Posted on 05/30/2014 6:08:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
David Dewhurst's political demise is being compared to a Greek tragedy, but it's more like a slow-motion car accident.
In 2012, Dewhurst was a multimillionaire, former CIA officer, founder of an energy and investments company, three-term lieutenant governor -- arguably Texas's most powerful politician -- and was looking to walk into an open U.S. Senate seat. Today, he's a guy who has lost a primary and then a runoff to a radio talk show host and who may never win another statewide race in Texas.
If you had predicted this change of fortune in January 2011, when a little-known Texan named Ted Cruz told bloggers on a conference call that he was going to try to give Dewhurst a run for his money, you would have been laughed out of Austin. But today, the lieutenant governor's decline and fall looks foreordained.
Dewhurst's team ran a TV attack ad in 2012 that plays a key role in the story. It ran before the state Republican convention and suggested Cruz -- then experiencing a grassroots-fueled apotheosis -- cared more about China than America. The ad shaded his skin yellow. Other Dewhurst communications, including email blasts and push cards, labeled him “Red Ted.”
Cruz supporters -- and by that point, there were a lot of them -- were exercised. So when Dewhurst described his campaign as positive during his 2012 Texas Republican Convention speech, delegates retorted with boos and “ON TO THE RUNOFF! TED CRUZ” signs. The crowd also booed Gov. Rick Perry when he praised Dewhurst. Perry later told reporters he thought they were chanting “Dew.” Dewhurst had peaked. Cruz beat him by 13 points.
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Mitt Romney was a boring guy in The 60s.
Now that the liberal republican establishment politician is out of the way, I look forward to conservative legislation not being stalled or killed in the Senate.
/johnny
Good riddance to a real GOP-E scumbag.
They keep trying to tell us that the Tea Party is dead.
Don’t look for too much action in DC if we win the Senate; we won’t have enough to override a veto. But we may be able to limit El-Presidente’s damage to our once great nation.
Clueless Rick.
And then there was this.
Bump
Tears of a RINO
With Dewhurst gone, and his democrat machine falling apart, conservative legislation has a much better chance in the Texas Senate.
/johnny
There's still that problem in the House. Straus has to be the next one to get Tea Partied.
It is a damn site better than being Barack Hussein Obama.
May his political career RIP —
But politically, the key will be to force Obama to veto bills with popular support, over and over and over. Essentially, the exact opposite of the Reid-run Senate, where nothing Obama won't sign will ever see the light of day.
What has age got to do with it?
Are you looking for a leader?
Or are you looking for a boyfriend?
Yeah, and Dew said, they (his people) ran a ‘clean’ campaign. lol
Like many other Texans have already stated....
Well....bye!
I went to a luncheon where Dewberry happened to be speaking, during his Senatorial run. It was all anyone could do to not snooze, once he began to talk. I felt kind of sorry for his staffers....having to listen to this guy drone on and on...on a daily basis.
Contrast that with a dinner we went to, this year, where Sen Cruz was the keynote speaker...his staffer’s never got a break, with folks clamoring to speak to the Senator, or his staffers, the entire event.
The collapse of the Dewhurst machine takes a lot of leverage away from Strauss.
/johnny
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