After a week of speculation amid effort to recruit David Barton to launch a primary challenge in Texas against Senator John Cornyn, Barton appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program today to announce his decision.

After telling Beck that he had done polling and consulted with trusted advisers, Barton announced even though he believes that it would be a winnable race, he has concluded that “the time is just not right for me.”

But there remains a glimmer of hope, because when Beck asked Barton if he might make a Senate run at some point in the future, Barton said “that’s definitely a possibility, yes sir”:

Barton issued an official statement to The Blaze: