{"id":4179,"date":"2013-12-09T01:18:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2013-12-09T01:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:18:44","slug":"thornberry-gets-a-challenge-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Thornberry gets a challenge … from the right!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An acquaintance of mine read a blog I posted about state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, drawing an opponent in next March’s GOP primary.<\/p>\n

She wants to know what I think of another race involving a Republican officeholder: U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry of Clarendon.<\/p>\n

Well, here goes.<\/p>\n

There can be no doubt that Elaine Hays, an Amarillo financial planner, thinks that Thornberry isn’t conservative enough<\/em>. For the life of me I cannot understand that one.<\/p>\n

Here is Hays’s “issues” page taken from her campaign website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.elainehaysforcongress.com\/#!issues\/cdbv<\/p>\n

Hays is seeking to bounce Thornberry out of the office he’s held since 1995. I looked at the issues summaries posted and I am having trouble finding anything substantively different from what Thornberry has supported during his umpteen terms in Congress.<\/p>\n

I must stipulate that I do not know Elaine Hays. She calls herself a “dedicated conservative,” a wife and mother. I am quite sure Thornberry sees himself as just as conservative as Hays and he’s a dedicated husband and father to boot.<\/p>\n

Of the issues Hays has cited, I cannot fathom how her voting record would differ from the incumbent’s. Thornberry has voted for pro-life legislation; he’s opposed spending measures proposed by Democrats; he supports gun-owners rights; he’s called for more exploration of fossil fuels to achieve “energy independence”; he’s given the cold shoulder to immigration reform efforts and has spoken in favor of strengthening our borders.<\/p>\n

These all are things Hays is saying.<\/p>\n

What makes her different? I’m guessing she’s going to be even more forceful <\/em>than Thornberry in pushing them. That’s about all I can figure.<\/p>\n

That spells “tea party Republican” to me.<\/p>\n

I didn’t think it was possible to run to the right of Mac Thornberry. I’m guessing Elaine Hays is going to prove me — and a lot of other observers — so very wrong.<\/p>\n\n

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An acquaintance of mine read a blog I posted about state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, drawing an opponent in next March’s GOP primary. She wants to know what I think of another race involving a Republican officeholder: U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry of Clarendon. Well, here goes. There can be no doubt that Elaine Hays, an … Continue reading Thornberry gets a challenge … from the right!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2849,3914,4531],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mac-thornberry","tag-republican-primary","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}