Posted on 02/18/2014 10:14:07 AM PST by Din Maker
First of all, I'm a native Texan and a Ronald Reagan-style Republican. Not a drop of RINO blood in me. And, I want to go on record saying I loathe John Cornyn and I've had high hopes of seeing him defeated in the GOP Primary this year. But, I have some real concerns that Cornyn could win reelection if we blow the March 4th GOP Primary. We could miss a great opportunity like Missouri did by nominating Todd Aikin, who had the IQ of a foot stool, and gave Barack Obama's girlfriend, Claire McCaskill another six years. Are my fears well founded. Well, consider..........
STEVE STOCKMAN: He has been my Congressman both times he served and I am NOT voting for the guy. Why? Because if he makes the Primary Run-off Election, Cornyn and team will pull out all the dirt they've been stockpiling on him, just waiting for the Run-Off Election. The guy has more baggage than an Amtrak Train. Investigated by FEC, filed bankruptcy, lied about his jail time, etc., etc., etc. And I guarantee you, there will be stuff come out that we've never yet heard. The Beaumont (TX) Enterprise has already done two front-page, Sunday edition stories on him: One, his FEC investigations and secondly his absenteeism from House votes. My question is: With all the money Conservatives have sent him, why is there not one Radio or TV ad? All he has for a state-wide campaign is Twitter, e-mail addresses and a seldom-traveled blog. Where is all the campaign money? Why is he not out on the campaign trail? One newspaper called him the "Absentee Candidate". The one, and only, interview I heard him give on Radio Station KLVI during his first Congressional Term, was a telephone interview, and I swear the dude was drunk. If Stockman is in the run-off, he will be our Todd Aikin and Cornyn will get another six years to screw us.
DWAYNE STOVALL: I had high-hopes for Mr. Stovall, but, you know, in this day and age, the Press can crucify you over the silliest things. I wish to goodness he would not have done that "Turtle" Ad. When I saw it, I thought: "Oh no; this will come back to bite him." And sure enough the bad pub is starting to roll off the presses. But, that's nothing compared to the following.
CHRIS MAPP: This is our candidate who said all Mexicans were "wet backs". I read it in the Dallas Morning News after being informed of it, via a Private Message, here on FR. Yeah; that will really play well in a run-off election.
So, all we can do is vote our conscience. I'm probably going to vote for Stovall because I think he has the best chance of getting more votes than Stockman. But, I'm also looking seriously at Linda Vega, Reid Reasor or Ken Cope. And let me say in closing: I'll vote for whomever is Cornyn's run-off opponent and hope for the best.
Meg Whitman
Stockman is going to be the one that makes the runoff if Cornyn is held below 50%.
I know that Cruz won an “open” seat, but David Dewhurst was like an incumbent. He was Lt. Gov. He was an entrenched, well-funded, Establishment Texas RINO.
Stockman is going to be the one that makes the runoff if Cornyn is held below 50%.
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I know that, and he will be our “Todd Aikin”. I’ll be money on it.
Say what you will about Stockman’s loose cannon, but his voting record tells me what I need to know.
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Yeah; when he shows up to vote and is not sleeping off a drunk.
Todd Akin was an excellent Congressman and Conservative, but his sole mistake was an ill-advised comment that violated the Clayton Williams rule (since up until that point, he led McCaskill in the polls by a wide margin). I doubt Stockman will make THAT mistake.
Do you really think that Texas is less likely that Tenn?
Congressman Todd Akin was doing OK until big mouth Willard started stirring up things for him and had the Conservatives eating one of their own..
not because Todd had done anything above a misunderstood statement that really didn’t hurt him that much in the polls till Willard intervened..
but because Todd is a Conservative (which Willard is not and never has been)
and Todd is pro-life (and which Willard is not and never has been)
and Willard was looking out as usual for Old Number One, yeah Willard..(and let the rest of the Republicans and the country go to you-know-where for all Willard could care...)
what Todd Akin said didn’t effect Willard but Willard like any other normal or garden variety Liberal knows that the good offence in a campaign is a crisis and if theres none make one and Willard also knows that sympathy is good for the polls..
so Willard latched a slight comment by Congressman Akin and made it into an international incident by screaming a crying like the girl he is..
Sandra Fluke and Wendy Davis on their worse PMS days could not have causes such a fuss...
and Willard got his crisis and Willard got his sympathy and Willard managed to claw himself into being the “spokesman” and “leader” and “statesman” for the GOP at that moment...
and the shame of it was the Conservatives mostly all fell in line behind him..if that’s possible since Willard is a “lead-from-behind kind of Liberal..
Willard of course got lots of free PR and he wailed on camera on cue and had almost everyone kissing his booboo and agreeing Congressman Akin was the most evil threat to freedom since 9/11..
But every time Willard claimed to speak for me he was lying...(When Willard speaks the thinking’s been done doesn’t work for free Americans)
I didn’t think the same hysterical opportunist liberal way Willard does and although Willard claimed to have a consensus “ALL of the country agree” etc Willard was a cowardly Obama-style liar as usual ...
Needless to say Willard got rid of a real Conservative in MO and did what he set out to do...the GOP didn’t get the Senate..
The enemy of the Conservatives and the Republicans in that instance was Willard Mitt Romney, not William Todd Akin..
Willard caused a crisis where there was none and should never have been one if Willard hadn’t opened his big Liberal trap and caused one..
Willard has done nothing good for the Republicans but beat up on them but the Republicans keep acting like an abused wife..
I want Cornball to lose in the primary.
I’m ok with a Dem winning the general, if that is the price we pay.
I think we are better off without the Dick Lugar’s of the world in the Senate.
No doubt, but, dang, be adult in your ads and attacks. It was childless and tasteless. Why do an Ad that you know the Press will use to distract from the issues? It makes Stovall look juvenile.
I wouldn't call it his sole mistake. Akin had a lot of quotes for McCaskill to call upon - against Social Security, against Medicare, against the minimum wage. As it happened he managed to do himself in before McCaskill had to haul the other quotes out. Akin was a disaster waiting to happen from the moment he got the nomination. That's why McCaskill was so glad to run against him.
I want Cornball to lose in the primary.
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So do I, but that won’t happen if Stockman is in the run-off.
Right, if conservatives fold every time the left gets a point we’re never going to accomplish anything. Nobody’s perfect but we only have to worry about conservative imperfection since the libs are slippier than that turtle in a mud slide when we try to make LEGITIMATE charges stick to them.
Biggest mistake conservatives can make is to acknowledge their drivel, ignore it and move on.
Todd Akin was Claire mcCackle’s choice for an opponent.
In fact, McCackle’s campaign spent more on ads favoring Akin’s candidacy than Akin did.
He was a moron not to figure this out.
My fear is the power and money backing Cornyn that he will still pull this out in the long run, but it could be a bloody battle in the meantime.
Id rather Cornyn lose the runoff and Dems take the seat than Cornyn stay in. RINOs need to learn painful lessons if this nation is to be turned around.
How would those other quotes be “mistakes ?” He’s a Conservative in his votes, not just a talker who turns around and votes for the liberal establishment. It was one thing and one thing only that did in Akin (and same thing for Mourdock in Indiana), and he should’ve been sophisticated enough to know to avoid the topic or state that he is pro-life and keep reiterating the point. If Akin was a “disaster waiting to happen”, he certainly would not have enjoyed a long and successful career in the House. McCaskill took an enormous risk in trying to get Akin to be her opponent, and it just as easily could’ve blown up in her face. The same thing happened a decade ago when backing a certain Kenyan with a name that sounds like terrorists for an Illinois Senate seat (with the thinking that an initially well-regarded Chicago Republican would take him down), and we see how that turned out.
Our opponent knows us better than we know ourselves. She knew our knees would buckle and our bowels become incontinent if they made fun of us. She knew we would switch sides and join in making fun of Aiken rather than be the objects of derision. She knew that if she could throw Aiken of his pace for just an instant, he would never again be a threat to abortion, that we would ship him off to the glue-factory ourselves. She knew we’re cowards.
And how many Establishment candidates (non-incumbent) won in 2012 Senate elections? If we keep on electing “moderate” Republicans like Corker, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Collins, Murkowski, Hatch, Ayotte, Heller, Hoeven, Flake, and Kirk we will no longer have anything approaching a conservative party. Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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