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Petition started asking Obama to allow Texas to secede from the Union
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Posted on 11/09/2012 6:58:13 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
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Of course, I don't realistically think that Texas will actually secede, but I had to laugh when I saw that this petition has started and I'm curious to see how many people sign it. Just imagine if Texas did become its own country and conservatives could find refuge there. One of the things I find so frustrating is that there is literally NOWHERE in the world that offers freedom from Big Government anymore. I don't want to live in a theocracy. I don't want to live in a nanny state. I want to live somewhere that people can be free to live as they please and just leave be left alone. Liberals have always had the option of immigrating to Canada or Europe if they crave big government (even though, of course, a lot of the ones who threatened to leave when Bush won never did follow through - they *could* have left if it was really that bad here under Bush). There isn't anywhere for conservatives to go if we don't like the way this country is going.
I really think that both sides would be happier if conservatives did have a place to go where we could be left alone and could simply stay out of liberals' attempts at social engineering through big government. Let them create their big govt programs AND pay the bill for them.
To: oneprolifewoman
The bigger problem is how do you fit 150 million people into Texas?
To: oneprolifewoman
All those Mexican illegals that Ubama is about to legalize will vote it down.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:01:23 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
To: oneprolifewoman
Don’t ask for permission, just do it!
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:02:24 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: oneprolifewoman
Texas is big, but not big enough to hold all of us who would move there if it did secede.
To: JoeDetweiler
The bigger problem is how do you fit 150 million people into Texas? I can see red interior "flyover country" America becoming part of greater Texas. It's pretty much all contiguous territory.
Blue Amerika is largely disconnected enclaves.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:03:33 PM PST
by
lightman
(If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
To: reflecting
What if they added Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
To: JoeDetweiler
Actually the whole world could fit comfortably in Texas
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:03:56 PM PST
by
tsowellfan
(Allen West for Speaker!)
To: oneprolifewoman
I really think that both sides would be happier if conservatives did have a place to go where we could be left alone and could simply stay out of liberals' attempts at social engineering through big government. Let them create their big govt programs AND pay the bill for them.Galts Gulch. If Texas managed to pull it off, I'd go there. No questions asked. I would do everything, to the best of my ability, to help make Texas the greatest state in the non-union!
To: oneprolifewoman
Last time I checked no one has to ask the President for permission to secede.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:05:02 PM PST
by
Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
To: oneprolifewoman
I think if Texas got the ball rolling, you would see other Red States follow. I looked at the electoral map and imagined what that might look like. Red States would have coastal regions, agriculture, oil and lots of room for growth. The Blues would be screwed as no one in their right mind would stay in NYC or LA, New England would be screwed and would love to see the illegals et al flock to western California, NY etc to get their freebies. Hasta la vista, Baybee
To: oneprolifewoman
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:05:36 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: reflecting
If we all stood "shoulder to shoulder," we could fit the entire planet of 7 billion-plus people in Jacksonville, Fla.
But they all could live comfortably in Texas.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:06:28 PM PST
by
tsowellfan
(Allen West for Speaker!)
To: rovenstinez
As long as we’re “discussing it”, I would add not only Oklahoma, but Louisiana, and maybe parts of Arizona, too.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:06:39 PM PST
by
basil
(Second Amendment Sisters.org)
To: rovenstinez
As long as we’re “discussing it”, I would add not only Oklahoma, but Louisiana, and maybe parts of Arizona, too.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:06:44 PM PST
by
basil
(Second Amendment Sisters.org)
To: JoeDetweiler
The bigger problem is how do you fit 150 million people into Texas?
but how much of Texas is federal land ,that Obama would keep
To: rovenstinez
As long as we’re “discussing it”, I would add not only Oklahoma, but Louisiana, and maybe parts of Arizona, too.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:06:52 PM PST
by
basil
(Second Amendment Sisters.org)
To: A_Former_Democrat
We’ve got 38 EVs. That’s guaranteed EVs for the Republican nominee...it’s time Texas Republicans start putting leverage on the National GOP...Currently because of the F’d Up primary system, Texas has no voice is who is the nominee.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:07:01 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: oneprolifewoman
Great! They could add Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma to that petition too. That would make a pretty fair place to live as a separate country. But Texas would have to let us Okies eat Bevo. Mmm, charbroiled longhorn.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:07:07 PM PST
by
Don Carlos
(01/20/2009 - Begin the Obama Interregnum. Will it ever end?)
To: oneprolifewoman
If Texas is going to secede, they better do it quick, ‘cuz they’ll be a Blue State inside of 10 years.
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posted on
11/09/2012 7:08:21 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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