{"id":4442,"date":"2014-01-12T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2014-01-12T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T13:24:39","slug":"cornyn-running-against-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn running against … President Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has just let Texans know how seriously he views the challenge from his right.<\/p>\n

Not very seriously at all, or so it appears.<\/p>\n

Cornyn has released a TV spot that talks not about any of the people running against him in the March 4 Republican primary. He blasts President Obama.<\/p>\n

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It’s not surprising, perhaps, to see this kind of strategy begin to play out. The more a powerful incumbent says about an opponent, the more publicity the opponent gets. I refer to U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, who’s emerging as the chief primary challenger to Cornyn. <\/p>\n

The incumbent isn’t about to give Stockman any mention at all. Why should he? Doing so elevates Stockman’s profile; it gives him attention; it provides him with grist of his own to use against Cornyn.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t hurt that Cornyn is holding up the president as a “foe,” given Barack Obama’s unpopularity among most Texans. <\/p>\n

The language in the ad is harsh. In my view it’s overly<\/em> harsh, but that’s just me.<\/p>\n

However, it makes for extremely smart politics from John Cornyn. <\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has just let Texans know how seriously he views the challenge from his right. Not very seriously at all, or so it appears. Cornyn has released a TV spot that talks not about any of the people running against him in the March 4 Republican primary. He blasts President Obama. http:\/\/wordpress.com\/read\/blog\/feed\/12395410\/ … Continue reading Cornyn running against … President Obama?<\/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":[540,1963,2526,4426,4675,4980],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-gop-primary","tag-john-cornyn","tag-steve-stockman","tag-texas-politics","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","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=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}