Posted on 02/19/2014 5:51:14 AM PST by bestintxas
John Cornyn has come a long way since 2002, when he was first elected to Phil Gramm’s old seat in the U.S. Senate. In just two terms the 61-year-old has become the senior senator from Texas and the minority whip, making him the second-highest-ranking Republican in the chamber. But it was his split with freshman senator Ted Cruz over Obamacare this fall that turned heads in conservative circles back home. Cruz favored a partial shutdown of the federal government to defund the health care law; Cornyn believed that strategy was a mistake for the party. On November 27 Texas Monthly caught up with him to discuss his reelection campaign, his relationship with the tea party, and what he really thinks about Cruz.
Brian D. Sweany: You spent the morning at the Ronald McDonald House in Austin making lasagna for the families staying there. I’d say your skills in the kitchen were pretty impressive.
John Cornyn: Well, I’ll confess that I had never made lasagna before, but I can take instructions pretty well. I like to cook, but I don’t have the opportunity as much as I used to.
BDS: An event like that must be a welcome change from the atmosphere of Washington, D.C.
JC: Absolutely. I always tell people that Washington is like Disneyland: it’s a fascinating place to visit, but it’s not real.
BDS: Of course, you’re hoping that the voters will send you back next year for a third term. What do you need to do to make the case for your reelection?
JC: Texas is growing every day, and the last figure I heard is that we are adding more than 1,400 new
(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...
Cornyn "I think David Dewhurst has been a good public servant, and had he been elected, I don’t think there would have been much of a difference in the voting record. "
Cornyn on Cruz: "But I don’t think there is any daylight in terms of our philosophy."
Senator Cornyn, we Texans see actions speak volumes more than words. Stabbing conservatives in the back we can see clearly.
Republicans in Washington are just as accustomed to straw man augments as Obama. Purity is a straw man. We grow our party by standing for something different than the opposition. We grow by winning on public opinion, not sharing the opposition’s view with a minor shift right.
I would love to see RINOs all over Capitol Hill soiling their trousers.
Cornyn needs to be fractionally distilled.
Texas Monthly is a progressive mouthpiece.
WOWSERS!!
I would settle for TAR & FEATHERS and then run out of town on a rail.
:-)
We Texans will do our part.
You people in Cali need to step up your efforts, big time.
“John Cornyn has come a long way since 2002”
The TRUEST words ever written in any news article EVER posted on Free Republic. Although to be completely factual it should be:
John Cornyn has come a long way IN THE WRONG DIRECTION since 2002....
Every time Cornyn shows up to an event here in Texas a group of protesters should be there singing The Eyes of Texas.
“John Cornyn has come a long way IN THE WRONG DIRECTION since 2002....”
Wrong indeed. Less than two weeks he led the Democrat Party in voting against his fellow Republicans on removing ANY barrier of spending that Obama chooses.
Easily said.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily.
We had an uphill battle to get TED CRUZ through the Primary Process and then into the Senate.
Shy of that, there's not one damn thing this republican voter can do.
Trust me, I understand your frustration. I know that the entire state isn’t guzzling the RAT Kool Aid, though. Buck up and gather your like minded friends and neighbors and go proactive.
Remember that on 19 April 1775, only 30% of the population of colonial America supported casting out British rule.
You are correct, and I do not think it ever got much above that before Yorktown. Our problem today, is that people are allowed to vote, even though they are being bribed by the Federal Government to vote Left.
Probably even more dangerous than the growing army of bought voters, however, are those business leaders who have been able to smother anything that suggests courageous behavior among a large number of the so-called Republican leadership. While some of the wealthiest leaders of Colonial America, were quite willing to temporarily suspend normal Governmental services, while risking their very "lives, fortunes & sacred honor," for principles now being betrayed; those who have benefited the most from the free society they protected by their valor, are hell-bent on crushing those who would stand like men to protect it today.
This is insanity. It parallels the stupidity of some businessmen in the days of the New Deal in America & of Germany in the 1930s, where useful idiots embraced FDR, here, and Hitler, there, as necessary to protect us from Communism. The idea that the acceptance of a partial corruption of your institutions is essential to protect what is left is logically untenable for a great many reasons, if your institutions were in fact viable.
William Flax
Properly framed:
We need to differentiate to the conservative side from the Democratic Party,
NOT mimic them like you do, Senator Cornyn.
Did I say fractional?
I meant Factional. That would get him properly binned as the left-of-McCain-lib that he is. ;-)
Either way...sounds brutally fitting! lol
From my home page:
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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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“of a few bedrock principles”
Thought provoking.
Key is defining those bedrock principles.
You know what I think? Those who are true American patriots are those with bedrock principles. They try always to do what is best for our country.
There are some libs I admire because I believe in my heart they are patriots.
Joe Lieberman comes to mind.
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