Pretty sure you are correct much to his shame. George Will didn't know what was in his and his countries' best interests.
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Paxton may "win" today but there is likely to be a runoff since nobody is expecting any candidate to get more than 50% of the vote.
Paxton is a complete idiot perfect for MAGA. He just may turn Texas purple. Didn't think it would be possible but when MAGA runs incompetent scumbags anything can happen.
Time to quote my own post. Trump just talked about the Brits and their mishandling of this island. He has a lot on his plate, but this is a very important base strategically.
Iran is certainly exposing a lot of our allies in many ways. Who is with us? Who is against us? Which allies are 'neutral'? Who has a military worth a crap. When the low number is 30,000 Iranians murdered by their government, there really isn't a case for not taking a side here.
My conclusions? We need to own Diego Garcia & Greenland. UK is impotent and we should just take Diego - hell the local population want us. Portugal, Greece, Gulf countries, and former Eastern Block countries are excellent allies. Spain potentially to be hit with a full embargo thanks to the corrupt Supreme Court - but hey, it is "legal". Also, quite proud of my 'minor' contributions to the effort.
Rubio is impressive (as is Vance). Rubio just did a mini scrum with the press heading into Congress and handled everything clearly and competently. Kinda nice after the Biden years.
He suffers from a lot more than TDS. I thought he was a dip **** weasel the first time I saw him on a 24 hour network news panel decades ago.
B-52’s are now being used in bombing runs. That means US and Israeli strikes have likely wiped most, if not all, out all Iranian weapons capable of targeting non-stealth aircraft.
Deny the US Diego, take a big chunk of their lucrative business.
This should get some attention for our TDS crowd and the Big Will is a BS crowd !
Imagine my surprise yesterday when an unsolicited text popped on my cell phone screen !
" Dinner at Mar-a-Lago ? Not a joke. you're invited...."
Reading the offer. Yes, I can enter the raffle, IF I enter and give a $ contribution to some Republican candidate.
I decided to buy some Powerball lottery tickets. (May have a better % of winning.)
I wonder what data base they found me at ?
But I'm there !
Imagine my surprise yesterday when an unsolicited text popped on my cell phone screen !
" Dinner at Mar-a-Lago ? Not a joke. you're invited...."
Reading the offer. Yes, I can enter the raffle, IF I enter and give a $ contribution to some Republican candidate.
I decided to buy some Powerball lottery tickets. (May have a better % of winning.)
I wonder what data base they found me at ?
But I'm there !
Welp. This will make a great ad for the Republican candidate/incumbent. And yes. It’s parsed text, but the average voter isn’t going to bother to go see the entire quote, much like the morons who think Trump was including the neo nazis in his very fine people quote.
I never said that MAGA was done after the Iran strikes. You have me mixed up with somebody else.
Yes, Texas Republican voters were pleasantly surprising in their lack of insanity last night.
After a decade of Jell-O shots from strippers' titties in primary after primary, they seem poised (especially if Trump endorses) to nominate the guy in Cornyn who won't hand a Senate seat to the criminal/adulterer/all-around scumbag in Paxton. Dems nominating Talarico puts further pressure on Rs not to be insane, as he's the much more electable candidate for them.
After a decade of Jell-O shots from strippers' titties in primary after primary, they seem poised (especially if Trump endorses) to nominate the guy in Cornyn who won't hand a Senate seat to the criminal/adulterer/all-around scumbag in Paxton. Dems nominating Talarico puts further pressure on Rs not to be insane, as he's the much more electable candidate for them.
True. I saw a panel the other night with a MAGA Gen Z who was a former Disney personality. I didn’t catch her name. A perfectly lovely blonde. She claimed that Trump fighting all of these “wars” (was Venezuela really a war) was not what he promised, not MAGA and not what we voted for. She was pretty clueless. MAGA is against forever wars. We are not against using the military. We want the strongest military so other countries don’t mess with us. If Iran is brought into the fold as a normal society, as they were prior to the Islamic Revolution, she will see safety and benefit she can’t see currently through her tunnel vision. It seemed to me, she was mistaking isolationism with MAGA. Isolationism isn’t going to fix anything, as much as forever wars didn’t fix much of anything either.
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Where does the Wes Hunt vote go? To the strippers and titties/evenly divided? How much turnout would be expected at a runoff? Who benefits from the runoff?
Generally, runoffs favor the more conservative candidate, which allegedly is Paxton. The Hunt voters are obviously an unknown, as Hunt is conservative but a serious-seeming politician. Clearly Hunt lost voters to Cornyn as it seemed almost certain Paxton would hit 40% from the beginning of this thing (he never really moved much off that mark).
That said, after Cornyn actually won the first round, I think Trump is endorsing and at that point the question becomes whether Cornyn wins by double digits. Alaska is a real problem for Rs because the Dem candidate is high quality and the voting procedure is a bit odd, so the GOP cannot put Texas in serious play too. The Dem path to winning the Senate is basically NC (Dems favored), Maine (call it 50/50, who knows), Alaska (doable but under 50% shot), and Rs blowing a race (Texas was always the most likely with Paxton lurking). Dems have the right candidate in Ohio to at least keep it competitive (former Senator Sherrod Brown), but he's still a solid underdog. I don't see Dems with much of a chance in Iowa or Florida right now, though maybe Iowa is within 5% in November.
One would certainly think a runoff favors Paxton, but it seems every special election/runoff MAGA doesn’t get out the vote, regardless of candidate. In that sense I think Cornyn has the edge now.
Had no knowledge of this a few hours ago when I posted, but I had the sense it was coming.
Reports all over that Trump will endorse Cornyn imminently and call for Paxton to leave the race (which can happen), meaning there wouldn't be a runoff. If Paxton ignored Trump, I suspect he'd lose by 25% plus considering what is coming.