Take The Senate
Okay, I think taking the Senate is the way to go.
This morning, my ears started flapping and my head almost flew away reading Nate Cohn on the Texas Senate race. He called MJ Hegar‘s race against John Cornyn as “flying under the radar.” The thought that we could win a Texas Senate race or that anybody was even thinking about it is stunning.
I’m not a giant fan of Hegar’s. I know she has failed to connect with black women and that’s a major mistake in a Texas general election. But, she’s what we got because the national party boys took her hand and led her to the top of the heap, and I hate when they do that. To be honest, it wasn’t much of a heap.
Beto fell victim of rock star ego, thinking he could run for president instead of senate. I will give him kudos for working 28 hours a day this election, helping other candidates and organizing an effective team to work with state representative candidates all over the state. The Castro Brothers are sitting around waiting over there in the corner for someone to hand them an election. They are both nice, smart guys, but there’s not even the scent of courage in their suitcases.
So here we are with a candidate for senate who doesn’t fire up anybody except the fellas who don’t live here and want to use Texas as an ATM machine.
And there’s a slim possibility she might win.
The Washington Post this morning talked about how the replacing a justice might give Trump a boost. I don’t buy it.
Off subject but….stock market way down today on reports of Deutsche bank illicit bank transfers. Maybe there’s no there there inside the investigation involving Trump, but we can always hope. Stock market sure got rattled!
1Exact same situation in Kentucky. Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath is running against McConnell, but she’s a cherry picked Washington candidate – Schumer, I’m looking at you – and she’s getting a lot of bad advice, and running a poor campaign. Mitch is going to devour her on toast. Sadly. But as you say, it wasn’t much of a heap to pick from.
2Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself, the pundits lost me years before being eligible to vote. That phrase from a history book “Reagan Democrat” is still twerking in my cranium. Seriously. What was 1980? The year for the oxymoron?
Is MJ Hegar the best candidate for a Senate seat from Texas? Maybe not. But most assuredly John Cornyn is the worst Texas could put forth next to Teddie Crooze. While Beto didn’t defeat Crooze in 2018, he did demonstrate that Texas deserves better. So if Cornyn is to pay the price for Crooze and himself, it’s only fair that he loses.
Cornyn, Susan Collins, Cory Gardner, Thom Tillis, Leningrad Lindsey, Martha McSally, and Steve Daines. That’s seven very vulnerable Rats. Wish Moscow Mitch could be added to the list, but Kentucky seems stuck on st00pid for another 6 years.
3I wish the rePUKEians and other generally st00pid people would succeed in getting Texas to succeed!! Then they would be kept busy building THE WALL around texas, to to keep people out, but to stop the steady flow of smart people leaving!!!
4I can’t blame the Dems for hand picking Hegar. For years, until Beto, we’ve had a sorry pile of people who ran – it was like they lost a game of dare and had to put their name on a ticket. What gives me more hope is that we are now – thanks to McConnell and his majesty – starting to have young Dem. candidates win offices throughout the state which can be a springboard to higher office. When I hear the news about RBG, I first wrote Cruz/Cornyn to ask them to wait until inauguration to replace the seat, but I also then donated to Hegar and Biden.
5Lordy mercy, Ms Juanita. I was always on your wavelength, but truly had no idea just how much.
I feel like I was just granted absolution.
How many other democrats agree with your position on the Texas candidates?
6Well, as a former helicopter pilot (Vietnam), I am sympathetic to Hegar, although I never rode on the skids while firing at the enemy. She may not be the favorite choice, but, as a recent writer to the Chronicle about Dan Crenshaw (my rep) said, he would vote for a ham sandwich rather than Crenshaw. I feel the same about Cornyn, especially given his hypocrisy about the Supreme Court – and many other things. As for Kentucky, I do not understand continually voting for a true sociopath.
7FWIW- Al Gross has just pulled even against Sullivan in Alaska, this is the least expensive state to run in, a place where a little bit of cash can make a big impact!
In other news, Greenfield has pulled ahead of Ernst but needs cash to cement that lead. And also Ossoff & Bullock are behind in cash but potentially able to win.
The Mississippi Free Press is also reporting that Mike Espy raised more in one day than any candidate in state history following RBG’s death. He raised $500,000 this weekend more than triple what the GOP incumbent raised over a three month period.
Susan is spot on if we push MJ over the top Texas is in play.
The Senate is the place to win.
8Crone @6 Here’s another one. Don’t dislike Hegar, just don’t think she’s ready. But she’s what we got so I’ll click her name when I’m in the booth. But mostly I’m voting against Coryn. Again.
9I fear Mitch getting his Trump clone into the SCOTUS could, indeed, be a boost for Trump.
Trump’s going to contest his loss, we know that to be a fact. And it WILL get kicked up to the Supremes and a 5/4 decision in favor of Trump will then be inevitable.
And that’s not to mention ALEC and the Koch brothers’ and various other corporate R’s getting everything they ever wanted over the course of the next 30 years or so: the end of the ACA along with skyrocketing drug prices, the end of unions, Roe gone, women put back in the kitchen and the bedroom where they belong, the end of any hope of a livable minimum wage, along with a long laundry list I’m not nearly business savvy enough to have a clue about.
And massive voter suppression which will make sure their wins get secured for forever.
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