Vote for candidates who will advance conservatism in office
Election frustrations are manifold but the most notable above all others for me is this: People want to vote for someone they think they like and do not want to vote for someone they think they do not like. I say “think” because I am talking about candidates people may have met but do not actually know any more than they know the person they met while standing in a buffet line and with whom they exchanged simple pleasantries.
On Pratt on Texas I have reminded voters repeatedly, election after election, that you are not electing someone to become your friend with whom you will meet for coffee or a beer several times a week. You are voting to elect a representative to cast votes on your behalf in local, state, or federal government – so why should it matter that you click with the personality of the person?
You are voting to elect a representative to cast votes on your behalf in local, state, or federal government – so why should it matter that you click with the personality of the person?
What matters most about a candidate is this: Which candidate is most likely to cast votes, or govern, in a way that agrees with your philosophies of government and of right and wrong?
We are not electing people to be our buddy but people to steer the ship of state in the right direction. Complaining about the choices on the ballot is a waste of time and energy because those are the choices and one for each office on the ballot will be elected and then hold the power loaned them by the voters to act in ways that can help, or hurt, all of us.
Anyone who has listened to Pratt on Texas over the last two decades knows that my fiercest criticism has been directed toward members of my party, the Republican Party. That, however, is because we are to have the highest expectations for our own and thus have a responsibility to keep them in line first and foremost. It is similar to how a parent’s responsibility is first to those in his own household over those in the community at large.
Sadly, in every election there are always people who make a spectacle of trying to build themselves up in the public mind by advertising how they can’t support a perfectly fine nominee, fine in the sense of sharing a record compatible with their party’s platform, because they personally dislike the personality of that nominee or have some personal axe to grind.
In addition to putting self ahead of the state’s or nation’s good, this position is folly of the highest order in most cases. It simply makes no sense to aid the election of another candidate, who is dedicated to opposing everything you believe and will vote to implement policies you find harmful, just because you don’t like something about the candidate who does share most of your political outlook.
vote for candidates who will advance a more conservative agenda – even if they are a person with whom you’d never want to sit and watch a ball game.
The Republican Party has a plethora of these “I’m better than everyone because I won’t support the nominee of GOP voters” types. Their peacocking gets outsized coverage because a Democrat leaning media luxuriates in such stories that serve its purpose of defeating conservatives and Republicans at every turn.
On the Texas 2026 General Election ballot, from proven conservative warrior Ken Paxton at the top to the lowest local office on your ballot, there is not a person who chose Democratic Party affiliation who would cast legislative votes better, or govern with a better philosophy, than the Republican on the ballot no matter how much you may like or dislike the person.
In 2026, if you vote for a Democrat or fail to support a Republican in a tight race, you are voting to end the Texas Miracle; begin the process in Texas of what happened to California, Illinois, New York, and other once leading, wealth creating states. Plus you would be voting to further implement Marxist socialism, Critical Race Theory, D.E.I., and a very long list of horrible things that include many of the immoral perversions today’s Democrats unabashedly champion.
Go and vote. And vote for candidates who will advance a more conservative agenda – even if they are a person with whom you’d never want to sit and watch a ball game.
Vote for those who will advance conservatism, not for whom you think you like
Vote for candidates who will advance conservatism in office
On Pratt on Texas I have reminded voters repeatedly, election after election, that you are not electing someone to become your friend with whom you will meet for coffee or a beer several times a week. You are voting to elect a representative to cast votes on your behalf in local, state, or federal government – so why should it matter that you click with the personality of the person?
You are voting to elect a representative to cast votes on your behalf in local, state, or federal government – so why should it matter that you click with the personality of the person?
What matters most about a candidate is this: Which candidate is most likely to cast votes, or govern, in a way that agrees with your philosophies of government and of right and wrong?
We are not electing people to be our buddy but people to steer the ship of state in the right direction. Complaining about the choices on the ballot is a waste of time and energy because those are the choices and one for each office on the ballot will be elected and then hold the power loaned them by the voters to act in ways that can help, or hurt, all of us.
Anyone who has listened to Pratt on Texas over the last two decades knows that my fiercest criticism has been directed toward members of my party, the Republican Party. That, however, is because we are to have the highest expectations for our own and thus have a responsibility to keep them in line first and foremost. It is similar to how a parent’s responsibility is first to those in his own household over those in the community at large.
Sadly, in every election there are always people who make a spectacle of trying to build themselves up in the public mind by advertising how they can’t support a perfectly fine nominee, fine in the sense of sharing a record compatible with their party’s platform, because they personally dislike the personality of that nominee or have some personal axe to grind.
In addition to putting self ahead of the state’s or nation’s good, this position is folly of the highest order in most cases. It simply makes no sense to aid the election of another candidate, who is dedicated to opposing everything you believe and will vote to implement policies you find harmful, just because you don’t like something about the candidate who does share most of your political outlook.
vote for candidates who will advance a more conservative agenda – even if they are a person with whom you’d never want to sit and watch a ball game.
The Republican Party has a plethora of these “I’m better than everyone because I won’t support the nominee of GOP voters” types. Their peacocking gets outsized coverage because a Democrat leaning media luxuriates in such stories that serve its purpose of defeating conservatives and Republicans at every turn.
On the Texas 2026 General Election ballot, from proven conservative warrior Ken Paxton at the top to the lowest local office on your ballot, there is not a person who chose Democratic Party affiliation who would cast legislative votes better, or govern with a better philosophy, than the Republican on the ballot no matter how much you may like or dislike the person.
In 2026, if you vote for a Democrat or fail to support a Republican in a tight race, you are voting to end the Texas Miracle; begin the process in Texas of what happened to California, Illinois, New York, and other once leading, wealth creating states. Plus you would be voting to further implement Marxist socialism, Critical Race Theory, D.E.I., and a very long list of horrible things that include many of the immoral perversions today’s Democrats unabashedly champion.
Go and vote. And vote for candidates who will advance a more conservative agenda – even if they are a person with whom you’d never want to sit and watch a ball game.