Texas tea party seeks Ted Cruz 2.0: David Barton

[douglas9]

Texas tea party activists eager to send another firebrand in the mold of Ted Cruz to the Senate have launched a movement to draft evangelical historian David Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.

Barton, who hosts a daily radio broadcast, has wide name recognition and respect on the religious right as a Constitutional scholar dedicated to restoring the America the Founding Fathers envisioned, though his scholarship on that point has been widely discredited in the world of academia.

Political analysts doubt he could take down a candidate as well-funded, well-known and widely endorsed as Cornyn. But they’re not willing to count out an insurgent from the right — not after watching Cruz come from nowhere two years ago. Barton has deep political roots, having spent nearly a decade as vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party. He is a skilled orator. And he’s got the stagecraft down pat: He travels the country to deliver rousing tributes to patriotism, often in red, white and blue Western shirts.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/texas-tea-party-david-barton-ted-cruz-99278.html

[Bolo Boffin]

1. OMG OMG OMG

I wish I could say pleasepleaseplease, but knowing these crazy Republican voters in Texas, Dave might win. And I don't want to give that knucklehead the benefit of incumbency.

But on the other hand, if he won the primary and we got the next Castro twin - whose turn is it? Julian, right, the current mayor of San Antonio - on the Democratic side, could Dave Barton pull off a Sharron Angle? Hmmmmmmmmm....

[gopiscrap]

2. Jesus Christ that's all we need.

[Gothmog]

3. According to Juanita Jean, Barton thinks that abortion causes global warming

Barton is an idiot and Juanita Jean is going to have fun pointing out some of the crazy crap that comes from this idiot http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/11/05/yes-and-dancin-causes-pneumonia/

Oh sweet Texas, I love yew.

We have a guy here named David Barton who you are fixin’ to get to know pretty well. He’s threatening to be the Tea Party candidate against Texas Senator John Cornyn because the only thing worse than a black man in the White House is a moderate RINO.

Barton has found the cause of global warming.

Abortion.

[Gothmog]

4. David Barton is not running

I was sad to see that David Barton decided not to run