Hancock-Smith, SD9 Senate, How I voted and why.

I voted early in the Republican primary.  In the Texas Senate District 9 race I voted for Kelly Hancock.

Both candidates are decent, principled conservatives.  However, Kelly is the more conservative of the two. He is an instinctive conservative.  He will author, sponsor, and work for conservative legislation.

Todd Smith is a reliable vote for any conservative legislation that comes across his desk. the operative phrase here is "comes across his desk", Todd cannot be relied on to initiate conservative legislation.

Todd's brand of conservatism has lost and will continue to lose ground to the Left.  The Left, the people who think collective solutions from the government are the end-all and be-all of fixing things, solving our problems.  The Left, the ones who think that communism just may be a good idea.  The Left, the ones who fervently believe that socialism is a good idea.  The Left, the ones who are so ignorant of history they don't realize that collective solutions to society's problems -socialism, communism, Leftism in general- have been responsible for more misery, and more deaths of innocent people than any other ideology in the last hundred twenty years.

If conservatism was likened to a thermometer, Kelly would be at 98°, and Todd would be at 72°.  Both temperatures are preferable to the Left's temperature of 30°, but Kelly's is higher than Todd's.  This is why I voted for him.

If you want to see the temperature of conservative legislation coming out of the state capital go up, then vote for Kelly Hancock.