Posted on 03/05/2014 5:36:24 AM PST by Nextrush
With some 99 perecent plus of the vote in, John Cornyn picked up 59 percent of it to avoid a runoff.
Steve Stockman was second with 19 percent, Dwayne Stovall third at 11 percent.
That's a hard result for me to take. With his cloture vote last month to increase the nation's debt ceiling (credit card limit) Cornyn moved the United States closer to its eventual financial ruin.
Some felt the race was a bit rigged with Stockman running a crazy and ineffective challenge. I supported Stockman noting his willingness to not vote for John Boehner as Speaker along with 11 other GOP House members at the beginning of the current session.
Its worth noting that big names like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Sarah Palin stayed out of this fight. Perhaps they knew something I didn't about the contest.
Business as usual Republican Congressman Pete Sessions beat Katrina Pierson 64-36 percent, another disappointment.
One bright spot on the ballot was the first place finish for Lieutenant Governor with State Senator Dan Patrick coming in over 41 percent to incumbent David Dewhurst's 28 percent.
Ted Cruz roughed up Dewhurst in the Senate primary two years ago and it looks like Patrick is in a good position to take him out for good in the runoff.
Attorney General Greg Abbott easily won in the first round with 95 percent of the vote to be the Republican candidate for governor.
He will face the famous-infamous Democrat Wendy Davis in the fall.
I think one of the big reasons the GOPe political machine can win elections is their ability to fool grassroots voters like the game Cornyn played last month voting for the higher debt ceiling on the cloture vote then against it on final passage (ala John Kerry on Iraq).
Pro-Life voters have been misled in the big way and Pro-Abortion ones for that matter over the legislation Texas passed last year regarding abortion.
A poster here on FR pointed out and I confirmed it with my own check of the law's actual wording that the media and Pro-Abortion activists "twenty week ban" is symbolic and not firm. The Republicans are fooling Pro-Life voters with a fake 20-week ban in the bill.
The actual wording of Bill 2:
'IN THE UNEXPECTED EVENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THIS STATUTE IS FOUND TO IMPOSE AN IMPERMISSIBLE UNDUE BURDEN ON ANY PREGNANT WOMAN OR GROUP OF PREGNANT WOMEN, THE APPLICATION OF THE STATUTE TO THOSE WOMEN SHALL BE SEVERED FROM THE REMAINING APPLICATIONS OF THE STATUTE THAT DO NOT IMPOSE AN UNDUE BURDEN'
The legal wording translates to the law not applying to any pregnant woman who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, wants to get an abortion and claims the law imposes an 'undue burden' on her.
I guess the GOP and Democrat political machines prefer to use the drama they generate over this bill to raise money and fool their grassroots supporters for the election.
(DO OTHER 20 WEEK 'ABORTION BAN' BILLS IN OTHER STATES CONTAIN THIS NULLIFYING CLAUSE????)
Some think the abortion clinic regulations in the bill are good because at least one clinic shut down in the state because of it.
But I have a different take. Abortion clinics run by small time operators are forced to shut down while ones run by the big time operator, Planned Parenthood, get to stay open.
There are many big money contributors to both parties including the GOP who bristle at the notion of Roe versus Wade being overturned and who support Planned Parenthood.
In the end, abortion clinic regulation in Texas and everywhere else ostensibly passed as Pro-Life legislation ends up being Pro-Abortion legislation keeping the big abortion operator in business (Planned Parenthood).
So much of politics is that way with a large business using regulation of its kind of business by government as a way to take out its smaller competitors.
My contention remains that 95 PERCENT OF REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS EITHER FAKE CONSERVATISM OR REPUDIATE IT.
In Texas that may be 90 percent of GOP elected office holders, but that's 90 percent too many.
/johnny
Time to rally behind the party’s nominee!
JUST LIKE Crist supported Rubio, Specter supported Toomey, Castle supported O’Donnell, Murkowski supported Miller, Bolling supported Cuccinelli, John Warner supports Gillespie and on and on. ;-)
Yeah, he won’t be getting any votes in this household either.
The LaRouche candidate may be a strategic option as the one most easily picked off the next time for a one and done. Replacing GOPe leadership is almost that important that I may consider this.
somewon did....don’t no hu
Actually... come to think of it... The RNC been doing the same thing in presidential primaries... have their preferred RINO candidate run HARD against any conservatives on the ballot, get one or more real conservatives to run but only half heartedly. If any of them start to get traction, have the self destruct on purpose. Once the nomination is secure, have the RINO back away from the race and let the Democrat win.
Both McCain and Romney did this. Only really tried in the primary, while basically intentionally throwing the race against Obama without even putting up a fight.
/johnny
“And yet Cornyn had to spend millions in media buys to squeak by with barely 9% saving him from a run-off election.
/johnny “
Johnny, really, I’m telling you as a fellow conservative and Freeper......wake up and stop this garbage.
Cornyn had, what, 7 or 8 Primary opponents and still rolled with 59% of the vote. That is monster. He had the money, the media, and, the machine. And a whole bunch of our fellow Texans, friends and neighbors, were perfectly fine with him going back to the Senate.
Cornyn spent millions? Okay. He had the millions to spend. His collective opponents did not and there’s a reason for that. No one believed in investing in them. They weren’t serious and people saw that. And, no one seemed to care either. As much as we like Cruz around here even he wouldn’t risk endorsing any opponent because he recognized that too.
People, stop fooling yourselves and wake up. Wishing and hoping don’t make it true.
Well Cornyn won this round, but he doesn’t have to win the next round with a third party or maybe write-in and conservatives should send a message that there will be NO VOTES FOR RINO’s.
What did you want me to do? Curl up and cry? Give up before trying?
Cornyn didn't do as well as predicted even with all his money. He wasted money on the primary fight that won't be going to other liberal republicans.
I don't expect to win every battle. I do expect to fight every fight.
/johnny
I’m probably not going to vote for Cornhole in November, but I sure don’t want a c0*k $ucking Democrat in my Senate seat...
If Cornyn wins in November, we'll have one. With an (R) behind his name.
/johnny
I'm guessing that the voters of TX did not find Cornyn all that "liberal" or all that RINO-ish, and instead probably think the battle ought to be against Dems. But I'm just guessing.
Don’t forget that Jorge P. “Border Patrol is racist” Bush won his primary, launching the next generation of compassionate faux conservatives.
Indeed. Just look for the number of people who spout phrases lik, “Hold your nose and vote”, “Just win” or “Conservative in the primary, GOP in the general”. This is why we can’t have nice things.
What’s going to happen is that nothing will change.
The RINO’s will gang up and destroy conservative organizations and candidates and outright felony election fraud to keep power, then engage in fratricide among their own ranks. Meanwhile, the traitorous scum on the left will commit felony election fraud using there much higher skill set.
When 25% of the population doesn’t know the Earth orbits the Sun, when a significant number of ‘educated’ people can’t find the US on a map. When a large part of the electorate doesn’t even know the basics of how the Constitution says the government is supposed to work....
THIS COUNTRY IS TOAST.
If you’re educated and smart enough and live in an urban or suburban setting. FLEE.
Reading all of the blogs, etc. I suspect if all of the people who deserve to be saved gathered in one spot, you could buy a dozen donuts for the group and there would be a few left over.
2014 Primary Results:
Cornhole 778,912
Not Cornhole 531,351
Primary Results Comparison:
Cornhole 2008: 994,222
Cornhole 2014: 778,912
Voters Lost by Cornhole in 2014 vs 2008: 215,310
Cornhole Lost 21.7% of his previous primary voters
He only won the primary by 9%
4.5% change to another would have swung it
Does anyone here have VOTE TALLY? (actual numbers)
/johnny
/johnny
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