Simple. Dubya would’ve strongly urged the TX legislature to help his good friend Rove for helping him (much like how McKinley urged the OH leg to send his campaign manager Mark Hanna to the Senate). As for DewCrist, he strong-armed the legislators into supporting him in the Senate race. If the people had not been the deciders, Cruz would’ve never been anywhere near the Senate. Let’s face it, you guys can’t even sack a liberal RINO House Speaker (Straus), and you think you’d be sending Cruz types ? It would be exactly the same, with RINOs and Democrats joining forces over Tea Partiers. Bad idea.
It’s funny, the same people who support having their betters in the state legislator cast their votes for them invariably support those self proclaimed “tea party outsider” or Ron Paul types who would have ZERO CHANCE under that system.