"Cowboy" Cornyn rides again

Let's look at the advertisement that Texas Senator John Cornyn has put out.



Most Senators really shouldn't play dress up, but I have seen no indication that Cornyn has enough good sense to recognize that. Goldwater had the face, head and history to get away with it, as did St. Ronnie. Cornyn doesn't. And while I liked Johnny Cash music, Johnny Cash was from a very different era. But then, so is Cornyn.

Apparently Cornyn's opponent, Rick Noriega, found Cornyn's ad as silly and tasteless as I did. Here's Rick's response.



While Cornyn's ad is silly and tasteless, it is also very very representative of John Cornyn as a Senator and as a person. Could "Texans for John Cornyn" be an attack group attacking John Cornyn? If so, it really worked.

Oh. MY. God! Sen. Cornyn in a cowboy hat!

I really don't know which is sillier. This commercial or John Cornyn wearing a cowboy hat.



Keep always in mind that this is the kind of candidate that the Texas Republican Party has fielded since the conservative southern Baptists and the Evangelists took over the Texas Republican party a little over two decades ago.

Wilson's excuse for calling US Atty does not hold up.

New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson (NM 01 - R) offered her excuse for why she called the United States Attorney for New Mexico David C. Iglesias just before the November election. She say it was a "heads up" to let him know that she had gotten complaints that he had "bottled up" the corruption investigation of the New Mexico State Democrats. This was just prior to the November 2006 election, when Rep. Wilson was considered one of the most endangered Republican Congresspersons running. She won by only 826 votes.

Talking Points Memo is following this quite closely and has a number of articles on both Heather Wilson and Sen. Pete Domenici (NM - R) in this case.

The Senate is holding hearing on the case of the eight fired US Attorneys tomorrow morning. Surprisingly, Sen. John Cornyn (TX - R), the ranking minority member of the Senate Ethics Committee and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to miss the hearing tomorrow. Cornyn was expected to be one of the strongest defenders of the Bush White House and its Attorney General.