Virginia, Texas, and Iowa

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VIRGINIA, TEXAS, AND IOWA​

by Dave Funk | May 29, 2026 | 0 comments

Events in Virginia, Texas, and Iowa show us that elections have consequences, in ways we might not initially notice.

It’s what I wrote about years ago “Stud Dog Effect”; ”Stud dogs, despite Hollywood best efforts to convince us otherwise, have no comprehension whatsoever of the connection between the act of mating and the birth of the puppies. Interestingly, it’s been my observation that almost all liberals, much like stud dogs, cannot equate the act of voting with the policies those same politicians that they have elected, implement.”

VIRGINIA​

Virginia elected a hard leftist ex-CIA employee to be its Governor. She campaigned as a moderate and then took two immediate actions. The first was to disenfranchise voters by redrawing Virginia’s Congressional Districts to change from a 6D-5R to an immediate 10D-1R in the US Congress. Fortunately, the Virginia State Supreme Court struck that unconstitutional action down within days of the rigged election.

The Governor and her Democratic Majority in the State Legislature during the same period passed sweeping, unconstitutional gun control bills, effectively outlawing semi-automatic firearms. Fortunately, several lawsuits have been filed across the Commonwealth to prevent those laws from being enforced while the law is litigated. Mark A. Smith over at the Four Boxes Diner does an excellent short video on why the Virginia Constitution clearly protects exactly the types of arms that the dangerous anti-gun quacks in Virginia are trying to outlaw.

Across the Commonwealth, local County Attorneys and Sheriffs are refusing to enforce the bans under their prosecutorial discretion. Of course, the leftists are screaming about that, yet they say nothing about criminals being released in other parts of the state after committing real rapes, robberies, and murders.

TEXAS​

Senator John Cornyn has been defeated in his run-off with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton despite the National Republican Senatorial Committee dropping nearly $100 Million dollars to protect the twenty-four-year incumbent with an anti-gun record. Attorney Jeff Childers at his Coffee & Covid pointed out some important points in his Substack post:

“…The most amazing part of this stunning spectacle was the money. During the campaign, Paxton complained that Cornyn and the national GOP establishment outspent him ten-to-one. This sounds like standard political whining, but in this case, it was actually true.

According to public records, a staggering $128 million was spent on primary advertisements alone. Of that mountain of cash, $92 million went to support Cornyn.

Pause briefly and contemplate that number. Ninety-two million dollars. You could use that kind of money to buy a fleet of helicopters, a private island, or even maybe even three bags of groceries at Publix. The National Republican Party did everything short of physically dragging voters into the booths and holding their hands over the “Cornyn” button.

And yet, it was a total wipeout. It turns out that when voters are thoroughly sick of you, you can spend enough money to fund a small space program, and they will still look at your expensive streaming commercial and say, “That is a very nice high-definition video of a man I never want to see again.”

Of course, we should not be too hard on the GOP establishment. The establishment runs on very simple, logical rules designed by Deeply Serious People.

Rule 1: Electability. The Logic: Whoever has a proven record of winning general elections must be supported at all costs. The Reality: This works great until voters realize “electability” just means “has been sitting in the same chair since the Clinton administration.”

Rule 2: Fundraising. The Logic: Whoever can vacuum up the most cash from corporate donors is the strongest candidate. The Reality: This works great until you realize corporate donors do not actually vote, and actual voters are tired of being treated like Macy’s mannequins.

Admittedly, this system prevents nepotism and favoritism, and it stops the party from doing something incredibly stupid, like, oh, I don’t know, sliding in a cackling replacement candidate for president in the middle of the night while voters are sleeping. (Not that anyone would ever do that.)

But the system has a flaw: it assumes highly motivated primary voters have the memory of Dory from Finding Nemo…” Emphasis in the last sentence is mine.

Childers goes on to point out in his Substack post that Cornyn was essentially a “cardboard cutout” of a Senator, not really representing the will of the voters of Texas. Instead, as I’ve said for years, he is a “Senator, Inc.”

LESSON FOR IOWA​

We face a similar problem here in Iowa with both a Senatorial and Gubernatorial primary election in just a few days. Make sure your vote goes for an actual pro-gun candidate and not just someone who talks a good talk during the election cycle, then turns their back on us when it matters. A soon-retiring U.S. Senator comes to mind and her support for the “SAFE Act”, the worst anti-gun legislation to pass since 1994.

IFC has lots of candidate profiles and interviews over at our website, focusing on the Second Amendment. Go to our website www.iowafc.org and Search “candidate” — you’ll have a ton of information!

Don’t be a Stud Dog Voter, unable to connect the relationship between an act and its consequences, and don’t let big money influence your vote in the primary or the general election.

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[Alan]

A lot to unpack there! Elections always seem to show how messaging and outcomes don’t always line up the way people expect.