This should come as no surprise, and as someone pointed out, she's got plans to run for Texas Governor. In fact, she probably helped her the Texas GOP hold remarkably strongly together in the face of the Democratic storm that swept much of the nation in 2006.

She was originally planning on challenging Governor Rick Perry in the GOP gubernatorial primary but bowed out and ran for re-election instead, because she wanted to protect the party. She deserves commendation for that, because Governor Perry was re-elected and the GOP continued its dramatatic stranglehold on the Texas government.

As for Senator Cornyn, I think it would exceedingly foolish to think that he will lose in 2008. Don't forget that, in spite many spirited left-wing attempts, Texans haven't elected a Democrat statewide since the mid-1990s and it's hard to imagine that a solid senator like Cornyn (who has avoided becoming a John McCain or Lindsey Graham) would be defeated by a Hispanic Democrat like Rick Noriega much the way Tony Sanchez and Ron Kirk did in 2002. I remember how the Dems lay prostrate before these guys and called them the 'Dream Team' and then both lost in staggering landslides to Perry and Cornyn.

Come 2012, there's a good chance that lieutenant-Governor David Dewhurst and Attorney General Greg Abbott (both re-elected by landslide margins in 2006) will be interested in running for the US Senate seat. The truth is that there are very few Dems who have any chance of winning statewide in Texas and thank the precious Lord for that.