91AggieLawyer said:
Infection_Ag11 said:
Any Texan who voted for Hunt or Paxton has no business mocking or complaining about Talarico, now or at any point in the future.
We have to stop this trend of voting for people who YOU KNOW leaves the door open to the opposition while simultaneously complaining about the opposition. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. If Talarico wins, every person who voted for Paxton or Hunt voted for him.
This is idiotic. I don't know that voting for Paxton (in my case) leaves any door open for anyone else.
If Talarico wins over Paxton, a virtual impossibility, he would have won over Cornyn. How many state-wide elections has Paxton won? He isn't an unknown, especially to Republican voters.
I get that you don't like Paxton. But don't make stuff up. A far better case could be made that voting for Cornyn in the primary puts the seat at risk (even though it really doesn't) because Cornyn is going to cause many conservatives to either stay home or simply not vote for Senator in November. I, for one, refuse to vote for Cornyn again.
I guess you haven't thought about that, have you?
I will vote for whoever the nominee is because I'm a Republican and want conservative principles to succeed. I voted Hunt in the primary because I think Cornyn should have retired, but I'll vote Cornyn in the runoff because: (1) Paxton is an awful person, and (2) Cornyn has the best shot of winning (it's true, even if Paxton supporters don't want to hear it).
Yes, there are always folks who, if they don't get their way and get their candidate on the ballot, will refuse to support the nominee in November, but only people who don't care about winning will do that. Trump cares about winning. I care about winning. If Paxton is the nominee, I'll vote for him (he can probably do less harm as a Senator than as the AG, ironically). If Cornyn is the nominee, I will vote for him.
As absurd as the False Prophet looks to most of us, he will get 45% of the vote without even trying. While one might expect Republicans to fall in line behind whoever wins the nomination, there are plenty of voters who aren't reliable Republicans, but who do vote that way often enough to count statistically as R voters, who will need to be persuaded to vote R come November. No one can credibly claim that Paxton is in a better position to do this.