Paxton > Cornyn |
Being an adult is about making choices, and the choice in Texas is one we shouldn’t have had to make. We should have had a quality conservative incumbent and zero question about winning in November. But we don’t. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) should not have sucked. He should’ve been a hard-core conservative, as befitting a red state, instead of a squishy invertebrate whose smarmy contempt for actual voters led him to seek that Strange New Respect one gets from the regime media by doing things like working with the Democrats on gun control, signaling his openness to amnesty, and circling the wounded Donald Trump like a vulture until he recovered and then pretending to be his bestest buddy ever was.
Had he not been a failed politician from 2003 transported into 2026, he would not have faced a primary, and the money that will now have to be spent in Texas could have been spent elsewhere. But the thing about John Cornyn is that it’s all about John Cornyn; the same ego that makes him scoff at his voters for five years out of his six-year terms is the same ego that makes it inconceivable that he might step aside and save his party both the cash and the risk that comes with a primary. And so we must make our choice.
Well, you in Texas must make your choice. Though I live part-time in Texas, I’m still voting in California. And while one might contend that a conservative Californian has no business weighing in on a Texas runoff, that’s not so. This is bigger than our individual states. This is about the country. The stakes are high. We Republicans can’t lose the Senate, and the road to a Democrat Senate lies through the Lone Star State. And the stakes would not have been so high if not for John Cornyn’s deliberate choices. So, now we must choose.
There is one inescapable conclusion. If you’re in Texas, you need to vote for Attorney General Kenny Paxton. If you’re giving money in the Texas race, which you could’ve given somewhere else if not for John Cornyn, you should give it to Kenny Paxton.
The best argument for John Cornyn is that he would be a near-lock to win the general election against James Talarico, the latest goofball the Democrats hope will turn Texas blue. They do this every few years by talking themselves into believing that, somehow, the voters of the Lone Star State can be persuaded to vote for someone who’s going to ensure that children can be mutilated because their mommy has Munchausen syndrome, or to reinstate all the DEI garbage, or to make abortions mandatory and all guns illegal because of his One Neat Trick. And of course, these One Neat Tricks are always hilariously inept. There was that woman who really loved abortion, and that was going to be her One Neat Trick. And then there was Beto, the furry, and he was really good-looking, and that was going to be his One Neat Trick. They failed.
And now........