While a huge thrill in combat, the winner-take-all arrangement for Texas overlooks future risk for short term gain and satisfaction.
Consider the changing demographics in Texas. Consider the Establishment keeps financing RINOS, who enter the race with all the odds, all the money and all the support.
Where is Texas in the next election, should the SREC be composed of a minority of conservatives instead of a majority of conservatives? Winner-take-all leaves conservatives without a protest block of delegates to say a RINO.
I am not so quick to buy into the national arguement that 150 delegates gives Texas clout. It may give them heart ache also.
In that case, proportional rules allow for a protest block of delegates who can go all the way to convention.
What happened to the other 5 delegates?