[a fool in paradise]

For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career, as the 68-year-old businessman poured $5 million of his own money into his second losing race against the Tea Party in Texas – the first having cost him $20 million to lose the Senate race in a haze of negative campaigning against another upstart underdog named Ted Cruz. Some campaign strategists in Texas really need to go back to the drawing board.

For the record, Dan Patrick supported David Dewhurst in that Senate campaign and was against Ted Cruz.

Dan can be a fairweather nannystater.

I wouldn't call Dan Patrick a "tea party" star.

[JRandomFreeper]

I wouldn't call Dan Patrick a "tea party" star.

Nope, he's certainly no conservative hero. The benefits to Patrick are that he doesn't have Dewhurst's democrat machine behind him, he's talked about getting rid of the 2/3ds rule, and he's talked about not appointing democrats as chairmen in the Senate.

If he actually does those things, he will have done good deeds. If he doesn't, he needs to go away next time.

/johnny