Here’s my quick reaction to last night’s primaries in Texas, as well as a final note on the end of Thomas Massie’s congressional career.
The margin of Cornyn’s loss to Paxton – the latest number I’ve seen is that he lost by almost 30% — is an indicator of both Trump’s control over the GOP, and also (somehow!) an indicator that the MSM is exaggerating that control, for their own propagandistic purposes.
Obviously, over the last month Trump has identified a lot of GOP candidates in primaries whom he wanted to lose…and they all lost. So there’s that.
On the other hand, our leftist media is framing this phenomenon solely as Trump’s petty revenge on candidates against whom he’s had personal grudges. That’s perfect spin from them, since it makes Trump look bad (“He’s a petulant child!”) AND it makes GOP voters look bad (“They’re mindless robots just following the Orange Menace’s orders.”)
But the reality is that GOP voters are mostly conservative, and the mostly RINO-esque candidates who have lost primaries have been voting and acting against conservative principles. Cornyn has been in the Senate since the War of 1812, and in just the last 5 years or so, he’d racked up a lot of big anti-conservative votes.
By the time Trump endorsed Paxton, he had already pulled ahead of Cornyn. In fact, most analysts point to one strategic move that turned the tide for Paxton: he said that if Cornyn would throw his weight behind the SAVE Act and do everything he could to pass it, Paxton would drop out. That would be an easy call for any conservative, since SAVE is a 85-15 issue nationwide, and conservatives love it.
When Cornyn dragged his feet even on that, he doomed his own chances, whether or not Trump supported him.
The other best bit of news out of Texas yesterday was the defeat of Al Green, the unhinged loon who has been kicked out of the last two State of the Union addresses because he was waving a cane around and shouting nonsense like he was auditioning for a spot on The View.
And that’s not to mention the most obvious thing that for some reason nobody has been mentioning: he’s clearly stuck halfway through the process of a man transforming into a werewolf.
He was lopsidedly beaten by a much younger, more sane-seeming black Democrat candidate in a re-drawn district. Considering the Dems’ recent track record, this young guy will likely turn out to be terrible too. But at least the taxpayers of Texas won’t have to cover the cost of a security detail for him every full moon, to make sure that he doesn’t roam the countryside attacking innocent people and turning them into more members of the Democrat werewolf army.
So he’s got that going for him.
Finally, I’ve got a few last thoughts on the implosion of Thomas Massie, now that the dust has settled.
Once again, lefists – and this time, many of Massie’s horseshoe left supporters – have identified two convenient (but wrong) reasons for this defeat. They blame it on Trump’s vitriol against their guy (see everything above), and they also throw in a nice dose of anti-Semitism, since all that evil Israeli money was a factor in the race.
Never mind that not a single dollar from Israel was spent against him, since AIPAC and all of the Jewish people who responded to his anti-Semitism by contributing to his opponent are American citizens, with the same right to oppose those who hate and slander them as any of us do.
The clear reason Massie lost was that in a pro-Trump, heavily conservative district, he insulted Trump and voted against conservative priorities. One give-away was that in the final weeks of the campaign, he received and accepted support from a parade of horrible leftists ranging from Cenk Uyger, Joy Reid, many Islamist individuals and organizations, plus The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin.
It also didn’t help that he ran obviously lying ads saying that he was a big Trump supporter, complete with misleading ads from years ago touting Trump’s support for him.
But here’s the icing on the cake, which I had not heard about until after the race. While Massie constantly touted that he voted over 90% with the GOP and Trump, that pattern had radically shifted. Three terms ago he’d voted 95% with the GOP, but in the next term that dropped to 91%, and has since fallen to 77%. At that pace, in another four years, he’d be gay-married to Bernie Sanders and taking a honeymoon in the old USSR.
And this term, he had taken the anti-GOP and Trump position on each of the major issues that came up for a vote.
Of course, the anti-Trumpers claimed that he lost because Trump viciously turned on him, and while that was definitely true, Trump did the same thing in the 2020 election cycle. He called Massie a “disaster” and rallied against him constantly. And yet Massie won in a landslide that year, 81-19%!
What changed? Not the voters in his district, and not Trump.
Massie is the one who changed, because back then he was supporting the GOP and Trump 95% of the time, and in this cycle he’s been attacking both. And conservative Kentuckians don’t like that.
Unexpectedly!
Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!
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