It continues to look like Dewhurst is Texan for Lowell Weicker. Also note the specific quote from Dewhurst about how any real Texan would gladly pay some obscene new tax if it meant better gummint edumakashun (indoctrination at PS 666) for the children, for the children. That's the kind of drivel which we used to get in Connecticut from that other spoiled denizen of financial privilege Lowell Weicker as he shifted the tax burden from his elitist pals to the kid flipping burgers at Mickey D's. Having participated in the destruction of Weicker in my Connecticut days, I am likely unalterably opposed to Dewhurst. If he is determined to be yet another GOP elitist squishball in the US Senate seeking to be a similar replacement to Kay Bailey Hutchison, a worthy colleague of Cornyn, a footstool of all things "progressive" especially when they burden those of modest means, then in the unfortunate event that he might actually be nominated, it would be better to elect a Democrat (a name brand "progressive") now and a decent Republican in 6 years.
Better yet, nominate and elect Ted Cruz in 2012, smash the GOP-E in the face, and skip the middleman. It is NOT enough for a candidate to call himself a Republican if he has no plans to be other than an elitist moneyed stooge.
Not unlike Romney's campaign, the Dewhurst supporters seem rather silent on any plan to generate GOP enthusiasm and sound public policy. Has Dewhurst a total vacancy in the creative public policy department? Or is it: Vote Dewhurst, he won't do much damage and he won't have ANYTHING to do with all those embarrassing right wing nuts? Isn't it time that the GOP-Elitist cretins had yet ANOTHER Senator? No it is not.
A tax on wages and salaries is NOT a gross receipts tax on business, nor a an increase in property taxes (state property tax???? or local?) or a "franchise tax on businesses." I suspect that the sound way for conservative public officials to deal with leftist pseudoconstitutional dreams and schemes to increase the already obscene funding levels of their gummint indoctrination centers and youth brain laundries as well as impertinent lawsuits and judicial decisions on such subjects is not to come up with new taxes but to remove any positive mention of gummint edumakashun from Texas' state constitution and state legislation and tell the courts to fry ice.
Be all that my daughter in Dallas hopes that Texas can be.
That op-ed was from 2005. I never said that Cruz wrote it, I said it’s his source. An op-ed is *opinion.* Not news, not reporting. Not a good source.
Unfortunately, Cruz hasn’t shown any restraint in his campaign. He started out negative enough for me to confront him on it in mid-November. I was taught to reason and to meet with anyone with whom I disagree, so I made sure that the discussion was private and unobserved by others. He attacked me with a vehemence that was out of proportion. The same thing happened in February, although slightly more muted. That was when I decided to change my endorsement and asked my husband if I could send Dewhurst 4 times the money I sent Cruz.