One More Reason Why You Should Elect Democrats
Planning. Democrats are pretty damn good at planning.
Republicans are not. They ignore the inevitable and then waste time whining about it when it gets here. Backed into a corner, they can’t make a decision or even take a smidgeon of responsibility when they do. Everybody runs around covering their butts instead of getting anything done.
Republicans make a big damn mess and I’m not even talking about their response to Covid 19. I’m talking about the political party conventions in Texas.
Democrats opted out of an in-person state convention that was pre-planned for San Antonio. The state party announced Democrats would have a virtual convention in June and spent a month planning for it, even with the entire party staff working from home. They hired a television producer to come in and set up the workings on Zoom. Not much television is being produced right now so it was easy to find one who knew their stuff.
The convention was spectacular and everybody had the best seat in the house. We had individual senatorial district meetings with a couple hundred people each to elect people to committees (which also met) and national convention delegates. It went off without a hitch and was pre-planned in detail.
One way you know it was successful is that every past virtual convention in the country has lost money. Texas Democrats netted $1.5 million. Instead of 4,000 people attending, hundreds of thousands watched. They trained and certified 3,400 voter registrars in Texas and trained thousands in every aspect of campaigning. And all because it was planned like a royal damn wedding.
Now let’s look at the Texas Republican Convention. They wanted to hold it in Houston at the George R Brown. At the time, Houston is a giant Fry Baby of virus. Mayor Turner said nope. They went the court who also said nope. So they smugly took it to the Texas Supreme Court, the most rightwing Republican court in the nation, and even 7 of them said, “are you nuts?” and one abstained and the other is nuttier than squirrel poop. That occurred exactly one week before the convention was to start.
So, all these old straight white men and their Karens run home to see if their Radio Shack Tandy 150 computers can use Zoom.
And then there’s the national convention. Democrats have been planning their’s for two months. Republicans are still trying to find a place to have it. Honey, it has Goat Rodeo written all over it. Trump was even considering putting delegates on cruise ships and docking them near the convention center. He’s gonna wait until the last minute to make a decision and then claim he’s a victim of everybody on the damn planet because he’s not getting his convention. We will once again hear a spoon being pounded on a high chair tray.
So, there ya go – a great reason to vote for Democrats. They can see trouble a mile off and plan for it.
I’m counting on the Dems to put on something actually interesting to watch–I’m presuming the major networks will carry at least part of it. The Rethugs? Not so much. The comparison oughta be hilarious.
1The “Radio Shack Tandy 150” computer mention had me laughing out loud. Maybe they could record the whole thing for their Betamax tape player too. lol
2Knowing the GOP, They are probably dicing who will call the long distance operator to schedule a phone call!
3The perfect venue is not as hard to secure as most people might think. Especially if the professed ideologues are true to, shall we say, certain avowed principles.
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4Another fine piece by Juanita Jean Herownself.
5Remember back in March when Governor Dumbutt said Texas didn’t need to do anything about the coronavirus because Texas still had over 200 counties that didn’t have any cases? Well, we’re now down to quite a bit under 200 that don’t have cases.
Governor Dumbutt and the NSGOP seem to think you don’t need to staff and equip a fire department until your house is on fire, you don’t need to build a seawall until you have a Cat 5 hurricane, and you don’t need to build roads until you have millions of cars and trucks. Is there any way we can drag them into the 20th century?
6BFSMan @ 6:
The pattern has been around for close to a century.
Remember Herbert Hoover who ignored the Great Depression till he got replaced by a Democrat?
Then, we thought we had hit rock bottom when Nixon was impeached and removed.
No such luck: Reagan closed down any and all mental health facilities in the country and handed their duties over to the police departments and the private homeless shelters.
And H. W. talked about “a thousand points of light” [read private charities.]
Then, W came along and, once again, a Democrat had to be rushed in to save us from what he did to us — with Republicans fighting him every step of the way.
Certainly W was the bottom of the barrel, right? Right?
Nope.
Every time I see Steve Schmidt pontificate about how bad things are these days, I remember that he wanted Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat away from the presidency under a man who had already had a heart attack.
And now here we are.
7Anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention for at least 91 years.
What are the going odds on Trump being the nominee after the GOP convention?
8As of 9:30 Tuesday night, the news is reporting that so many R’s are opting out of attending their national convention, they’re now floating the idea of holding it anyway. Live and in person. Meetings that last all day. Outside. In Florida. After decades of Global Warming.
Yeah. That should work.
9Twocrows – Darwin and heatstroke may solve any number of problems for us…especially if the ICU’s are already overwhelmed with Covid19 cases.
Megasoid#4 – I am totally stealing that graphic.
And Juanita Jean – another bit of brilliant writing! Thank you!
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