The Establishment’s Near Sexual Advances on Ted Cruz Are About to Begin
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 1st at 04:47 AM |
“[T]he Perry-Dewhurst shared campaign team spent $50 million in the past year to ruin the reputations of Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. That’s just sad.” It turned into an atrociously nasty runoff. The same crew who failed Governor Rick Perry’s Presidential bid has now also sunk David Dewhurst’s bid for the Senate and spent tens of millions of dollars in the process. Along the way | Read More »
Under the Radar: Erin DeLullo
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 31st at 11:33 PM |
The first time I met Ken Cuccinelli it was because of the persistence of a lady named Erin DeLullo. She would not leave me alone. She, a long time friend and wife of the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis (he’d totally write about her if he hadn’t put a ring on her finger then got her pregnant. After marriage of course), found out I was headed | Read More »
Counting Chickens in Texas
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 31st at 04:46 AM |
Some friends in Texas are privately worried about Ted Cruz. The polls are very close. David Dewhurst has vastly outspent him. There is a huge turnout happening in random places in Texas — lots of people showing up in the runoff who do not normally vote in runoffs, let alone in Republican primaries. That could be a sign that people are really fired up for | Read More »
Dewhurst in B Minor
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 27th at 10:00 AM |
Our own Ben Howe put this together for the Ted Cruz campaign in Texas. It is must see TV. By the way, Ben won’t brag on himself, but he’s available for hire.
Is David Dewhurst a Conservative? Of Course Not.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 26th at 05:57 PM |
But don’t tell that to DC’s chattering class who would have you believe there isn’t any difference between Dewhurst and Ted Cruz. They claim this campaign is just about which kind of “conservative” we will get in Washington — a “veteran conservative legislator” (read: guy who make nice with leadership), or a new member of the “doesn’t-play-well-with-others” caucus. It is “nonsense,” according to George Will | Read More »
The Establishment Hates Ted Cruz, You and Me
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 18th at 04:30 PM |
The most difficult thing to explain to your average Republican voter is how people like David Dewhurst, Charlie Crist and all the establishment, ladder-climbing, butt-kissing, near permanent political staff flacks who grow up to be lobbyists they put around them literally hate you, me, and conservative fighters like Ted Cruz. And newsflash — it’s not just Washington, but in state capitols throughout America, just like | Read More »
Ted Cruz Outraises David Dewhurst. Dewhurst Reponds By Accusing Cruz of Supporting Pedophiles.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 17th at 04:46 AM |
“It’s akin to saying David Dewhurst is a kid toucher because kissed a baby on the campaign trail. ” I have always had a lot of respect for the guys who are running David Dewhurst’s campaign, but I’m starting to see now why Rick Perry had no chance of getting elected President. The same team running Dewhurst’s campaign ran Perry’s Presidential campaign and has stooped | Read More »
New Poll Has Ted Cruz Up. Conservatives Need to Pony Up Fast. [UPDATED]
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 12th at 12:35 PM |
A brand new poll has Ted Cruz ahead of David Dewhurst. The poll was conducted by Fred Wenzel. He also got the Indiana and Nebraska primaries right. Here’s the problem. The primary is three weeks away. Dewhurst has millions of dollars in advantage over Cruz. Conservatives need to pony up. Club For Growth stepped up with a new ad you can see below. It is | Read More »
David Dewhurst’s Media Consultants Attack Ted Cruz and RedState *at* RedState
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 11th at 01:34 PM |
This is amazingly pathetic. David Dewhurst’s campaign gets his state government website altered to cover up his lying about his amnesty position. What happens? His media consultants invade RedState to accuse Ted Cruz of supporting Chicoms and attack RedState for supporting Cruz. In fact, this is not the first time Dewhurst’s media consultants have done this. Using the user name “Liberty Patriot,” Dewhurst’s consultants have | Read More »
David Dewhurst Campaign Alters Taxpayer Funded Website to Cover Up Past Support for Amnesty.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 11th at 11:39 AM |
Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s Senate campaign might have just crossed a line it should not have crossed. Who else would be behind the Lt. Governor’s taxpayer funded website for his Lieutenant Governor’s Office suddenly deleting the transcript of a speech proving David Dewhurst has been lying about his position on illegal aliens? The speech is . . . well . . . it is | Read More »
Newsflash – Texas State Senators “Decide” to Support Dewhurst over Cruz
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 9th at 05:29 PM |
For a guy who says he will go to Washington as a “conservative” and fight against the establishment, it sure is curious to see Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst lining up the Texas establishment to defend him in his race for U.S. Senate against the actual conservative, Ted Cruz. Dewhurst has the support of very few people outside of Austin. Think about it. His most | Read More »
Freedom’s Slate
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 5th at 04:46 AM |
On this Independence Day, it is time to focus on improving the crop of Republican congressmen by examining some of the remaining Republican primaries. Want the GOP to stand up to Barack Obama? Tired of the GOP cutting deals? Want to make sure the GOP doesn’t back out of full and complete repeal of Obamacare if they sweep in November? Then you absolutely must support | Read More »
Tags:
Adam Hasner,
Arizona,
Chauncey Goss,
Clark Durant,
Dave Schwiekert,
Eric Hovde,
Florida,
Jack Hoogendyk,
Jeff Flake,
Jeff Landry,
Kerry Bentivolio,
Louisiana,
Mark Neuman,
Mark Neumann,
Matt Salmon,
Michigan,
North Carolina,
Ron DeSantis,
Ron Gould,
Sandy Adams,
Scott Keadle,
Ted Cruz,
Texas,
Wisconsin
Freedom’s Slate: Who to Support to Give the GOP Some Testicular Fortitude
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 4th at 06:30 AM |
On this Independence Day, it is time to focus on improving the crop of Republican congressmen by examining some of the remaining Republican primaries. Want the GOP to stand up to Barack Obama? Tired of the GOP cutting deals? Want to make sure the GOP doesn’t back out of full and complete repeal of Obamacare if they sweep in November? Then you absolutely must support | Read More »
Tags:
Adam Hasner,
Arizona,
Chauncey Goss,
Clark Durant,
Dave Schwiekert,
Florida,
Jack Hoogendyk,
Jeff Landry,
Kerry Bentivolio,
Louisiana,
Mark Neuman,
Matt Salmon,
Michigan,
North Carolina,
Ron DeSantis,
Ron Gould,
Sandy Adams,
Scott Keadle,
Ted Cruz,
Texas,
Wisconsin
The Truth. It Hurts.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 3rd at 04:46 AM |
Mitch McConnell is in the headlines again for saying the odds are against those wanting repeal of Obamacare. “[I]t’s a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place,” he said in part. For once, let’s give McConnell the benefit of the doubt and suggest he is talking about the present Congress, not the next Congress, though in actual | Read More »
The Repeal Pledge: Another Reason to Support Ted Cruz
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 28th at 03:04 PM |
Today the United States Supreme Court left Obamacare in tact. That means every Republican Primary left now matters even more significantly. In Texas, Ted Cruz is in a runoff with David Dewhurst. Only Ted Cruz has sided the repeal pledge pledging to repeal Obamacare. David Dewhurst has not. These differences matter. Go support Ted Cruz right now. We’ll need every vote we can muster in | Read More »
The White House Is Not Enough
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 18th at 04:46 AM |
Consider this Wall Street Journal editorial your must read of the day. It highlights why adding conservatives to the United States Senate is so important. This past week, Republican in the Senate, including Mitch McConnell’s leadership picks, sat idly by saying nothing while the Senate Democrats pushed forward the nomination of Andrew Hurwitz, who helped formulate the reasoning behind Roe v. Wade while a law | Read More »
The Extraordinary Nature of the Texas Runoff
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 30th at 08:59 AM |
It is hard to overstate just how extraordinary Ted Cruz’s underdog entry into the Texas runoff is and just how the odds are still stacked against him unless conservatives rally quickly with lots of money. David Dewhurst has been Lt. Governor of Texas for more than a decade. He has massive name ID throughout the state. Ted Cruz started this race with a three or | Read More »
Time to do What We Can For Ted Cruz
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 30th at 04:46 AM |
David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz are in a runoff in Texas. Cruz has long odds in the runoff, given the margin of Dewhurst’s victory. But it is very doable. Conservatives across the country, however, must unite today. This race must be a national priority for each and every conservative. It is not enough to pray for Ted Cruz, though that helps tremendously. We must put | Read More »
Ted Cruz Responds to DewCrist’s . . . Dewhurst’s Lies
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 25th at 04:48 PM |
Ted Cruz is firing back at David DewCrist.
From the Mail Bag
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 25th at 10:14 AM |
Ahhh . . . . this is all it said: From: “Mike Leary” varmjl@verizon.net Subject: f*ck ted cruz, and f*ck you Date: May 25, 2012 10:12:06 AM EDT To: contact@redstate.com Mike, you stay classy.