This gentleman went out on a limb with a forecast for the Texas GOP, of all people, about how they’re going to screw up. A RW influencer tells Texas to think about what they’re doing. This must be a pay-per-view on television, because it can’t be real. It can’t be. But it is. With gratitude to Raw Story:
Right-wing commentator Erick Erickson sounded the alarm in his Substack on Monday that the Texas Republican Party is on the brink of committing electoral “suicide” in the Senate race. “Ken Paxton, the sitting Attorney General, has decided to challenge Senator John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Primary. For those unfamiliar with Paxton, had Trump lost in 2024, Paxton would most likely be in Federal prison,” wrote Erickson, who has grown increasingly critical of the MAGA movement.
We could have been so lucky? Paxton ranks right up there with the Bannon and Miller slime. He’s absolutely disgusting and doesn’t belong in a public office. But he is, and that’s Texas’s problem, for now. Please, no, don’t let Paxton get to the Senate. He makes the ultraconservatives look like ballerinas. And sometimes, he’s worse than Trump, if you’ll believe that’s possible. Don’t trust him as far as you can throw him, and he can’t be thrown.
“In addition to being a serial adulterer on his wife, Paxton has been impeached unsuccessfully by the Texas legislature and deeply investigated by the federal government, among other things,” wrote Erickson. “Ironically, Paxton’s wife saved him from being convicted by the Texas Senate, wherein she held elected office. Though she could not vote on the matter, she stood by her man. After the impeachment trial, we all found out about Paxton’s extramarital activities, and his marriage blew up.” This all happened, he noted, because “Eight of Paxton’s closest aides reported Paxton to the FBI for bribery and abuse of office” — and he only escaped prison because President Donald Trump didn’t want to prosecute an ally who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election.
Damn, if any of those had worked, he *could* be rotting in prison. We can bet his wife was quite sorry she had stood by him when she found out about all the affairs. Hope she took him to the cleaners. It would have been great if he had gone to prison. And now he’s running against Cornyn. There is no love here for Texas, but they don’t need to put Paxton in the Senate. Good gods.
“In truth, Paxton might win, particularly if the Democrats nominate Jasmine Crockett. But the amount of resources Republicans will have to spend on getting Paxton across the finish line will divert critical money from Georgia to beat Ossoff, Maine to help Susan Collins, Michigan to help Mike Rogers, and North Carolina to stop Roy Cooper, among others,” wrote Erickson. And it’s not out of the question Paxton could lose outright — after all, Texas Democrats just flipped a state Senate seat in a blowout that Trump won by 17 points.
“Some of these Texas supporters of Paxton have reasoned they’d rather the Democrats take the Senate than keep John Cornyn. They will not be reasoned with. They wrap themselves in the language of Christianity and promote a serial adulterer of ill repute and then convince themselves the country is going to hell in a hand basket,” Erickson concluded. “They’ll certainly do their best to get us all in that hand basket if they get Paxton across the finish line.”
Okay, so, no clue what the deal is with Cornyn. He is the Majority Leader, after all. Maybe he’s not Republican enough. Google to the rescue! He’s not MAGA enough; he is working across the aisle for bipartisan gun safety regulations, and at some point, he criticized Trump. Those all seem pretty petty. Other reasons seem just as petty. But it does make him vulnerable. Texas is definitely one of the weirder places in the US. It’s a good thing I never intend to go there. I’d probably be run out of town on a rail. When it comes down to it, Ken Paxton, oh HELL NO. See you soon!
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