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John Cornyn Puts The Target On His Own Back

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 2nd, 2009 at 02:09 PM  | 

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This is stunning hypocrisy.

The head of Republican Senate campaign efforts said late Monday that GOPers in New York’s 23rd district “[paid] the price” for picking a nominee in a hotly contested special election behind closed doors.

But wait . . . it gets better.

NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh said on Monday that Cornyn’s tweet was directed at the local party and not at the NRCC or RNC.

So apparently, if the closed doors are located in Washington, D.C., everything is fine. If the closed doors are located in district, it is bad.

John Cornyn just expressed everything that is wrong with the Beltway Republican Establishment TM. And he has become so entrenched in it himself that he cannot see the hypocrisy.

He too went behind closed doors and picked Charlie Crist as the NRSC’s favorite in Florida and now we will do to John Cornyn and the NRSC in Florida exactly what we did in NY-23 to the NRCC and Pete Sessions — clean their clocks.

The NRCC spent $900,000.00 to get Dede Scozzafava elected and failed. John Cornyn told me months ago that the NRSC was picking Crist so the NRSC could free up money to go elsewhere.

The rational for that decision no longer holds water. If the NRSC does not stand down in Florida, Cornyn will further contribute to the party schism Pete Sessions started in NY-23.

And by the way, multiple County Chairs in NY-23 said they chose Scozzafava on the advice and input of the NRCC.

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  • MacAoidh

    …for the love of Pete, shut the hell up. Exactly what good did he think he was going to do himself running his yap like that? Has he ever heard of glass houses?

  • izoneguy

    the know it all uncle – you know – the old guy who says stupid stuff and thinks he is a genius?

    Cornyn must be taking lessons from Joe Biden – ouch that hurts….

  • bk

     

  • E Pluribus Unum

    If he cannot see himself in his own characterization of NY23, vis a vis the Crist-Rubio situation, then he’s just an idiot.

    I used to really like and respect this guy. Now I think he’s just gotten Beltway-ized.

  • danasdaddy

    for the love of Pete Sessions – he doesn’t have a whole lot of love to spare at present.

  • ZeusKingoftheGods

    Erick-

    Very interesting post indeed. I do not know that Rubio is the most conservative in the world but he’s leaps & bounds ahead of Crist. I still worry about Rubio on immigration. But Crist, I worry about on everything – including the “does he have a soul” department.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.com enrique

    …between the GOP establishment and the grassroots/rank and file? Are they completely clueless?

    I’m beginning to think I need to immediately reject whichever candidate the establishment supports because they’ll be squishy on economic issues (and others in NY-23 is any example). For instance, Crist-Rubio is a prime example. But how about the others?

    What about Democrat turned Republican Trey Grayson in Kentucky? He was outraised by (I hate to say it) Rand Paul (who seems much more sane and normal than his father). Grayson was a Clinton Elector I think. Maybe he’s good now.

    I don’t know who to trust. Just pretty sure it’s not the NRSC.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    It’s a problem with 95% of them, isn’t it? They’ve been in Washington so long they forgot what it was like to be an ordinary citizen anymore. They’re insulated from the consequences of what they impose on the rest of us.

  • peg_c

    Cannot fully express my disgust with the way NY-23 happened. I only wish one of them would call me for money!!

  • ZeusKingoftheGods

    but he is better than many especially in this Congress. I’d pick Cornyn any day over let’s say Al Franken or Barbara Boxer.

  • ZeusKingoftheGods

    I’m not saying that I don’t like Rubio. I just am not worshipping at the Rubio alter when there are issues with which I disagree with him. He needs to back away from his support for amnesty.

  • 10ksnooker

    Else they face extinction and America faces a sad future.

    RINO season has officially opened.

  • bk

    His votes are almost always good and he does as good a job as seems possible on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    And heck I don’t think anyone else has had McCain drop an F-bomb on them personally, at least none reported that I can recall.

  • bk

    or so it seems to me.

  • antisocial

    if these guys will say the following:
    “I am Sorry. I won’t do that again. Please forgive me.”

  • unfatmatt

    Don’t you mean Former Vice President Joe Biden?

  • unfatmatt

    this, TARP, and that big brother internet surveillance bill he co-sponsored, I’m ready to see him go.

  • ZeusKingoftheGods

    but there are some things that he did a long time ago that seemed to be for the purpose of tweeking conservatives. I’ll let you know.

  • ZeusKingoftheGods

    bk-

    See above. I meant to leave that as a response here to your post:

    “I’ll have to look for a bit to figure out what it was but there are some things that he did a long time ago that seemed to be for the purpose of tweeking conservatives. I?ll let you know.”

  • ceili_dancer

    I’ve never seen or heard anything along those lines.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    does not support amnesty. No offense at all by this statement, but where I usually hear this is people see the hispanic guy and think he must support amnesty.

    He was a strong voice against it and stood with Jim DeMint in opposition to both the President’s plan and the Pence plan.

  • ceili_dancer

    :)

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    Rubio repeatedly hit the highlights of the conservative agenda in a two-day Panhandle tour last week that took him from a Pensacola diner that boasts “no grits, no glory” to a wood-paneled Best Western in DeFuniak Springs. Offshore oil drilling? Check. No amnesty for illegal immigrants? Check. Limited government, gun rights and term limits? Check, check, check.

    Source

  • bs

    …considering these comments that he made about Kirk & Illinois back in March.

  • AceInTX

    And by the way, multiple County Chairs in NY-23 said they chose Scozzafava on the advice and input of the NRCC.

    I’ve been trying to find an article I read when the Scozzafava candidacy was first announced where Sessions explained their roll in her selection…can someone help me out? If it can be found…it would be very instructive compared to what’s being said now.

    It may have been posted under Erick’s name…I’m not sure but I can’t Google it and find it

  • michigan

    along with a couple of links to articles in the local newspapers from last summer when Dede was chosen by local Republican county chairpersons. It wasn’t an acknowledgment from the National Republicans.

  • GregInFla

    Marco Rubio has spoken of putting into any guest worker program agreements to get rid of citizenship-by-birth-here for children of guest workers. I have not heard anyone else mention that.

    My wife and I will be meeting Marco Rubio tomorrow afternoon at a private home meet-and-greet here and I will try to ask him about immigration and report back here tomorrow about the meeting. I’ll also ask him if he’s spoken to Jeb Bush, whose endorsement would mean a lot here for Marco, in terms of support and finances. Jeb and Marco worked together when Marco was FL House Speaker and I have gotta believe that Jeb wants to come out for Marco.

  • peg_c

    If they actually start walking the walk, I’ll do it.

  • vassar

    You should read that’s being said about the fear factor now. Go read “Vote Stealing and the Fear Factor in Public Governance” at TownHall.com. We’re for it.
    VB

  • merryj1

    …and not too bright if he thinks a conservative “can’t get elected” in Illinois when he’s talking about the seat Peter Fitzgerald held. Fitzgerald, a true conservative, had to fight his own Party for his full term; he resigned at least partially because the Illinois ‘heavies’ were still in a snit that he’d won the Primary against a hand-picked (George Ryan’s) candidate to keep her from trying a gubnatorial run opposing Ryan.

    For that matter, it was due to Party lip-diddling that Mosley-Braun took that seat in the “Year of the Woman:” The committeemen decided no one could beat Dixon, so they slated an attorney (Williamson, I think) who didn’t really want to be a senator and campaigned as though he’d rather be out fishing. Dixon lost the Primary to Mosley-Braun, and the GOP had already out-smarted itself.

    In any event, Kirk’s “Cap & Clobber” vote means he won’t get mine.

  • tomaso

    Erick: Will you ask the powers that be, if RINO Crist will support the Republican nominee if he, RINO Crist is not? I will not vote for the democrap, but I will not vote for RINO Crist, either. I will write in my own name.

  • cobrajohn

    And I totally support Jeb Hensarling, but when he endorsed Dede in NY-23, I called and being respectful, told them what I thought as a constituent of his choice to endorse in that race! I talked to his Campaign Chairman Bunni Pounds and talked to his chief of staff in his district Richard Sanders and, in turn, they talked to Jeb.
    If the legislators don’t know the mood of the people, they will follow the will of the advisors!

  • dclamage

    Too busy trying to get Liberals to like them. Too busy acting like Liberals thinking this is what the constituents want. Too busy sucking up to Democrats.

  • redpens

    in Florida if you have to choose between the democrap and Governor
    Suntan

  • soljerblue

    Greg –

    I gotta love your signature quote.

    ? A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Anyone care to change sides?

    By that standard, the Dems are true evolutionists — they’re all for killing the unborn, euthanizing the terminally ill, and rationing health care to the elderly. So what if they let a few sand fleas, dodo birds, snail darters and polar bears live out their lives in peace. You gotta compromise somewhere. ;-)

  • GregInFla

    Marco covered this topic at a gathering this afternoon that I was very fortunate to have attended. Marco’s position is very similar to Fred Thompson’s attrition policy. First, illegals cannot be given citizenship. Steps to take are:

    (1) Secure the borders. Without this, nothing done means anything. It is an immigration and a security requirement.
    (2) Fix the current Visa system. Many people here illegally came here legally, and overstayed their Visas. The US legal system is not handling this situation well. Enforce laws on companies for status checks to keep illegals from getting jobs.
    (3) Come up with a productive immigration policy. The illegals will leave on their own. (You cannot round up 11 million illegals without becoming a police state.)

    Marco used a great example of the shortcomings of current policy: a person who throws a baseball 94 mph has better chance of getting into the US than a scientist curing cancer. I’ll have more elsewhere later.

  • GregInFla

    If its Meeks vs. Crist. Rush is a qualified, full-time resident.

  • GregInFla

    That is an original perspective of mine. I have yet to debate it with an environmentalist evolution believer but it does seem like a contradiction to me. A funny situation was when all these scientists (which means evolution-believers) were trying to get this humpback whale back into the Pacific Ocean when it went up the Sacramento River in California. This animal was trying very hard to evolve into a land or fresh water creature, and these folks were pushing/guiding it back where it came from.