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The upcoming Republican Party primary race for Texas governor presents a serious conundrum for GOP voters.<\/p>\n

They will get to choose from among three top-tier candidates, two of whom are nut jobs.<\/p>\n

We have the governor, Greg Abbott; challenging him are former Texas GOP chairman Allen West and former state senator Don Huffines. I won’t vote in the GOP primary this March, but I do have a thought or two I want to share.<\/p>\n

Abbott is being challenged on the right by West and Huffines. Those two clowns don’t believe Abbott is conservative enough. West is the former one-term Florida congressman who moved to Texas because his political career in Florida was shot; Huffines is another far right-winger who says we need to ban all immigration into Texas.<\/p>\n

Then we have Abbott, the guy who is fighting with the Biden administration over mask mandates.<\/p>\n

I believe Abbott will survive this primary challenge, chiefly because West and Huffines are going to carve up the nut-job vote, paving the way for Abbott to skate to the party nomination.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of the Texas Senate District 31 race in 2018 that enabled Sen. Kel Seliger of Amarillo to win his party’s nomination in a three-man race. His foes that year were former Midland mayor Mike Canon and Amarillo businessman Victor Leal. Both men sought to outflank Seliger on the far right. Seliger ran as a true-blue,\u00a0 mainstream Texas conservative and won the primary fight with 50.4 percent of the vote; no runoff was needed.<\/p>\n

Canon and Leal split the goofball vote in that year’s Senate GOP primary.<\/p>\n

I see the same thing happening this year in the GOP primary for governor.<\/p>\n

Texas politics is really weird, indeed.<\/p>\n

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