They claim to be conservative, they lie.
DAMMIT TEXAS FREEPERS- WHERE WERE YOU?
COUNT THE VOTES - you will see how FEW people voted in the primary
Your votes and effort could have made a loust 9% difference
Me too.
The take away from this is after spending millions against ineffective competition, Cornyn was held to within 10 points of having to go to a run-off.
Certainly it wasn't the blow out that the GOP-E and the media was predicting.
/johnny
There was no serious alternative to Cornyn. Stockman and Stovall may as well have been fictitious characters made up in our own minds for all they were worth. And that should not surprise anyone who had any clue. Anybody thinking that either of those clowns was going to force Cornyn into a runoff was deluding themselves.
The Tea Party is a great idea but it has to get serious or be disregarded. Money, organization, media....and there was little to none of that this go around. I think on Stockman’s part this was largely just a money generating operation. These are politicians after all, never forget that regardless of the letter after their name. Sobriety is needed. Seriously.
Who one the nomination for Stockman’s old congressional seat?
In my opinion Stockman threw the race.
I feel like we’ve been had. The RNC seems to have implemented a new strategy in protecting their incumbents during primaries. Get a Tea Party backed candidate to run to pull just enough votes away from anyone else that might get traction, but have them purposely not try to win.
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...
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.
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.
Overall I’m a bit disappointed but not dejected. Cornyn escaped but the rest of the ballot wasn’t too bad. Dewhurst is in trouble, the Cruz judicial slate won, the rest of the statewide runoffs offer decent choices. I’m aggravated that Geo Pee coasted into his first political job.
Joe Straus kept his seat but maybe is losing his grip on the Speakership. Several of his House supporters retired and four others - Ratliff, Brown, Gooden and Patrick - got thrown out. Maybe that scares enough of the rest that they will quake in fear of the voter rather than of Straus and we can replace him.
I’m pretty happy with my county and local results.
All in all not bad as elections go. On to the next fight.
The bottomline here is that good candidates win and bad candidates lose and ideaology often plays 2nd fiddle.
That is how Mary Landrieu wins in Louisiana and Susan Collins wins in Maine.
The situation in America isn’t going to be fixed via elections.
That is all.
While Conservatives BEYOND Texas wanted Conservatives in Texas to mount a viable challenge to Cornyn, Conservatives in Texas did not.
Why? Too often in politics too many people get in early and strong on being merely “against” someone else, and those who really are also “against” that someone else think they have found their champion(s). But, merely being against the other guy is not enough, and Conservatives need to want to see MORE than that from and about a candidate. Stockman got his jump into the campaign merely because they was a base of anti-Cornyn voters waiting for an anti-Cornyn candidate. Then his campaign demonstrated he was offering little else (or did not demonstrate well enough he was offering more than a mere anti-Conrnyn position).
As much as I have to hold my nose and vote I will vote for a Republican over a third party candidate because getting Harry Reid taken out as Senate Majority leader is more important.
Under the new Senate rules the liberals are packing the courts and agencies. The ONLY way to lessen that is to remove Democrat party control of the Senate.
I have invested in principled conservatives and will continue to do so but I want control of the senate more than falling on a sword.
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.”
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.