This is not a real surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Texas politics. The Texas Republican Party is firmly in the control of the teabagger extremists -- and the delegates to their state convention verified that by choosing right-wing extremist Ted Cruz as their runaway favorite for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. No one else even came close in the convention's straw poll of delegates.
This is not a real surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Texas politics. The Texas Republican Party is firmly in the control of the teabagger extremists -- and the delegates to their state convention verified that by choosing right-wing extremist Ted Cruz as their runaway favorite for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. No one else even came close in the convention's straw poll of delegates.