[uncommonsense]

"you see, Texas is the Republican-party of the states: it talks good things but doesn't do them, it lives off a reputation that it doesn't deserve, and they have a misfounded haughty pride about their status as Texans, and so forth."

You say:

"That's pretty bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

Then I say - "FILL YOUR HANDS YOU SON-OF-A-BIEACH"

Rooster Cogburn quote just in case...

Seriously, give me one Ted Cruz produced by wherever you're from...

[OneWingedShark]

Seriously, give me one Ted Cruz produced by wherever you're from...

I like Ted Cruz, but let's face it he's not representative of Texas as a whole (in the sense of yeah, most Texans are like him).
In fact, he's a pretty big exception/anomaly in the Republican party because he isn't all talk and no action… so you're kinda proving my point.

TX struts around and tries to present itself as all the things it was years ago (twenty? thirty? fifty? In any case, the younger generation has no experience with the actuals that produced the reputation¹), just like the Republican party does trying to wave the flag and say it's the party of Reagan, principles, God-Country-Family, whatever-sounds-good-so-you'll-vote-for-Romney..

¹ &mdsah; how much does the state intrude on life? the county? the city? — is it an incredible amount compared to a half-century ago?