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.
“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.
Properly framed:
We need to differentiate to the conservative side from the Democratic Party,
NOT mimic them like you do, Senator Cornyn.
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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