With just about 48 hours to go before the Texas polls close for this year’s midterm elections, I thought I would chime in with some rambling and linking about the contest for the Cornyn seat in the U.S. Senate and other assorted (and probably related) things just to document this moment in history for myself. But first, a quick listing of what turned into a minor series about a sore loser and his dying branch of a pathetic party:
Texas Senate race is a dead heat – The Quantus poll found that 48.7% of respondents backed Paxton, while 47.6% backed Talarico. Only 2.2% of respondents said they were undecided.
Only talk radio hosts from the coats believed the earlier polls anyway. From the Instapundit comments:”What? The Bush family support isn’t putting Talarico over the top?” We will come back to that topic shortly.
From the Powerline post: “The question exposes one of the recurrent fault lines on the American (and, more generally, Western) left. Of course, no reporter would dream of asking it.”
From the RedState post: “…this likely means she’s tanked her Democrat career, and they will all have the long knives out for her. But she believed it was more important to stand for the principle, stand for Michigan, and stand for the country. You don’t see too many people take that kind of a stand.”
Of course, for every example of character like that there seems of be a Bush to counter it. Forget Cornyn, my internet search for George W. Bush this evening brings me a Newsweek “Fact Check” that seems to think it important to convince me that W did not, in fact, endorse James Talarico. There seems to be something rather obvious not being discussed here…
I’ve posted much over the years about the insulting marketing gimmick that was “compassionate conservatism” as well as the Big-Tent-ism and Failure Theater that necessarily followed…eventually leaving us with this one last bothersome hemorrhoid for the cause named John Cornyn. Alas, he will soon be gone forgotten. As for W, his legacy gets smaller and less attractive every day…this current affair greatly soils the bed here in Texas. (Well, outside of Dallas, that is.)
