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Texas Senate Loses Yet Another Moderate
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| 5/19/14
| Christopher Hooks
Posted on 05/19/2014 6:12:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Moderates wear pink boxer shorts with bunnies, kitties, and unicorns.
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posted on
05/19/2014 6:38:43 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Milton Miteybad
They were listening to the wrong jokers from up north then. The constitution of MA was written by John Adams himself, and he always recommended a strong executive, checked by the other powers of course.
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posted on
05/19/2014 6:41:21 PM PDT
by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: cotton1706
We didn't have a choice during Reconstruction. It was forced on us. The entire Texas Constitution needs to be re-written to fit on 4 double-spaced, typewritten pages.
/johnny
To: cotton1706
The political changes instituted in the southern states during Reconstruction, you may recall, were not voluntary. Mr. Adams was no longer in a position to offer his wise counsel by that time, and further, it appears that every person from Massachusetts who may have been in a position to influence the Reconstruction reform process in Texas in the 1870s couldn't have cared less what Mr. Adams may have thought about the need for a strong executive. Either that, or they had forgotten it or failed to learn it in the first place.
Besides...in Texas, we do have a strong executive. It's just not the Governor. And it hasn't held us back a bit.
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posted on
05/19/2014 6:56:34 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: cotton1706
Adios. Texas Tech has a problem. We Don’t like these weenies. and we stop giving. We are legion.
To: cotton1706
If Texas keeps going more conservative, they will become so prosperous they might buy California and sell it to Mexico.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:03:17 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: freedumb2003
No such thing as a “moderate”.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:05:39 PM PDT
by
albie
To: cotton1706
Don’t let the door hit’cha in the rear end on the way out.
To: Mastador1
Isn't moderate just another word for RINO? No. Moderate is simply a false narrative pushed by the Left to goad Republicans into giving up their principles. It creates a fabricated political plain in which that the "middle" (i.e. liberalism) is mainstream and that Republicans need to be in order to appeal to voters and win. Of course, nothing is said of Democrats who remain true to their liberal philosophy.
The fact that Republicans keep falling for this crap, and then scratches their heads and wonder why they still lose election, is beyond me.
To: cotton1706
If Texas Monthly praised him.....
To: Mastador1
>>Isn’t moderate just another word for RINO?<<
Votes
Always
Government
INterests
Only
VAGINO...
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:41:12 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: cotton1706
The magazine raved about his credibility, calm, and collegiality. Aka, his willingness to be rolled by Democrats.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:44:04 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
To: cotton1706
Duncan, a veteran of the Texas Senate, was no liberal. But he was more moderate than many of his colleagues in the Senate GOP caucus, and he was seen as a force for stability by Senate watchers. Odd how nobody ever mentions that if conservatives get the majority in the Texas Senate, it would be every bit as "stable", if not more so.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:44:12 PM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
To: freedumb2003
You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:49:34 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
>>You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.<<
Oh, yeah, I thought about “Anytime.” But nowadays everything is something something “-O”
Thus VAGINO...
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posted on
05/19/2014 7:55:24 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: Colonel_Flagg
From your fingers to God’s eyes!
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posted on
05/19/2014 8:03:39 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
To: JRandomFreeper
We didn't have a choice during Reconstruction.The US Congress was in full blown punishment/payback mode. Especially due to Lincoln's death.
To: JRandomFreeper
Ben Butler was an early taste of what was ahead if the Confederacy fell...
To: cotton1706
We had a Governor here in TX many moons ago (Ferguson) who was caught selling pardons.
The Governor hasn’t had the power since.
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posted on
05/19/2014 10:51:45 PM PDT
by
Clump
( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
To: JRandomFreeper
Close the boarder and open carry here we come!
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posted on
05/20/2014 4:39:55 AM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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