Then can you tell me why so many FReepers jumped on his bandwagon so early? I’ve been trying to tell folks about Stockman for the past 3 or 4 months since I’ve been here on FR, but it has, for the most part, fallen on deaf ears.
He was first, and had a big name, and they want to get rid of Cornyn — enough that a good number of them would rather have a democrat win.
If you are willing to let a liberal take over the seat just to get rid of Cornyn, why would you care a slightly less conservative republican took it, so long as that republican isn’t considered “establishment”.
That is the fight many want to pick, against the “establishment”, which has little to do with conservative voting records, and instead is about who has the power in the republican party.
Which is why they are targeting some senators and congressman who have higher ratings than others that have lower ratings, mostly because those they are targeting are in leadership positions and those they are not do not hold leadership positions.
I just hope this doesn’t turn out to be the 3rd cycle in which we fail to take the senate because we spend all our energy getting rid of republicans we don’t like. We have a few dozen horrible judges now because of the last two elections — we were of course told not to worry, because we’d have the filibuster, but now we don’t have that and all the extra conservatives don’t help a bit when you are in the minority.