Posted on 12/21/2022 1:27:48 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn will not be up for re-election until 2026. We asked where would readers stand on his re-election if that GOP primary were to be held today. More than 97 percent of readers selected “Cornyn has to go,” while just 2.8 percent want to “re-elect Cornyn.”
Here’s a sampling from the avalanche of replies…
“John Cornyn is a great argument for repealing the 17th Amendment. Or putting in place term limits.” – Tom Bartel
“Nearly 6,000 GOP delegates booed Cornyn at the last state convention. Cornyn’s reply in the newspaper to this was, ‘I don’t bow to the mob.’ He called his own delegation a ‘mob.’ He clearly doesn’t care what Texans want. He needs to be censored by the GOP immediately. Cornyn definitely has to go.” – Kristen McCarty
“I haven't been a fan of John Phony Crony, since he stabbed Ted Cruz in the back, in 2013, over Obamacare. I stopped voting for him after that, and have been warning people against him ever since! He sold his soul to the D.C. swamp.” – Sonya Allison
“Who does he purport to represent any way? It sure isn't Texans!” – Jay Westfall
“I don’t know how he got re-elected last time! He votes with the Democrats at least 80% of the time!” – Doreen Cardenas
“In the past, Senator Cornyn has served the state of Texas honorably and well. However, the immigration situation is completely out of hand, and is indeed an invasion to our great state! As such, if that is truly what he believes, then a more forceful voice needs to be elected.” – Phyllis N. Peek
“Cornyn may don the garb of a conservative citizen, but by word and deed, he is a liberal socialist to the bone and has been for many years.” – Jan LeBlanc
“I have said this many times: John Cornyn only comes around when he’s up for re-election. He is no friend of Texas or its constituents. We need to encourage someone like Ronny Jackson, Chip Roy, or even Louie Gohmert to primary him.” – Landon Capozzi
“Sadly, like all too many politicians with an R by their name, Cornyn has essentially turned his back on his constituents.” – Ellen Leyrer
“John Cornyn is just as bad as Mitch McConnell. Why we still allow them to call themselves Republicans is beyond me! We have got to get those two OUT of the Republican Party and out of office.” – Dara Richardson
“Your survey question is meaningless. Who might be running against him? As bad as it is, to label the present situation as an invasion is simply a play on words even though it is descriptive of what is happening. It is also a humanitarian crisis of the highest magnitude and it needs to stop. But for me or anyone else to say that Cornyn must go simply based upon his verbalized assessment is a bit foolish.” – Norman Turner
“I've been voting against Cornyn since 2014!” – Ann Pavalock
“John Cornyn is not a fighter for Texas at all, but rather a politician who has lost the reason he went to DC.” – Betsy Lehnert
“I answered, ‘Cornyn has to go.’ I tell you, I have friends who think Cornyn is great. Those friends are full-blown Democrats so... What does that tell you about Cornyn?” – Ray Holloway
“I will not vote for Cornyn if his is the only name on the ballot.” – Kathryn Martin
“He is Texas’ RINO, one step behind McConnell and gets more like him on most critical issues.’ – John Booth
“John Cornyn pays no heed whatsoever to his constituents and their wishes. He doesn’t even pretend to do so. He is a perfect example of a swamp creature overlord who expects compliance and even gratitude. I am disgusted with him. Should he run again, I will campaign for anyone who primaries him.” – Vikie Schwartz
“Anyone who doesn't recognize Cornyn as a huge part of the problem is also part of the problem.” – Norman Planer
“Cornyn has become another two faced politician! TERM LIMITS, PEOPLE!” – Lynn Tannehill
“I've been an ‘anyone but Cornyn’ voter since the end of his first term in Washington. He has RINO written on his forehead!” – O. Machelle Morris
“I have written someone in every time to avoid voting for Cornyn.” – Kevin Bowden
“I did not vote for Cornyn in the last election. To fix this problem the Republican Party of Texas needs to choose a true Republican and not McConnell's Siamese twin!” – John R. Makow
“I haven't voted for Cornyn in the last two senate election cycles. He's a RINO and needs to be primaried.” – Camille Adams
“Cornyn is worse than a RINO. He is a traitor, IMO. He does NOT support the values of the people of Texas. And, it would appear that he does not support the values of the American Constitution or the American people either.” – Mary E. Duval
I met Cornyn at the 2002 Texas Republican Convention before he was elected to his first term. My first impression was that he was a sleezeball. My impression turned out to be more than correct.
Tea Parties across Texas tried to get rid of Cornyn in the 2014 election. We were able to get his vote in the primary down to 59% but he was reelected by low information voters.
Low info voters.......
Well a lot of people are occupied by many other things and
pulling the lever on a voting machine is a few minute process.
That’s if the decide to vote at all. Lots still don’t vote.
He’ll win again. No one has the money to go against him. Depressing.
Cornyn’s MO is that he will start buying advertising starting in September of 2023.
Once an hour on every conservative radio station in Texas.
In January of 2024 it will be updated to 4 times an hour.
Waste of time article. They should be talking about potential people to defeat him rather than fake polls of their own readers.
I was really hopeful that Dwayne Stovall, a real conservative, would defeat Cornyn in 2020 in the primary, but he only came in a very distant second at 11%. Why are Texas voters so stupid?
https://ballotpedia.org/John_Cornyn
In 2020, Cornyn won his Republican primary with 76 percent of the vote. He won the general with 53.5 percent of the vote, beating his Democrat challenger by almost 10 points.
The story is similar with Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
He’s Charlie Brown and Lucy rolled into one pathogen.
That, and he will start acting like a conservative about a year out from election day, and most voters will forget all the damage he has done voting with democrats.
That, and he will start acting like a conservative about a year out from election day, and most voters will forget all the damage he has done voting with democrats.
The problem is no one will run against him. Who has the money? Who has the background? If it is Dem against Rep, Cornyn will continue to win. We haven’t had a credible opponent in decades. This is how RINO’s continue to get elected when they are so disliked. If Texas had a “Blake from AZ” or what’s her name in Alaska, they would easily be elected. Nobody likes Cornyn, but we don’t want a Dem.
John “Wayne” Cornyn rides into TX every six years with a Texas drawl gets reelected and goes back to his DC upper class life. F’em.
Mitch is despised. I doubt he’d get back in.
Cornyn has done enough for me in Texas. Our HUGE PROBLEM is that we have our own Deep State and they CRIPPLE our State House, despite HUGE Republican majorities, at least in the past.
Even if Reagan were in the Governor’s Mansion, he’d be hard-pressed to get more done than Cornyn.
“If the election were held today ...”
Incumbents still get reelected a high percentage of the time.
Incumbents know this. They also know voters seem to have short memories.
Since it’s close to impossible to eliminate the 17th amendment state legislatures should start looking at ways to remove their undesirable US senators. Here’s one method: A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official’s term of office has ended. It would be nice to recall one of our state’s senators, Mitch McConnell.
In 2026. Lol. Good grief.
Why? He’s not up until 2026.
Mitch McConnell isn’t going to get reelected because he ain’t going to run again. Between now and 2026 the turtle will be spending a lot of effort grooming his replacement. People here in Kentucky need to reject anyone the turtle endorses.
Cornyn has been selling out Texas and the Country since taking office.
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