This Texan would like to know how you base that assertion.
Simple. Dubya would’ve strongly urged the TX legislature to help his good friend Rove for helping him (much like how McKinley urged the OH leg to send his campaign manager Mark Hanna to the Senate). As for DewCrist, he strong-armed the legislators into supporting him in the Senate race. If the people had not been the deciders, Cruz would’ve never been anywhere near the Senate. Let’s face it, you guys can’t even sack a liberal RINO House Speaker (Straus), and you think you’d be sending Cruz types ? It would be exactly the same, with RINOs and Democrats joining forces over Tea Partiers. Bad idea.