rhetoric, but his presentation isn’t very professional. Unkempt, and won’t wear a tie, etc.
Just like in the Virginia Governors race, the Democrats have beeen behind these Republican Primary Challengers and Independent so-called Tea Party candidates. It is their divide and conquor strategy. Always follow the money whenever you see these challengers in the primaries and then the “Independents” or Liberatarians” in the General. They are really Democrat “Plants”.
/johnny
Hit the wrong key. Should have been “conquer”, not “conquor”.
Exactly. Vote for anyone but Cornyn - but vote!
I promised Cornyn after the cloture vote that I would do everything in my power to make sure that he got retired.
/johnny
Yep, me too. Anyone But Cornyn.
It is; despite all the asinine grief you've been given for stating the obvious.
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