Kris Banks

A friendly election-day word to the Bush/Rove/Cornyn RINO Republicans who’ve refuse to support Paxton, French, et al., and perhaps even plan to vote for James Talarico: You will never have a seat at the political table in Texas again. If Ken Paxton wins, your sandbagging won’t be forgotten. The party will shift right, putting the desires of normal native Texans over your globalist corporate agenda, over your cheap Mexican illegal and Indian H1-B workforces and California liberal-locust transplants. Your “natural conservative” demographics that somehow always vote D 3-to-1 will migrate elsewhere. You will not be invited to share governance in this conservative, Texan-first renaissance. If Talarico and Hinojosa win, that sandbagging will be considered treason. The red-green socialist-Islamic alliance will thank you for delivering victory, then cause you to suffer the consequences of far-left policy just like the rest of us. The Democrats will not welcome you; the remnants of the Republican party will despise you. You could’ve abided by the “party unity” you’ve demanded for two decades, as we’ve held our noses and voted for John Cornyn, the most useless US Senator in Texas history. You did not. Now it’s too late. There will be no Cornyn/Bush RINO resurgence either way. Instead of tolerating a morally flawed, politically conservative Paxton for six years, then running a more virtuous candidate in 2032, you will be forever in the wilderness. We asked you to play ball. You went home in a tantrum instead. Now you don’t get to play the game anymore, ever. Sorry.