It’s no secret that John Cornyn is in grave danger of having the good people of Texas dislodge him from the senatorial sinecure he’s occupied without distinction for four endless terms. He seeks a fifth term for no apparent reason other than he loves having lackeys address him as “Your Senatorness.” And that’s all he does – his opponent, Kenny Paxton, lays waste while John Cornyn lays around. He is, as one might say in the otherwise awesome Lone Star State, as useless as mammaries on a bull.
Today, Cornyn is a non-player timeserver; it’s tomorrow that we need to worry about. If he wins the May runoff against Paxton, he’ll be the favorite over that creepy Buttigieg Mini-Me James Talarico (D-Uncanny Valley) – yes, Texas is changing, but not so much that it will embrace the goof who thinks the Lord is gender confused and giggles at leftists talking about His genitalia. Having a nominal Republican is better than a communist heretic with who-knows-what on his browser history, but the question raised by the recent conduct of such alleged conservative GOP senators as Thom Tillis, John Curtis, and Lisa Murkowski is “How much better?”
John Cornyn winning the pending runoff and then the general election means we (okay, I am not an official, licensed Texas resident yet, but I spend enough time there that I have a rooting interest), means Texas would be re-electing an undistinguished mediocrity who treads water in a puddle of establishment swamp goo. He leads nothing and does nothing – only when it became clear that he was in grave danger of losing to reliable and aggressive conservative Kenny Paxton did he have a come-to-Trump moment and run zillions of dollars in ads about his alleged slavish loyalty to the president. He does something like that every six years – he comes back to Texas, pops a brand-new Stetson on his noggin, stands near a horse for the cameras, and tells the voters what they want to hear. Safely re-elected – even he’s not dumb enough to lose as a Republican in the Lone Star State – he shakes the dust of his alleged home state off his Gucci loafers and heads home to the swamp and his sycophants after returning his hat to its box, along with his promises of conservative leadership, for another six years.
About 59 percent of the primary voters weren’t buying his convenient conversion to conservatism, so he did a 180 on the SAVE America Act, hoping that the “SAVE” part would apply to his career. But where was his heat? One argument for him is his awesome seniority and the potent power it provides the people of Texas. So, where were his pals when he needed them? Where was a single waffling senator who jumped behind the SAVE America Act to save John Cornyn?
Cue the West Texas tumbleweeds. He called for help, and his alleged buddies sent it to voicemail. If he had the capacity for shame, he’d be overdosing on it.
But his dogged dedication to mediocrity is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that if we re-elect John Cornyn to what he promises is his last term, we will have nothing on him to ameliorate his RINO instincts. Those are the same instincts that led him to support a Democrat gun control bill and to rhapsodize about amnesty for illegal aliens – you know, the infamous “comprehensive immigration reform” that is basically just comprehensive immigration by the entire Third World forever.
You don’t have to imagine what John Cornyn unconstrained looks like – his friends are giving us a preview. Take Thom Tillis, please. This doofus knew that his craving for caving meant he was doomed in the North Carolina primary, so he quit. Now he’s doing everything he can to mess with President Trump, which means he’s doing everything he can to mess with the Republican base that elected him. He’s been especially obnoxious about nominees. The maverick act is fun for him while being rewarding – it’s revenge plus nice WaPo write-ups on how he’s a brave leader of leadership. With no looming election to discipline him, the real Thom Tillis is on full display. And it’s real bad.
And then there’s John Curtis, another of those allegedly commonsense Republicans, if you define commonsense as preventing Republicans from doing anything Republicans actually want done. This discount Mitt Romney is from Utah, and he’s not up for reelection until 2030, so he’s letting his freak flag fly. He recently came out on X and announced that even though he’s for the war against Iran, he’s not going to vote for any more money until there’s a declaration of war. Helpful! What an idiot. But he got plenty of attention, and that’s what he really wants. He’s able to rely on the absolutely baffling ability of what should be the most conservative state in the country to elect squishes, which it does regularly unless the name on the ballot is “Mike Lee.”
And then there’s the inexplicable Lisa Murkowski, another of these Red State fake Republicans, who seems to believe that election fraud by Eskimos and ranked choice voting will save her once again. She feels no compunction about voting against the interests of her state and its very conservative base. She does it again and again and again because she is not afraid of her voters.
Now, what do you think John Cornyn will do if he is no longer afraid of his voters? As we’ve seen, you can have an ultra-red state, and they still somehow elect people who run from conservatism like a vampire from a crucifix. He’s already angry because Texas GOP voters have dared to repudiate him. He already hates Donald Trump. That’s a lot of anger and resentment, and it’s all going to play out poorly for America when he doesn’t have to worry about being re-elected.
We’ve already seen the dumb stuff he does when he has a reelection race hanging over his head. It’s game on for Democrat priorities the second he gets re-elected. Right now, a bunch of fake Republicans in the House are trying to push an amnesty bill, the Dignity Act. And it’s not even a moderate amnesty bill. It’s everything the Democrats ever wanted, including undoing the deportations Trump has already done. Do you think there’s a chance in hell John Cornyn will stand up against it? He’s going to co-sponsor it!
Texas voters can’t take that chance, but this is bigger than just Texas. As we’ve seen, the Red States have a disastrous tendency to elect squishes. It’s probably because the only way you can succeed in politics in red states is to have an (R) after your name. As we’ve seen, an (R) after your name means nothing if the voters don’t hold you to account. There’s a runoff in May. Republicans can hold John Cornyn to account. And they better, because he will only get worse.
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