Posted on 11/08/2018 5:48:06 AM PST by TexasGunLover
For almost 35 years, Tarrant County has been the most reliably red, urban county in Texas. Then, on Election Day, Democrat Beto O'Rourke beat Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the county.
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You can like Beto and loathe his politics.
Cruz shoukd have stepped down for the good of the party. This was more about his ego.
He owes Trump big for coming in to save his ass.
Cruz isn’t loathed by real conservatives but he was singled out by the anti-life, anti-constitution Hollywood crowd and was thus hit hard by millions of dollars of negative ads and paid Cruz-bashing internet trolls while Abbott and other GOP candidates were not because their state offices were simply not relevant to the liberal effort to stop SCOTUS nominations.
Same here in Williamson County. Gradually going from deep red to blue. Congressman Carter won by a mere 3% over a hard lefty female unknown. Lots of lib transplants living here now that work in Austin.
Williamson County will be blue in less than a decade.
X biggest problem is APATHY... its been so red so long, that it generally has some of the lowest turnouts as a percentage of the eligible population nationally.. generally no more than 35%.. even in a Presidential year.
Folks down there need to wake up, and stop taking the GOP wins as a given.. or they will be sneaking someone in sooner than most think
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Are you in Texas???
We had RECORD lines, especially for midterms, this year. Lines at MANY polling places were longer than lines in 2016.
We waited (to early vote) for almost an hour.
No voter apathy, anywhere in TX, that I am aware of.
How did YOUR state vote? Maybe work on fixing/improving things there, thank you very much.
only a nevercruzer would vote for Beto and think they are a Republican
In Houston it was straight party Democrats (over 100,000 more) that shifted county offices to Socialist Democrat control.
Is this due more to the fact Ted Cruz has been a turn off to the voters. I don’t think the county was purple when it came to the governor’s race.
THAT is the silver lining.
He had a massive media campaign behind him, and he fit the marketing. And Cruz was taken completely by surprise out of a laziness assuming that Texas is some magical land where no one would ever vote for a Democrat like they are some separate species or something.
Trump had to pull him over the finish line.
I hope the people in Texas get on the damn ball and have plans and resources locked-down for next time. No one there should be sitting on their ass until 2 months before an election.
LMAO.
In the end, that’s all that matters. He is just not presidential material, in my opinion.
Many, many foreigners live there now. In Ft.Worth as well as Dallas.
So soon we will all be voted a free lunch. Many democratic judges were
voted in also in Texas. I think we are just waiting for the fat lady to sing.
It is sad to say but these people don’t want an America as we know it, built on hard work and pride. They just want to drink coffee or wine all day and hang out.
Yup...once these states are lost, so is the Republic.
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The country is already well on its way toward socialism. I If you think about it, the government controls practically every aspect of our personal lives and business activity. The only question is how far to the left we go.
A compounding factor is the rapid pace of our ongoing cultural and demographic changes. The Republic is heading down a destructive path.
Thank you. Was about to post the same thing.
“Lot’s of Cali and Yankee voters moving to here”
I am a Yankee from Rhode Island that moved to Tarrant County 8 years ago. I have voted straight Republican ticket since I was old enough to vote. In the words of my Yankee Father, “Sure I would vote for a Democrat but in all these year I haven’t found one worth voting for.”
In the 8 years since I moved to North Fort Worth I have watched my neighborhood change from one or two Hispanic families to predominately Hispanic families and I doubt they are voting Republican.
Lets face it, conservatives could have taken the initiative but they blew it. Conservatives have this naive opinion that politics is only fought through elections. And we couldn’t even do this very well with mostly wussy apologetic candidates and insisting on always being reactive and allowing the left to set the ground rules we follow. Conservatives generally have a lot less enthusiasm for activism and tend to play defense if they show up to the game at all.
The left realized all the way back to the earliest days that this is an all out war to be fought on every front. They’ve gone on the offense. For decades we sat by and watched them tighten their grip over education and culture and then move to consolidate their power over other sectors until today where they have control of virtually every major institution in society.
Our immigration strategy is the worst of both worlds where we are almost as responsible as the Dems for allowing illegals to flood in but instead of at least getting something out of it we allow ourselves to be labeled in such a way to ensure that the resulting populations will hate us.
We blew our opportunity to go after the small by growing Asian vote in the 90s. I know some guys like to be postracial but in these times you have to play hardball. It was totally up for grabs and the Reps could have crafted a message of success and prosperity toward them but they sat on their hands and let this demographic fall into the blue camp
We’ve failed to do anything or even think about the root cause of our decline. The highest wall in the world is meaningless if the populations which support conservatives continue to shrink. Western society, even the parts that punch the ballot for the right is under the spell of selfhatred and apathy. We cannot begin to succeed until we realize and start to fix this.
This is the world we live in.
It all begins with public school indoctrination and daytime detention centers, and the Cultural Marxists have a 50-year head start. It’s all foreseeable, and at this point remains unchallenged. Even if we began today to reverse this trend, it would take many decades before we’d see any meaningful results. They’ve turned academia into a catechism of ignorance, and the mechanism by which moral codes are re-scripted and moraal boundaries are erased. I see no expedient remedy.
Who is presidential material at this point? Trump has six years left, assuming he wins re-election. He will be a very hard act to follow by any measure.
With all respect, I appreciate your *perception* of TX’s Cruz situation, from FL.
However....you are missing it.
Cruz IS not liked by MANY conservatives, in Texas (and elsewhere) for many of the following reasons....
... due to his decision to run for President, as a junior Senator, the way he handled his campaign with dirty tricks played on Dr Ben, the NY comments he made toward DJT, the dirty tricks his associates (Lee and Cuccinelli) played, in his favor, at the convention, and...honestly...just his demeanor. It is NOT genuine. He comes across as rehearsed (as I’ve mentioned, previously, he tells the same Dad story, over and over).
I’ve attended Cruz functions, so I’ve witnessed this myself. I volunteered for two of his campaigns.
I voted for Cruz this election.
Could we have a better candidate, than Cruz? Certainly. But, he and Cornyn are the best we have, for now.
Praying that Rick Scott, in FL, does not have to face a re-count from Nelson.
I got banned from free republic for defending Cruz here
I do support trump but genuinely believe the contempt Cruz received from republicans and ?conservatives? Is outrageous
He is the most conservative senator
Yet Lindsey Graham openly suggested that killing Cruz would not even elicit testimony from senators defending him against murder
That is flatly sick
I’m glad Lindsey woke up from his conservative coma to exclaim about the ideological rape of Kavanaugh but there needs to be 1000 times more of that
Cruz consistently defends conservatives
Yet he and his wife are bullied out of restaurants
Cruz is likeable because he is conservative
He won 5 Supreme Court cases for conservatives including cases against GWB
Colleges and universities are violating ethics rules to indoctrinate people to voting democrat.
That is the heart of the problem and can be easily stopped by holding hearings on abolishing the tax exempt status of schools.
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