Stockman, seen here placing his name into the Goblet of True Conservatism
It looks like Steve Stockman will not have conservative organizations throwing money at him in his quest to oust Senator John Freaking Cornyn for
insufficient conservatism:
[A]lready, some of the country’s most prominent conservative organizations have signaled that Stockman will likely have to go it alone against Cornyn. With less than three months until primary day and only $32,000 in Stockman’s campaign account (Cornyn has nearly $7 million on hand), several top conservative strategists privately suggested the race was a fool’s errand – or, more kindly, a quixotic effort that Stockman is welcome to pursue on his own.
Even the grassroots is wary:
“I would want to see Stockman vetted well so we don’t have an ‘oops’ moment,” said Toby Marie Walker, a Cornyn critic who heads the Waco Tea Party.
Really, now? Steve Stockman is a walking oops moment, so that horse has left the barn. Still, when the head of the Waco Tea Party thinks you might be too nutty for them that's probably less a sign that your campaign is in trouble and more a sign that somebody, somewhere, ought to have staged an intervention for you at some point.
All indications are that Stockman filed for the race as a spur of the moment thing, perhaps—as they say in Toronto—in one of his drunken stupors. Still, the prospect of watching John Cornyn and Steve Stockman try to outflank each other on the right? Wow.