Congratulations, Sherlock. Another baffling mystery solved.
I thought a reprobate was when you got money back at Kinko’s.
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Well, there is that.
I agree that Ted Cruz ran for Senate in order to run for President.
What I don’t see is how being a really shitty Senator helps him achieve that ultimate goal.
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When God speaks through your wife, well, you gotta run. 'Cause you are going to win because you are following the word and your divine calling.
Well, no shit Sherlock!
I think the establishment TX GOP was gobsmacked - Dewhurst was going to win because it was his turn, dammit, he was next in line and Cruz cut.
Cruz does his homework and knew Dewhurst was vulnerable. He did not come across as such a religious nut - well he did to some of us - but that’s the kind of crap every TX republican spouts to get elected from school board candidates to Senators.
A Texas senator? You know how much they’re worth.
Republican conservative voters, meet the beltway establishment — the true source of all your problems.
Has Cornyn stopped immigration? No. Has he stopped abortion? No. Has he stopped Obamacare? No. Has he lowered your taxes one dime? No.
Republicans, please, please, please. For God’s sake and yours, your Congressional representatives are failing you. Vote the bums out!
He is still employed, but his employer cut his hours back because of Obamacare.
OK, I live in one of the few Democratic districts in Texas. IMPO Cruz won the primary simply because the Teahadists turned out more voters than the establishment Republicans did. I think that they were quite simply too damn lazy to vote in any numbers in the primary. Just as in the Nov election like you say, we now have a wack a doodle lt gov, who is so far to the right of rushbo he is falling off the cliff. Plus the AG under indictment along with a really crazy teahadist Gov who either pandered to the fuking weirdos in the state, or really believed that the Army Spec Ops summer training was the feds getting ready to take over everything, stuff prisoners into jails built under closed walmarts
Then an Agriculture head who goes in for petty thievery plus the land commissioner who is none other than a 3rd gen Bush who goes in really big time for handing out very high paying(no show) jobs to college friends, while firing the very people needed to run the agency for the state. Instead he is busy cutting the funds that the previous head of the agency got for the state.
and Seriously, some asshats want Texas to secede. Just imagine, every federal base would close. All federal employees-like the Air Traffic controllers, Border Patrol, the weather stations and their forecasts, DEA,Medicade(not sure about Medicare, does that work in other countries?) I am sure that others could come up with more. So the new country of Texas would need to come up with all kinds of people to fill jobs the feds used to do. And since Texans hate to pay for govt stuff-the state lege is always trying to cut taxes(next lege in 17 should really be good as the LtGov wants to cut still more taxes, but the oil isn’t doing so hot, get out the popcorn as the Texas Teahadists discover that they actually have to pay for the services they want. rather than using all that erl money like in previous years) I do not think that business would stand for something that stupid
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He could go into political consulting with “Hot Tub Tom” Delay, “Ducky Jammies” Blake Farenthold, and Steve “Bitcoin” Stockman. They could call their venture Pendejo Enterprises.
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Only sane car on the GOP crazy train.
Cornyn should like Cruz. With Cruz, Cornyn is not the most despised asshole in the Senate, he’s only the second most despised asshole.
No…he is going to have to use it to protect Abbot against Cruz in a gubernatorial race. THAT’S the real goal that Cruz has been eyeing for a long time now. This was just to boost his exposure, train up his campaign staff and hey…if he won it, great.
But a loss means sticking to the original plan…1 term in the Senate and then a run at governor.
This diss from Johnny Cornyn was unnecessary. Since John is also from Texas it is the political equivalent of a kick in Ted’s cojones.
Also Johnny Cornyn should know better and make claims that are provable. If C-Section Born Ted Cruz came to the Senate to become President, he would have given up his Canadian citizenship before running for Senate.
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Cornyn is not even in my top ten. Sure, I strongly dislike the guy and disagree with him on pretty much everything. But with people like McConnell, Grassley, Cruz, Inhofe, Sessions, Earnst, Vitter, and Cotton in there, how is a guy supposed to compete with that?
PS. I went through the list of sitting senators to make sure I didn’t miss any of the truly aweful ones, and I realized there are a couple of Senators I have never heard of. I mean, who the hell is Steve Daines, or Gary Peters? Being a political junky, the fact that I have never heard of them means they are either good at their job and avoid stupidity, or they are terrible and never show up. Having never heard of them, I can’t gauge.
Wonder how he’ll feel when he finds out God likes to just screw with him. He didn’t really mean it.
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