{"id":4369,"date":"2014-01-02T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:15:52","slug":"hoping-stockman-flames-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Hoping Stockman flames out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My fond hope is that Paul Burka is right that Steve Stockman’s candidacy will vaporize after the March Republican primary.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/steve-stockman-non-story<\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m terribly fond of Sen. John Cornyn. <\/p>\n

Here’s my concern.<\/p>\n

A victory by Stockman, a congressman who has become a GOP tea party golden boy, could spell doom if he manages to win this fall against whomever the Democrats nominate. You see, Texas is so solidly Republican — even with strong Democratic candidates running for governor and lieutenant governor this year — that Stockman could win this fall even with his loony record in Congress.<\/p>\n

Burka is betting on Cornyn “wiping the floor” with Stockman.<\/p>\n

I hope that’s true. Given what I know about both of these guys, Cornyn is the far superior Republican nominee.<\/p>\n

As they say, though, stranger things can — and do — happen. <\/p>\n\n

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My fond hope is that Paul Burka is right that Steve Stockman’s candidacy will vaporize after the March Republican primary. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/steve-stockman-non-story It’s not that I’m terribly fond of Sen. John Cornyn. Here’s my concern. A victory by Stockman, a congressman who has become a GOP tea party golden boy, could spell doom if he manages … Continue reading Hoping Stockman flames out<\/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":[71,2526,4426],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2014-texas-election","tag-john-cornyn","tag-steve-stockman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","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=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}