[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[rstrahan]

Just another typical Texas campaign.

[Vigilanteman]

For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career, as the 68-year-old businessman poured $5 million of his own money into his second losing race against the Tea Party in Texas – the first having cost him $20 million to lose the Senate race in a haze of negative campaigning against another upstart underdog named Ted Cruz. Some campaign strategists in Texas really need to go back to the drawing board.

. . . or Dewhurst could just move to Vermont.

[NFHale]

They just DON’T get it.

There’d be no daylight between the Tea Party and the “established candidates” if those candidates would DO THE JOB they were elected to do.

Represent the people properly, with due diligence, oppose the other side properly, with due diligence, and push back with OUR agenda as hard and forcefully as the other side does.

It’s NOT a real difficult equation to understand...

Glad you Texans are getting it right. God Bless Texas.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Many of us simple folk out here in flyover country were under the impression that private medical records are private, at least until ObamaCare is fully up and running.

And then they will be available to practically any nosy bureaucrat.

[JRandomFreeper]

Perhaps one day we’ll have a relatively calm, statesmanlike contest

Not in Texas. Politics is a full contact sport. At least no-one got shot or hanged in this election.

/johnny

[cpdiii]

“For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career,”

Capt. Kirk: “How is Dewhurst doing in sick bay?”

Bones: “He is not pining for the fjords, he is not resting, he is bereft of life, he is no more, he has shuffled off this mortal coil, he is F ing dead.

Capt. Kirk: “What!”

Bones: “He is dead Jim.”

[GeronL]

So when does Patterson go to jail?

[SeaHawkFan]

DallasMorning News endorsement = Kiss of Death

Ted Cruz endorsement = victory.

[a fool in paradise]

For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career, as the 68-year-old businessman poured $5 million of his own money into his second losing race against the Tea Party in Texas – the first having cost him $20 million to lose the Senate race in a haze of negative campaigning against another upstart underdog named Ted Cruz. Some campaign strategists in Texas really need to go back to the drawing board.

For the record, Dan Patrick supported David Dewhurst in that Senate campaign and was against Ted Cruz.

Dan can be a fairweather nannystater.

I wouldn't call Dan Patrick a "tea party" star.