Posted on 07/28/2004 4:19:21 PM PDT by Vision Thing
Texas is not a state accustomed to being treated small. As everyone knows -- and Texans are happy to boast -- it is a sprawling mass, a culture unto itself, a place fond of recalling its days as a wholly independent republic.
So it is with hard-to-swallow humility that Texas Democrats visiting Boston for the Democratic National Convention find themselves the only delegation assigned to the Hilton Boston Logan Airport, overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension. The Texans are struggling to land well-known breakfast speakers, settling so far for a lame-duck Texas congressman. Their convention seating, a level above the floor in a wedge of seats left of center, is less than prime. Their allotment of guest invites is modest at best.
"We're the lowest on the totem pole," lamented Margery Loeb, a delegate and business consultant from Victoria, Texas.
Such is the status of states with little chance of a Democratic win in November. Texas is the most glaring example, being big and President Bush's stronghold. But it is joined by a number of other Republican-dominated states, the so-called red states expected to once again support Bush. They all have been ignored in the goodies and attention lavished on 18 battleground states this week.
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Arn't these the same idiots who fled to New Mexico in order to avoid voting on a redistricting plan? I disrespect them too.
Democrats from flyover country feel so lonely, don't they? Its time to put them on suicide watch.
Just wait until Texas becomes a battleground state sometime after the start of the next decade.
Well WE will treat OUR Texas Delegates REALLY WELL at the RNC convention! Like royalty!!!!!
They just can't catch a break.
We'll stick the Massachusetts delegation someplace nice...like Cleveland. ;)
Bawhahahhahahhaha....BEST LAUGH of the YEAR! That's what they get for DISRESPECTING Texas by hauling their BUTTS to Oklahoma! The Rat party stands for...USE them and ABUSE them...bawhahahahhahahhaha!
Instead of putting them on suicide watch, we should tell them to surrender. They should just join us on the right side of the political aisle, where the real winners are.
No, this is a completely different set of idiots. The ones in NM were state legislators. These guys are delegates.
You're not suggesting that the Texas Republicans have jumped the shark, are you?
The state is still growing faster than most. And although we have illegal immigration bolstering the dems here, the suburbs are still growing even faster, helping to bolster the Republicans.
The Republicans should continue to rule, if not grow, here in Texas.
I'm shocked. With all the convention speakers' talk of restoring our democracy, you'd think all state delegations would be treated with scrupulous fairness. Seems to me if the few Texans who are democrat are punished, there will be even fewer in the future.
It's gonna be cool to see the Texans taking over Madison Square Garden.
The massholes at the RNC will probably be worse off than the poor little Texas dems at the DNC. They'll be in NYC, where Bostonians aren't much appreciated. Their beloved Red Sox will probably be seven games behind the Yanks. It'll be ugly.
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On Fox 4 here in DFW, they showed the Texas delegation responding to this article. If things weren't already bad enough for them there, this article completely dejected them.
They were very unhappy about the article.
A Texas-sized rebellion in Boston. I like it.
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