{"id":9579,"date":"2015-06-03T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T00:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T00:56:03","slug":"take-this-vow-from-patrick-with-much-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9579","title":{"rendered":"Take this vow from Patrick with much salt"},"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>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he&#8217;ll never run for governor against Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, he says he&#8217;s not going to run for governor ever.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/01\/patrick-im-not-running-against-abbott-2018\/<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe him? Is this the final word on the subject?<\/p>\n<p>I remain a bit dubious about this disavowal of any further political ambition. As for the finality, do not bet anything, not a nickel, that we&#8217;ve heard the last of it.<\/p>\n<p>As lieutenant governor, Patrick presides over the Texas Senate. As governor, Abbott is the state&#8217;s chief executive. Patrick&#8217;s conservative agenda is well-known. So is his rather meteoric temperament. Abbott&#8217;s conservative credentials also are beyond question. However, there are times when he doesn&#8217;t seem as fervently conservative as Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>I hear what Patrick says today about his political ambition. However, these things can and do change.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just something about Patrick that makes me wonder whether he&#8217;s telling us the whole truth.<\/p>\n<p>The late U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen once told me he wouldn&#8217;t accept a vice-presidential spot on the Democratic Party ticket in\u00a01988. Then he did.<\/p>\n<p>The late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy said he wouldn&#8217;t seek the presidency in 1968. Then he did.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Dan Patrick is capable of changing his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he&#8217;ll never run for governor against Greg Abbott. Not only that, he says he&#8217;s not going to run for governor ever. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/01\/patrick-im-not-running-against-abbott-2018\/ Do I believe him? Is this the final word on the subject? I remain a bit dubious about this disavowal of any further political ambition. As for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take this vow from Patrick with much salt<\/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":[18,1],"tags":[1255,2006,2805,3979,4629,4701],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","category-uncategorized","tag-dan-patrick","tag-greg-abbott","tag-lloyd-bentsen","tag-robert-kennedy","tag-texas-governors-office","tag-texas-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","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=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}