Category Archives: Republicans

David Barton to Primary Cornyn?

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Lawrence Person

National Review is reporting that evangelical historian David Barton is considering a primary challenge to John Cornyn? Can he take out Cornyn? I don’t see it: Barton is well known in evangelical circles, but not outside of them. Despite the … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 24, 2013

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Monday’s was late, this one is early: “A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight.” “What Ted Cruz did – and what the go-along, get-along gang of Republican stegosauruses hate … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 21, 2013

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Busy weekend, with lots of non-political stuff, so here’s last week’s LinkSwarm this week: The Tea Party helped launch the shutdown because the GOP establishment failed so utterly to limit bloated government. Well, that’s a scary chart. (Via Instapundit.) Is … Continue reading →

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Brandon Creighton: Out of Agricultural Commissioner Race, in Senate District 4 Race

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Following the unexpected retirement of State Senator Tommy Williams, Brandon Creighton announced he’s dropping out of the Ag Commissioner race to run for state Senate District 4. Republicans still in the Agricultural Commissioner’s race include: J. Allen Carnes (Note: Auto-running … Continue reading →

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Texas Statewide Race Update for October 16, 2013

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Slowly but surely I’m digging out from my post-Worldcon backlog, so I hope to do more on various statewide races soon-ish (for certain values of “soon-ish” that work out to “before the end of the year”). Greg Abbott reaches out … Continue reading →

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ObamaCare/Shutdown MiniRoundup

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Lawrence Person

In the tiny time left before the Senate Republican leadership decides just how far they want to sink their knives into backs of conservative hopes, here’s a tiny roundup of ObamaCare- and shutdown-related news. Also, for the record: Any deal … Continue reading →

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Texas Statewide Race Roundup for October 2, 2013

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another (no doubt incomplete) roundup of statewide race news: Holly Hansen interviews Greg Abbott. Wendy Davis expresses enthusiasm for gun control, because that will go over so well in Texas. Next up: Wendy David calls for banning BBQ, … Continue reading →

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Can Anyone Successfully Primary John Cornyn?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Lawrence Person

There’s been a lot of criticism of John Cornyn in Tea Party circles over his failure to back Ted Cruz in procedural votes on the ObamaCare defunding fight. Given that, the muttering over someone primarying Cornyn have grown much louder. … Continue reading →

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Cruz Filibuster Fallout

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Lawrence Person

A roundup of reactions and fallout from Ted Cruz’s mammoth 21-hour anti-OabamCare speech effort: The battle is joined: There is new leadership in the GOP, whether the party wants to admit it or not: Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Jeff … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 20, 2013

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Here’s a Friday LinkSwarm. I have a big piece brewing on the ObamCare battle I may or may not have out on Monday. Poland seizes half of private retirement funds. Republicans in the House actually manage to cut something. On … Continue reading →

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