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.
Yeah, no one says these guys don’t lie. But part of a campaign is devising effective ads that can counter.
I know, I may not vote
True, but money to play the ads non-stop is also a factor. Best I can hope for now is that cornball at least tries to match his rhetoric.
Texas voted for yet another Bush?
Gezzz..
Blame it on all the California liberals who migrated there.
It certainly appears that way. Stockman was Cornyn's stalking horse, either by design or ineptitude.
Pro-Lifers Shut Out of CPAC Panels
“Pro-life leaders have noticed that not a single panel or specific speaker on life issues has been scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is supposed to be the preeminent annual gathering of conservatives in America.”
FINOs here? Who knew?
All you Party boys and GOPE gang, we conservatives got your back in November. Don’t worry we support your candidates the same way you all have always supported conservatives. We will give the same effort you all have always given us...
Math is sure hard!
- Barbie
I voted for and will be supporting Brian Babin in the runoff. FWIW, he is the father of a Navy Seal who is married to FOX News' Jenna Lee.
41% and 36% are pretty good with no money.
Dan Patrick bashed his opponents on tuition and the border. This was also punishment of Rick Perry’s amnesty legacy. Maybe give Mitt Romney 1% of credit for starting the Rick Perry and Dewhurst bashing in 2011.
I think some of the Republican candidates in other states would be better to bash the establishment guy on amnesty and mass immigration; rather than Obamacare and the Debt.
Harry Reid and Obama will still be able to stop able to stop a lot of GOP bills regarding Obamacare in 2015 but there will be smooth passage of any amnesty bill.
Id almost keep Dewhurst as a trade to keep Bush away.
How did LePage win? Was the system rigged against him?
Mary has only faced ex-Democrats gaining 52% of the vote. She goes to a runoff.
It is good we have Vitter and not some open borders RINO who can buy a primary.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Important stuff and Dan Patrick, who comes from the radio world as a talk host, radio station owner in Texas and State Senator understands the grassroots better than the established GOPe politicians.
Patrick lead the GOP pack for Lieutenant Governor on a different track calling illegal immigration an “invasion” making the party insiders mad.
Maybe he and George P. Bush (won Land Commissioner primary) will face off in the future to settle this matter in a GOP primary/
Yes . . . on votes that COUNT. This is always the issues with RINOS-—they are clever to vote “right” on stuff that doesn’t matter, but manage to vote wrong on the votes that count.
The Texas media are being concern trolls. They think he might alienate 20% of Texas who wants to keep tuition for illegals.
Agreed. Dewhurst won't go higher. This is the first stepping stone for Bush. He'll run for state Attorney General next, followed by Governor or Senator.
Careful, that kind of rational thinking on a rant thread like this will get you labeled as a shill for the GOP-E. The truth is Cornyn has one of the most conservative voting records in the senate, but he has pissed a lot of us off with certain votes. He also broke Reagan's 11th commandment in the most egregious way possible when he harshly criticized his fellow republican from Texas for standing up against the democrats. That was why I voted against him on principle in the primary, but his overall record is why I will definitely vote AGAINST his democrat opponent in the general election and try to ensure that the senate seat he is occupying stays in the GOP column.
You can’t beat sompthin wit nuthin
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