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Nice try, Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n

The moderator of “Meet the Press” tried to\u00a0lure Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott into endorsing someone for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Abbott didn’t take the bait, saying he is “staying out of” the primary activity. Translation: I ain’t endorsing anyone, but I’ll support whoever the party nominates.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2014\/12\/abbott-staying-out-of-2016-gop-presidential-primary\/<\/p>\n

But then the thought occurred to me: The ’16 presidential field well could be chock full of current and former Texas politicians, and perhaps the son of a former Texas politician.<\/p>\n

Look at the Lone Star lineup.<\/p>\n

* Lame-duck Texas Gov. Rick Perry is making all kinds of racket about running once again for his party’s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

* Freshman U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz also is acting like a candidate in the making, delivering speeches to fundraising giants and making a nuisance of himself by showing up in front of TV cameras at any opportunity.<\/p>\n

* Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who grew up in Texas, is a possible — some say “probable” — candidate.<\/p>\n

* U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is the son of a former Texas member of Congress, Ron Paul, who has run unsuccessfully already for his party’s nomination.<\/p>\n

Am I missing anyone?<\/p>\n

Count ’em. That’s four leading politicians with Texas ties looking (possibly?) to run for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Yes, the GOP is mighty strong in Texas.<\/p>\n

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Nice try, Chuck Todd. The moderator of “Meet the Press” tried to\u00a0lure Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott into endorsing someone for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Abbott didn’t take the bait, saying he is “staying out of” the primary activity. Translation: I ain’t endorsing anyone, but I’ll support whoever the party nominates. http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2014\/12\/abbott-staying-out-of-2016-gop-presidential-primary\/ But then the … Continue reading Abbott staying neutral in '16 GOP primary<\/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":[18],"tags":[2006,2429,3822,3951,4010,4537,4575,4622,4674],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-jeb-bush","tag-rand-paul","tag-rick-perry","tag-ron-paul","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","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=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}