Black Elk, your last few post are imaginative, to say the least. But they don’t follow any logical line.
Synchro, Dewhurst is neither an “incumbent” nor an elite. He’s just worked hard to prove the Amrican system works.
David Dewhurst put himself through college, playing basketball. His father was killed when he was 3, his mother worked afterward, but he didn’t inherit or benefit from family money. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for the CIA. *Then* he became a businessman and built that fortune from scratch. In his 50’s, he ran for Land Commissioner, then Lt, Governor.
I wish Cruz had taken a few years in business. Mostly, I wish he had run on his merits, rather than going abrasive and negative last fall. If he wins, I hope my original expectations are true.
Sorry the records of both cause me to lean towards Cruz as the better candidate.
Electing Dewhurst would have a negative effect on the State of Texas.
Sorry, change incumbent to highly connected moderate GOP operative.
If we are going to go there, Cruz's father was in prison in Cuba as a young man, beaten and tortured before he escaped and came to America.
If Dewhurst wins, my expectations will, unfortunately, be realized.
He may not be an "elite", but his GOPe is pretty loud.