{"id":111801,"date":"2025-08-25T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111801"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:37:14","slug":"111801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111801","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

John Cornyn learns not to mess with Texas<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t mess with Texas\u201d is a homespun\u00a0aphorism that expresses a genuine sentiment. Texans, and to a\u00a0slightly lesser degree, Wyomingites, are independent cusses. They\u2019re proud of their states and their beliefs, and pushed too far\u00a0don\u2019t whine about why government isn\u2019t making things right. They handle it themselves and vote the useless weasels out at the next electoral opportunity.<\/p>\n

One such weasel is long-serving Texas Senator John Cornyn. Once thought a reliable Republican, he forgot which state he represents and stepped on a known Texas land mine:\u00a0gun control. In Texas, weakness on the Second Amendment and cruelty to animals are two things among many guaranteed to provoke political death. Cornyn was thought among the most untouchable politicians in Texas until he went wobbly during the Biden\u2019s Handler\u2019s years and crossed the aisle to pass a 2022 gun control bill, the \u201cBipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA).\u201d Cornyn wasn\u2019t the only line crosser, but he crossed a Texas line, which Texans don\u2019t forget or forgive. The Garland DOJ\u00a0bragged about it in 2024:<\/a><\/p>\n

June 25 marks the second anniversary of the enactment of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) \u2013 a landmark law focused on reducing and protecting communities from gun violence. The Justice Department has pursued a cross-department approach with the new tools provided in BSCA, from enhanced background checks to grantmaking.<\/p>\n

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Accordingly, Cornyn is being primaried by Texas AG Ken Paxton, who has been leading Cornyn in the polls. As one might imagine, the media are\u00a0doing all they\u00a0can to try to negate Paxton\u2019s lead. Both are Republicans,\u00a0but they hate Paxton more:<\/a><\/p>\n

The TSU poll shows Paxton leading Cornyn in a two-person Republican primary race by 5 percentage points. A similar\u00a0poll conducted by TSU in May<\/a>\u00a0found Paxton leading by 9 percentage points.<\/p>\n

“Cornyn has substantially narrowed the gap both related to our prior surveys but especially related to many of the surveys that were circulating earlier in the summer that had him down by 10, 15, 20 points or so,” said Mark Jones, a Rice University political scientist who co-directed the study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paxton has a variety of personal and professional issues dogging him, but that anyone could be so far ahead of Cornyn is a reflection of how ticked off Texans are. This kind of politically convenient memory lapse isn\u2019t helping:<\/p>\n

Cornyn apparently forgot the Internet, including his own website, is forever:<\/p>\n

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Shooting News Weekly\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>headline is pertinent:<\/a>\u00a0 “Is John Cornyn Cognitively Impaired Or Is He Just Lying About His Role in Passing Biden\u2019s Gun Control Bill?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t vouch for cognitive impairment, but lying? As Texans might say: yup. They\u2019re not fond of that either.<\/p>\n

Texas Senator John Cornyn shocked\u00a0gun\u00a0owners across the country this week after\u00a0denying<\/a>\u00a0any involvement in helping pass Biden\u2019s signature gun control bill\u2014the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA)\u2014despite his well-documented leadership role in getting it across the finish line in 2022. [skip]<\/p>\n

The backlash was immediate and fierce.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps at 73, Cornyn is starting to share more than just policy blunders with Biden,\u201d said TXGR President Chris McNutt. \u201cThat creeping forgetfulness might explain why he\u2019s also in denial about those abysmal polls showing AG Paxton wiping the floor with him. Texas Gun Rights is happy to remind Cornyn \u2014 and all pro-gun Texans \u2014 of his blunders.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just how mad are Texans at Cornyn?\u00a0\u00a0This mad:<\/p>\n

Cornyn was booed by more than 8,000 delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP convention, and now faces\u00a0rising grassroots opposition<\/a>\u00a0heading into the 2026 Republican primary. Both Texas Gun Rights PAC and National Association for Gun Rights PAC have already endorsed Paxton for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun owners don\u2019t forget betrayal,\u201d said McNutt. \u201cAnd they\u2019re ready to make sure Cornyn never forgets 2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plenty can happen between now and the mid-terms, but Cornyn damned well knows how badly he screwed up and he\u2019s fiercely backpedaling, trying to look like a solid Republican. Texans aren\u2019t going to forget, and it looks like they\u2019re not in a forgiving mood. If Trump endorses Paxton, Cornyn is likely toast and it will be his own fault.<\/p>\n

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John Cornyn learns not to mess with Texas \u201cDon\u2019t mess with Texas\u201d is a homespun\u00a0aphorism that expresses a genuine sentiment. Texans, and to a\u00a0slightly lesser degree, Wyomingites, are independent cusses. They\u2019re proud of their states and their beliefs, and pushed too far\u00a0don\u2019t whine about why government isn\u2019t making things right. They handle it themselves and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,95,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-mendacity","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111802,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111801\/revisions\/111802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}