{"id":4830,"date":"2014-02-22T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2014-02-22T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T15:51:51","slug":"new-guy-joins-gop-senate-nut-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"New guy joins GOP Senate nut brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It looks like Steve Stockman has company in the nut house corps seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n<p>The new guy is Chris Mapp, a Port O&#8217;Connor businessman who is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, right along with Stockman.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/GOP-Senate-candidate-from-South-Texas-slammed-for-5255976.php#src=fb<\/p>\n<p>Mapp said that South Texas ranchers should shoot &#8220;wetbacks&#8221; and called President Obama a &#8220;socialist son of a bitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said this in response: \u201cI recognize this is a free country but that&#8217;s not the sort of way to gain people&#8217;s confidence that you care about them and you want to represent their concerns in the halls of Congress.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Do you think, Sen. Cornyn?<\/p>\n<p>I almost am speechless. But not quite.<\/p>\n<p>It seems as though the debate keeps taking these intermittent radical right turns. Candidates keep popping up &#8212; and popping off &#8212; with these off-the-wall comments. They want us to take them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to believe they expect Texans or any Americans for that matter to believe they have the country&#8217;s best interests at heart when they advocate such idiocy in public.<\/p>\n<p>As Robert Stovall, Bexar County GOP chairman, said of Mapp&#8217;s comments: \u201cThat is way out of bounds and I can&#8217;t imagine many people in Texas, much less Texas Republicans, voting for that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope he&#8217;s correct.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Steve Stockman has company in the nut house corps seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. The new guy is Chris Mapp, a Port O&#8217;Connor businessman who is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, right along with Stockman. http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/GOP-Senate-candidate-from-South-Texas-slammed-for-5255976.php#src=fb Mapp said that South Texas ranchers should shoot &#8220;wetbacks&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New guy joins GOP Senate nut brigade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2526,4693],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-cornyn","tag-texas-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","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=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}