The show-stealer with national implications was the impressive victory of John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, over conservative Rep. Steve Stockman
and six other Republican challengers. Cornyn, the one-time head of the
Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, drew the challenge despite his
solid conservative voting record and credentials. He rolled to victory
with 61 percent of the overall vote – exceeding a high bar of
performance set by many political experts.
At the same time, nine-term
Republican Rep. Pete Sessions easily defeated his GOP primary
challenger, Katrina Pierson, who was backed by FreedomWorks, a national Tea Party group.
So the Washington insiders beat the crazy Tea Partiers by a pretty wide margin as I expected. I hope Ted Cruz isn't getting too comfortable in his Washington perch right now. It looks more and more like the shutting down the government and threatening a destroying the world economy is turning out to be the Tea Parties Waterloo.
No comments:
Post a Comment