To a great extent I agree with you. Then I read on to others piling on. All I can say is he made a mistake. Treat him like one of your children, chew him out,--- but disowning him is a little harsh. There is no bigger supporter of the second amendment and the values this group espouses, Calling him dumb and stupid, which is obviously not true, gets one nowhere. Calling him a self serving politician is not seemly when in fact most of us conduct our actions according to what is in our own interests. A US senator represents a state mainly with respect to formulating legislation and could do little with respect to emergency management. Politicians that try in order to get their photos in the paper are the "Phonies". Anyone piling on, gentlemen, may be helping to elect a replacement , who with the changing demographics in Texas could be an anti-gun liberal. When your child screws up and your idiot neighbors get all over him straighten his butt out, but tell his criticizers' you will handle it. You wouldn't sell him to the wolves.How dumb, how tone-deaf can someone be? He may have just cost himself reelection. How in the world does someone leave his post in the middle of a natural disaster, particularly for Mexico? His apologies don’t really ring true to my ears. He got busted. And he probably should have.