Posted on 12/12/2013 6:35:29 AM PST by thetallguy24
So Steve Stockman is running for Senate. It’s all over Twitter, it might be all over Facebook depending on what kind of friends you have, and it’s the talk of this town (if you know what I mean). Initial coverage has suggested that the stand-off — between Representative Stockman, the East Texas far-far-right conservative, and Senator John Cornyn, an incumbent whose votes have rankled some Texas tea-party activists — will be another chapter in the nigh-unending saga of tea-party insurrectionists versus the Big Bad Establishment. But it’s actually much more complicated than that.
For one thing, it’s hard to imagine the race being much of a contest. Stockman has just $32,000 cash on hand per his latest filings (and $163,000 in debt). And he’s been beleaguered by allegations of ethics violations since entering office. Plus, with the primary set for March 4, he has less than three months to pull off a statewide victory — or, at least, to win enough votes to send the race to a runoff. So his odds are, uh, less than great.
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Biased much.
Agree with both of you. Cornyn is a major part of the problem with the Senate GOP, today. As such, he has demonstrated beyond a doubt that he needs to be fired.
He has, indeed.
| John Cornyn claims to be the 2nd most conservative member of the Senate. Yet, as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee he hand-selected these "Republican" candidates:
he FAILED and hid behind a meaningless vote later. |
Cornyn is every bit as much of a dirty political infighter as the Chicago Gangsta Thug in Washington. He needs to be flushed out of office. And a small budget campaign won’t do it.
Cornyn has the power of the RINO establishment behind him as well as the megabucks of the crony capitalists who are ruining America.
This has nothing to do with whether Cornyn or Stockman will be better. If the accusations against Stockman are true, then both Cornyn AND Stockman need to go.
I, for one, am tired of trading tyrants.
Agreed, sir.
My purpose was only to show that Stockman’s problems are not manufactured, and he does himself no service by dancing around outlets that seek to report both sides.
Besides, there are a bunch of newbs here on FR that seem to be attacking him, which is a sign that the establishment is worried.
/johnny
From your mouth to God’s ears. Do you think the RINOs are trolling FreeRepublic?
I have already volunteered to help STEVE STOCKMAN replace Cornyn. I go in knowing full well that we will be facing the same kind of campaign tactics that we saw when we were working to get TED CRUZ through the primary and runoff elections.
The only difference campaign-wise between Cruz and Stockman is that Cruz was campaigning for nearly two years, while Stockman only has 3 months left.
/johnny
Shhhhhh... I know and have supported Stockman since his Dole push against GHWB in”88. I got blasted by others here earlier in the week for saying the same thing.
I'll be going door-to-door supporting Stockman over Cornyn, without any formal association with his campaign.
Cornyn must go.
/johnny
/johnny
Maybe this is a retread of that “TexMex” guy, or whatever its name was.
So based on that so-called “logic,” if you even know what that it is:
RINOs DO support Greg Abbott.
You support Greg Abbott.
Therefore, you’re a RINO.
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