Trump’s Texas Deal Dilemma
Kurt Schlichter
10–12 minutes
If Fredocon dreamboat David French is supporting that creepy Democrat blasphemer James Talarico, that’s all you need to know if you’re a Texan – and I am aspiring to someday be an officially certified licensed Texan once I ditch this decaying feudal nightmare that is California. You’ve got to vote for whoever has the (R) after his name. And that’s not easy. The two guys in the runoffs are flawed, and their suboptimization is either entirely or largely their own fault. It’s not fair to us as Republicans, either in Texas or in the USA as a whole. Nor is it fair to Donald Trump, the guy we elected as the leader of our movement, who is now in a tough position. He doesn’t want a runoff that spends a ton of money that could be better used winning an open seat. He also doesn’t want the two Republicans to kneecap one another and give Temu Buttigieg a chance to win in November.
Frankly, neither of these guys should be running. They should’ve taken the hit and accepted the consequences of their actions, or lack of actions, and let somebody without the baggage of a Gulf emir’s third wife on a month-long shopping trip to Paris take a shot. But no, these guys both think they’re the only ones who can do this job. It has to be them because reasons and whatever. Instead of self-sacrifice, it’s potentially sacrificing a seat, which means potentially sacrificing our country. Great work all around, guys.
We’ve got to vote for whichever one wins the primary, no matter what happens. But let’s not fool ourselves. Incumbent John Cornyn is a disaster, one of those brain-dead stiffs who thinks it’s 2002 and finds us uppity voters annoying – we cramp his style, which consists of clinking glasses with his pals while savoring the unearned respect and sycophantic tongue-bathing he gets as one of 100 of his fellow (mostly) mediocrities. The only reason he can’t sell out us conservatives is that he doesn’t actually believe in conservatism; you’re not selling out if you’re acting consistently with your total lack of any coherent paradigm of political belief.
What’s so bad about him? Well, he’s the same kind of deep Red State Republican we always seem to get, a Republican who’s neither deep nor truly red. Let’s review some of his greatest hits, which are all misses. This guy worked with the Democrats on a gun control bill. Now, you’re probably asking yourself what would possess any Republican to work with Democrats on a gun control bill. Was he hanging with a shaman and slurping ayahuasca? Did he suffer some sort of brain injury? Was it a literal possession – is Pazuzu at work? Regardless, this is the kind of guy who thinks that was a good idea.
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