Steve Stockman just may be the lamest, laziest grifter in the history of the United States
Good Riddance to Steve Stockman, the Grifter Congressman Who Ran for Senate
The Texas Republican practically bilked his donors by running the most unserious campaign in recent American history.
Tuesday night will mark the end of one of the most stunningly dishonest political campaigns in American history: that of Steve Stockman for Senate. Stockman’s campaign seemed to violate every ethical and social norm in politics. Usually, when political campaigns violate the rules, it is because of their lust to win. Stockman seemingly never cared about winning the Republican nomination from Senator John Cornyn. Instead, the entire campaign came across as a strange grift; a con performed by a fifth rate Harold Hill who somehow thought that the Tea Party made a better racket than leading a boys band. Stockman, who served one term in the House in the mid 1990s before returning to Congress in 2012, has gained attention for his Twitter trolling and strange publicity stunts in office but precious little else.
It was easy to portray Stockman’s campaign as just some kind of hustle or strange performance art—-the marriage of Andy Kaufman and Michele Bachmann. The Texas congressman seemed to be invisible on the campaign trail… and everywhere else. At one point, he hadn’t made a public appearance for weeks while his staff refused to respond to basic inquiries. Instead, the Texas congressman limited his interactions to the public to ghostwritten tweets by his communications director and blast emails attacking Cornyn in BIG CAPITOL LETTERS.
But while Stockman’s attacks on Cornyn were spectacularly over-the-top——it’s one thing for a Tea Partier to attack the No. 2 Republican in the Senate as an insufficiently conservative member of the establishment but constantly calling Cornyn “a liberal” lent itself to parody. But, compared to most of the statements coming from the Texas congressman’s campaign, it’s relatively truthful. After all, it’s not a bald-faced lie.
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every where I go on the tubes I get little pop up ads with his mug....