Ronnie Earle, Bowling for Anything

KisP ^ | October 1, 2005 | Rodger Schultz

[Rodger Schultz]

In  Means of Ascent, the second volume in Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning  biographical trilogy about Lyndon Johnson, we see how  Johnson "won" the Senate election of 1948 due to massive fraud and ballot box stuffing. The backdrop is an utterly corrupt Texas democratic party that was in place for Johnson to use.  So corrupt, that even when an overwhelming majority of Texans later began voting conservative, democrats were able to maintain voting districts that kept them in power, and send disproportionate numbers to congress, and the Texas State House. Small wonder, then, that the brilliant political architect who brought their house of cards down, Tom DeLay, gets the patented Newt Gingrich treatment from rats left to dry in the sun.

Any.  Let me say it again.  Any person feigning to ask the question "Do you think Ronnie Earle's indictment of Tom DeLay  is politically motivated?" ... . Any person asking that question may fairly have the dreaded  A , for liberal  a**hole, branded onto his or her forehead.

Forget that Earle has a history of prosecuting political enemies.  Forget that his home base, Travis County, is a liberal snake pit.  Forget that the  indictmet fails to spell out any specific charge against DeLay.  Forget that Ronnie Earle has a history of stopping the prosecutions of companies that decide to contribute to his favorite cause, Ronnie Earle.  Forget that Ronnie Earle is certifiable, having once indicted himsel!  Forget that, seconds after DeLay's indictment was announced, the national Democratic party launched a coordinated  "Republicans are corrupt" media campaign.  Forget all that. Here's all you need to know.

Ronnie Earle had film makers in place, already making a documentary about ...  Ronnie Earle (The Big Buy)!

Am I wrong to suggest that you have to be a capital A not to smell that stink? 

That's what I thought.  Thank you.

[ncountylee]

A for AMEN!

[brivette]

Tom Delay is a hero. We need to defend him.

[Logical me]

Maybe it's time to go after this dick head. A person as corrupt as this should have loads of garbage to feed on.

[gondramB]

"Forget that Earle has a history of prosecuting political enemies. Forget that his home base, Travis County, is a liberal snake pit. Forget that the indictment fails to spell out any specific charge against DeLay. Forget that Ronnie Earle has a history of stopping the prosecutions of companies that decide to contribute to his favorite cause, Ronnie Earle. Forget that Ronnie Earle is certifiable, having once indicted himsel! ."

That's a bunch of specifics it would be nice to document.

The statistic I've heard twice on the local radio though, is that 12 out of 15 politicians Earle has prosecuted were Democrats. Republicans need to be able to come back and say "yes, but those were political enemies."

[Mamzelle]

Welcome to FR.

Texas, until very recently (and thanks in large part to the aggressiveness of Tom Delay) was a state of conservative Democrats and liberal Democrats. Earle went after conservative Democrats until they turned Republican, then he went after Republicans.

Texas was a place where Republicans had to register as Democrats to have any conservative influence at all, since elections were decided in the Dem primaries. I even had the fun of voting for Jesse Jackson as Dem Prez Candidate. (Well, he was the least idiotic of the Seven Dwarves).

Hope that clears up your "talking point" handed down from that frustated has-been, Martin Frost...

Hasn't grown legs yet, has it? And are you prepared to address Earle "selling" his influence by allowing defendants to contribute to his pet causes in exchange for dropped charges?

I think Earle is going to be your tar-baby, baby. And Uncle McDelay isn't going to throw you in the briar patch.

[daybreakcoming]

Texas didn't have any Republicans at that time so he went after the conservative democrats. So his statement on that doesn't hold water.

[gondramB]

"Texas, until very recently (and thanks in large part to the aggressiveness of Tom Delay) was a state of conservative Democrats and liberal Democrats. Earle went after conservative Democrats until they turned Republican, then he went after Republicans"


That makes perfect sense. It was very much like that in Georgia too.

[gondramB]

BTW, have you googled Martin Frost?

The first link that comes up says "Frost, Martin for Congress (TX-32)" but when you click on the link it goes to a flow shop. Or at least that's what happens when i click on it- maybe I have spyware but I don't think so.

And thanks for the welcome. Nice place y'all have here.

[gondramB]

"Texas didn't have any Republicans at that time so he went after the conservative democrats. So his statement on that doesn't hold water."

In Georgia that how you had Lester Maddox and Jimmy Carter back to back as Democratic Georgia Governors.