Breaking up is not very hard to do: Down in South Texas, strange things keep happening

American Thinker ^ | 11/17/2021 | Silvio Canto Jr.

[SeekAndFind]

Down in South Texas, strange things keep happening.  I mean strange if you are a Democrat and grew up believing that your party had a lock on the vote.

On the day that former representative Beto O'Rouke announced his candidacy for governor, a Democrat switched parties down on the border.  This is from The Texas Tribune:

Longtime Democratic state Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City is switching parties as Republicans press to make new inroads in South Texas and after redistricting made his district much more favorable to the GOP.

Guillen made the announcement Monday morning at a news conference here where he was joined by Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont.

"Friends, something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C., are not our values, not the values of most Texans," Guillen said. "The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas."

Rep. Ryan Guillen (D R-Rio Grande City)

[glaseatr]

I think this guy switched parties only to save his own skin.

[Mathews]

Ha ha... yeah. This guy won’t fool anyone.

[j.havenfarm]

Whatever his motives, I’ll take him. Makes quorum games by the other side more difficult to pull off

[PeterPrinciple]

“Any damn fool (democrat) can start a love affair, but it takes considerable skill to end one.”

[texas booster]

I think this guy switched parties only to save his own skin.

While I am sure that self preservation has a lot to do with it, keep in mind that the RGV is nearly Democrat central in Texas (after the big cities).

There is a long tradition of Texas democrats being fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

This guy sounds like a Latino version of the East Texas democrats, that finally woke up and realized that the party has left him high and dry.

I will give him a chance ... knowing that he will be to the political right of all the democrat leftists, and to the political left from me.

[kagnew]

Little Beto needs to take his skate board and go back to El Paso and play with it.

[Sequoyah101]

Means nothing. He only changed parties to win reelection and keep the machine moving for him.

[ChuckHam]

He may get one chance in his new district. If he doesn’t do right he’ll be booted out and another Repug elected in his place. He doesn’t have much room to be “maverick”.

[FryingPan101]

In El Paso, we look at Beto as a perennial candidate of anything and everything. As one local radio host put it, it seems as though Beto will keep running for something until he wins. He seems to be most warmly received on college campuses in the San Antonio/San Marcos areas. You can fool the perpetually fooled all of the time.

[glaseatr]

I agree with what you said in regards to the other side. I just don't want him to be the "Other" side when we need him on our side.

[lewislynn]

He's an example of what's wrong with the Republican party.

Too many Democrats switched to Republican.

They say "switched" I say infiltrated.

[glaseatr]

I just don't want him to be the "Other" side when we need him on our side.

[kagnew]

Has Beto tried “DOG CATCHER?”