Whoop! There It Is!
I have something for you to look at.
Okay, okay, that’s assuming that Trump is still the nominee in 2020, but even if not, he’s a sinker the size of Dallas tied around every Republican candidate in the state.
Chris Homan is a GOP activist in Houston …
“Because of what happened organically on the Democrat side, Republicans in Texas have a large organizational gap that exists. In 2018, we simply did not have the kind of people and activists at the scale the Democrats enjoyed. This is a significant advantage the Democrats have going into this cycle,” Homan said.
Yo Cowboy Chris – that’s because you guys are old, hateful, and dying of meanness. Democrats can still walk and rarely have to get to the cafeteria by 4:00 for dinner. Plus, they don’t run the opposite direction when they see someone darker than a paper sack.
Do you realize that once Texas turns blue, you will never see another Republican in the White House? The Electoral College may have bought them this election, but then they are screwed to eternity.
Don’t sell the electoral college short. It still has some stolen elections left in it.
1The fist time around when Hillary lost to the electoral college I wrote to her with the premise that the college should walk the plank. Its original intention (a “bouquet” tossed to the slave states) was long gone. I bet she thought what she experienced then was just a fluke. Well . . . I just don’t like that college. Never have and never will.
2“you will never see another Republican in the White House?”
Maybe Republicans can hire a consultant for rebranding? Change their name to the Whigs? Try and get the RuPaul & Cher vote? Or announce honesty is their new best policy and pick up the mantle from The No Nothing Party?
3Let’s try that again:
4The Know Nothing Party
Hmmm….wondering if all this chicken little stuff isn’t a way to gin up the voters rolls purge. Getting folks all riled up so that they’ll demand the purge. It’ll ostensibly be about getting rid of ‘illegal furiners’ but also about rooting out Dem voters. Wouldn’t put it past them, they’re desperate and crooked.
5Never let a good opportunity to pass-the-hat go to waste.
6On one hand we have thuglicans warning of the apoclyse in 2020 if they stick with the demented one.
7On the other hand we have the national, and some state parties, tying themselves to the doddering fool by either eliminating primaries and caucuses and swearing their undying fealty to the pied piper of thuglican politics who has chased future support from women, people of color and the youth away from the thuglican brand.
Cognitive dissonance seems to be the preferred state of mind for these punks.
“could lose the reliably red state during his reelection bid in 2020 if he does not devote adequate attention and resources there.”
Republicans have been successful in texas because they know how to play on voters’ fears and prejudices, and because they have also honed to a razor sharpness the ability to field candidates who are not too bright, who are pretty — male and female—, and who can lie convincingly. As long as they stay with that recipe, the dumb asses will vote for them.
8Rick, look at it this way; punctuation. “No, Nothing. Party!”
9I’m planning on retiring in 2020, and will move away from Indiana (state motto: we’re dumber than Kentucky!). One criterion on where my wife and I move is a place that is close to tipping towards electoral sanity. If a few more voters can help, that’s as big of a draw as the weather or a good public library.
We’re going to be looking over some Texas cities this summer. But not Fort Worth, that place is dead to me since it went for Reagan in 1980. And the recent brouhaha over the “Muslim guy” being vice-chair of the county’s Republican party cements it. So on our way south, we’ll take the branch of I35 that goes through Dallas instead …
10Those organizational disadvantages still delivered Cruz over Beto even while Trump weighed in. Sanity just around the corner is still insane.
11venezuela is putting the demented one in a pickle.
His US supporters (i.e. koch, bp etc) want an excercise of dominance, be it military or coup, for an oppurtunity to loot Venezuela of its oil and other resources. Imposing a random individual who did NOT even run for president as the new president by dictat of the US would be an example of dominance and a coup.Plus to give a warning shot at any one else who dare challenge big oil.
On the other hand his russian master putie is supporting Maduro.
So what does he do? defy the koch bros. and military panting for another war by backing down thus showing his loyalty to putie boy.
Or
Defy putie with aggressive moves against Maduro and risk putie going public with whatever evidence russia has on doddering don.
If it wasn’t so sad it might be entertaining to watch him twist in the wind
12Yeah I agree with the foregoing. I’m not sure about Texas going Dem so long as Dem means “not very conservative”. I suspect from my own circle of friends that there are a few folk as socially democratic as I am, most lean conservative to one degree or the other.
I had personal business this week-end in west Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Benbrook, and Cresson, increasingly smaller towns. The folk in Cresson, while polite and showing no signs of eating their young or devil worship, were disgustingly conservative, pro-nacilbupeR, and inexplicably, pro-“big beautiful wall”. One or two distinctly white nationalist. I had difficulty breathing. While I know that Tarrant County is a hot bed of conservatism in north Texas, as well as a boil on my a$$, I suspect it is statistically the norm in Texas, perhaps with less intensity from county to county.
13O/T…sort of. At a March for Our Lives rally in Juneau last year, there was a burly, mean looking older guy dressed in black standing across the street, arms folded and glaring at us…presumably trying to be an intimidating presence for the NRA. A few days ago I took my little foster dog to the vet and saw him and his big old truck there. He was still sporting Trump/Pence bumper stickers. I didn’t ask, but I thought, “How embarrassing to still have those bumper stickers on his truck.”
14Texas is a state that keeps voting for Ted Cruz and (in part) Louie Gohmert. Enough said.
15I’ve mentioned this podcast^you about the inclusion of the citizenship question in the census previously. Here is the follow-up podcast after the court case, and they discuss why the government lost.
The projected consequences were staggering to all the largest Hispanic states, including CA, NY, and… Texas. Maybe Ross and co. are expecting the loss of TX…
^ “Why Is This Happening? Discussing the census decision with Dale Ho: bonus podcast and transcript
16In this bonus episode, Chris Hayes chats with the ACLU’s Dale Ho about suing the Trump administration over plans to add a citizenship census question.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/discussing-census-decision-dale-ho-bonus-podcast-transcript-ncna962761
How staggering? How about the population of the 18th largest state…
17Surly P: come see us in Dallas, help us and the DCCC flip TX24. Kenny Marchant hasn’t gone out in daylight since 2008, he could have died 2 years ago and nobody would have noticed.
18Meanwhile Mitch came out of hiding to call making Election Day a holiday was nothing but a Democratic power grab. Because he well knows, if people vote Republicans lose.
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