The Last Ride of Big Bad John

The first thing to know about John Cornyn is that everyone says he looks like a United States senator. He’s six feet four in boots, with blue eyes, a strong chin, and silvery white hair that hasn’t been brown since he was in his twenties. In 1999, two years before he even ran for the job, the Austin American-Statesman noted that “if you went to Central Casting for someone to play a United States senator, you might well pick John Cornyn.” Nearly a decade later, in Texas Monthly, Paul Burka wrote, “If you were to encounter John Cornyn at, say, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport . . . you would immediately think to yourself, ‘That man is a United States senator.’ ” Even Cornyn’s longtime opponents concede this point.…

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