Posted on 05/01/2012 11:10:47 AM PDT by pogo101
He is the only reason I am voting in the Texas Primary since Texan’s opinions don’t matter on who we nominate to face off with the one come November.
Dewhurst is really just a reflagged Tory Democrat. Of course, so is Rick Perry, but he doesn’t have a private fortune to use to buy him an office.
Kay Bailey is a liberal Republican, like GHW Bush. which means that Dewhurst is to the right of Hutchison and to the left of Perry and Judge Cornyn. Cruz is a Conservative. Leppert is a Romney-type flip-flopper. Then there is whazisname, the Jock who ruined the Texas Tech football program. No thanks.
I appreciate the post from NR. Thanks.
Thanfully, DeMint and Rand Paul got this one right and are saying so.
Dewhurst is not a cup of TEA by such a long shot. Cruz may be if he is all his record says he is. It’s stellar.
I hear the negative ads are rampant in Houston against him and causing some confusion, so it’s good that National Review cuts to the chase of those false ads, so simply, and puts them to bed nicely.
Dewhurst is framing Cruz. It was Cruz’s colleagues who were known to give to democrats running. Cruz did not.
Typical shell game. “Look over here.” “No, look over here.”
“Now, look over there.”
We’re with you Cruz
Thank you! I just had a friend asking me yesterday about it and I couldn’t give her a good answer! Will pass this along.
David Dewhurst is a genuinely nice guy, and Texas could do worse in electing a Senator. But.. He is more like the fellow on the school board looking for consensus and trims around the edges of a project, so that he can later boast that he reduced the cost of the new football stadium from $60 to $40 million. A true conservative would attack the premise that the school district really needed another football stadium with only 4 high schools even if all of the drill teams could not perform on those Friday nights.
Cruz has the is a “high-motor” constitutional scholar with the gift to articulate an unapologetic vision of constitutional individual liberty and the responsibility that such freedom brings.
That said, Dewhurst would be ok.
We have a Cruz sign in our front yard, and are certainly supporting him!
I mean no disrespect to David Dewhurst. I sense he is what you say, a careful, “around the edges” conservative. With someone as (more-) conservative, well-spoken and smart as Cruz running, though, there is no reason to seemingly “play it safe” with Dewhurst in the primary.
National Review has been giving Cruz positive coverage for a while now; not really shocking to see them endorse him. However, that endorsement, like just about every endorsement made in this campaign regardless of whom endorsed whom, means little to the outcome on May 29th.
That said, Dewhurst would be ok.”
I strongly disagree with you. Texas has not had a Conservative Senator for a good long while. We finally have a chance to get rid of Kay Bailey and one of the RINO’s by electing Cruz. He does have a long uphill battle though because Dewhurst has all the Austin money and power behind him. Most of the negative criticism on Cruz can be traced directly to the Dewhurst camp. Dewhurst is also responsible for Strauss being head of the Senate and we know how well that worked out. Dewhurst and his machine needs to be out of Texas politics. We need to elect Cruz this time and then get rid of Cornyn in 2014.
I’d LOVE to ask the editors of NR..Hey you got this one right..but how come you screwed up in endorsing Romney early on? What’s the difference between Mitt and Dewhurst?
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The RINO virus infection is nearly complete. It will be terminal for the Republican Party if they keep attacking Real Americans/Conservatives like this.
Bury the rotten corpse next to the Whigs and may the Tea Party piss on its grave.
I’m 100% for Cruz. I’ve given his campaign money and also to the DeMint PAC. Just saying that if he fails to get the Republican nomination, I would not feel like taking a long bath after voting for Dewhurst in the fall. He would be a lot better than KBH.
Absolutely. The guy is a self-centered blow-hard, and the less qualified man on the ballot.
THAT is a very good question! They have fallen to bending our minds on their endorsements. Seems they dream about the real thing, and then turn around and select expediency, like everyone else, when it affects their DC pals, the beltway media rankings and their own bottom line. They just all do it for a living.
Lots off runoffs this year.
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