Guest post by Scan
This is an official campaign video for Senator John Cornyn, who’s up for reelection this year.
Serious.
Clearly, this is hilarious stuff and perhaps will live in infamy (“six mo”?!), but as a lifelong Texan I can’t say it’s too surprising. Running as a cowboy is the fallback position for any politician with a lightweight or unpopular record. How do you think our current president defeated Ann Richards in 1994?
The good news is that Cornyn’s approval ratings have generally been in the gutter for a while now, and his opponent, state representative Rick Noriega, is within low single-digits of defeating him. Rick’s a great Democratic candidate and I’m very excited about his prospects. Check out this section of his bio page…I have a feeling that once Rick gets a proper introduction, Texans will be able to tell the poseur from the real thing:
Rick felt compelled to answer the call and serve in the U.S. Army in the wake of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. He was a commander of the 143rd Infantry Detachment (Long-Range Surveillance), an aide to Brigadier General David Heuer, and aide-de-camp to General Samuel Turk, Adjutant General of the Texas Army National Guard. But Rick’s service in the Army did not end there. He became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard, and served as deputy garrison commander of the KMTC training facility in Kabul, Afghanistan after 9/11. Rick was deployed for 14 months and spent a year in Afghanistan until August 2005, and he was also the Laredo Border Sector Commander in Operation Jump Start during the summer of 2006.
I can see the ads now. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s been a popular and effective legislator from the Houston area for many years.
Getting rid of “Big Bad John” would be great not just for Texas, but for the other 49 states as well. The guy has been a consistently nasty Bush crony from the beginning. Stop by Rick Noriega’s website if you’d like to help make Cornyn’s defeat a reality.
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