I really see no point in Col. West challenging Gov. Abbott at this juncture. If West wants to run for Governor, I think he's young enough to wait another four years. But, that's his decision to make. I do not believe he has much of a chance of unseating Abbott, this time around, because Abbott is not all that vulnerable to attacks further from the right. Abbott is already pretty far right.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence