Posted on 10/27/2017 4:30:33 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck
Without their top enemy, who will Texas conservatives fight now?
Thomas Jefferson once asked if man had “found angels in the form of kings to govern him.” You wouldn’t know the question was rhetorical if you went by the mournful stories in the Texas media Wednesday about Joe Straus, the Republican speaker of the state House, announcing he won’t run for reelection.
“This is a sad day for TX,” tweeted Wendy Davis, the Democratic ex-gubernatorial candidate and abortion enthusiast. Straus “is the definition of public servant – always people above party.”
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That Wendy Davis is crying about it tells you all you need to know about what kind of "Republican" leadership Straus has provided over the years.
Straus, on the radio yesterday, sounded like he stole his comments from Corker or Flake - "Wa. Wa. Wa. Mean Tea Party radical types. Wa. Wa. Wa."
Good riddance, indeed.
>>“This is a sad day for TX,” tweeted Wendy Davis,
“Windy” is another Democrat who used to run as a Republican.
Some think Joe may run for the Governor as a DemocRat.
How’d he become speaker anyhow?
Being lauded by Wendy Davis is the kiss of death to a real conservative Republican...
About 2 years ago, Hannah Giles (O’Keefe’s ‘hooker’ in the ACORN sting) and her husband ran an enormous sting in the TXLEG, in bars, hotels, etc., with devastating footage and audio. The never publicly used/aired any of it. Don’t think there’s a thread here but should google easily.
Texas, and the Texas Republican party, are not nearly as “red” as a lot of people might think.
Progressives, you know, were once an offshoot within the Republican party, and the “radical Republicans” have been around as long as the party itself. It was only under FDR and the New Deal that these early-day RINOs flocked to the Democrat party.
Bob La Follette of Wisconsin and Teddy Roosevelt of New York were prominent members of this faction in the early part of the 20th Century.
How’d he become speaker anyhow?
Then he gave Democrats key committee leadership slots.
Finally rid of this bastard!!!
Too bad the author goes on a tirade about the TX GOP needing to pander to illegals to get the Hispanic vote. That’s been tried and failed (take a gander at California to see how well that worked out for their state party, utterly decimated since 1996).
A very good point. Lincoln's Marxists is an interesting read on the roots of progressivism in the GOP. Basically, the thesis is that the marxists fleeing retribution for the revolutions in Europe of 1848 found homes in the US and became politically active here via the early GOP.
HE became speaker by making a back stabbing deal with some RHINOS and Democrats who all voted for him instead of the speaker at the time, Craddick. Essentially turning control over to the Democrats. That’s a moderate for you.
Not for me! I thought it was a RED LETTER day!
and to make it even better... his 1st loouie Byron Cook also said he was not running again!!!!!!
Draining the swamp doesn't just happen in DC.
It tells us Strauss is a Democrat(R)
He’s leaving before his list of corruption scandals goes public.
Note how sad the Democrats are!
Democrats always admire those Republicans who are ‘above Party’ but Democrats always vote straight Democrat!
“Progressives, you know, were once an offshoot within the Republican party, and the “radical Republicans” have been around as long as the party itself. It was only under FDR and the New Deal that these early-day RINOs flocked to the Democrat party.”
“A very good point. Lincoln’s Marxists is an interesting read on the roots of progressivism in the GOP. Basically, the thesis is that the marxists fleeing retribution for the revolutions in Europe of 1848 found homes in the US and became politically active here via the early GOP.”
I am a registered Republican only because it is the only way to try to get the most conservative candidate into the general election. But I don’t consider myself a Republican. I am a small government, pro-freedom proponent. Those two goals do not seem to be on the top of the agenda for most Republicans in D.C., and sometimes in state legislatures either.
Given the history of the party, in my view, a big government, open-borders, pro-centralized government Republican is not a RINO, but an authentic Republican. (Though they are a CINO to be sure, assuming they pose as a conservative.)
‘Lincoln’s Marxists’ is a very eye-opening book, naming the Union generals who were self-identified socialists. Republican Party founder and newspaper magnate Horace Greeley published articles by Karl Marx for years in his New York Tribune (the New York Times of its day).
I have to agree. I've often thought that, while we use the lable RINO as a convenience, in point of fact I am the RINO in that, as you say, the present GOP is statist, central authority focussed, anti-liberty while I am an adherent of the Founders' notions of small, limited national government. In the original debates on the Constitution I side more with the anti-federalists than with the federalists.
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