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Moderate Republicans sidelined as Texans prepare to go to the polls
Sanantonioreport.org ^ | 10/2/22 | Robert Rivard

Posted on 10/02/2022 4:46:49 AM PDT by cotton1706

Moderate Texas Republicans have been on my mind in recent weeks, although less than 40 days from now I’ll be working my way through a lengthy midterm election ballot with very few such candidates seeking my vote.

Full disclosure: I am an independent who votes both ways — or at least has done so in the past. In recent years, most of my votes have gone to Democrats.

That’s because most moderate Texan Republicans whose agendas might appeal to me and other independents have been benched and are left to watch electoral politics from the sidelines. The party dominated for the last six years by former President Donald Trump and his legions of Make America Great Again loyalists leaves no room for common-sense, right-center political leaders.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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"In recent years, most of my votes have gone to Democrats."

Golly gee, what a shock! A moderate "Republican" finds more in common with Democrats!

And you wonder why there are "very few such candidates seeking my vote." But

1 posted on 10/02/2022 4:46:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
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I hate seeing “moderate Republicans” in any news article. Call them what they are...democrats and be done with it.


2 posted on 10/02/2022 4:49:22 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

“Moderate” Democrats left behind as voters go to polls.


3 posted on 10/02/2022 4:51:38 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: cotton1706
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

4 posted on 10/02/2022 4:52:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: cotton1706

“I’m an independent.”

Nope. He’s a liberal who votes for democrats or left leaning Republicans.

If one votes for democrats, one votes for leftist policies.


5 posted on 10/02/2022 4:59:05 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: cotton1706
no room for common-sense, right-center political leaders

Yeah. So vote for crazy Democrat/Communists instead. Because they want to destroy America.

6 posted on 10/02/2022 5:01:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas
Is a Republican squish really better than a known out and out commie?

I think that answer we have all come to is no. Our squisshied cut pubbies are death to the country.

7 posted on 10/02/2022 5:01:35 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Nothing new about changes as the world proceeds on to it’s
final destination for each of us. Just look at this land called
the USA from the time Columbus sailed the ocean blue
in 1492. The rulers have changed from that time and will
keep changing until the world as we know it ceases to be.


8 posted on 10/02/2022 5:03:36 AM PDT by deport
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"In recent years, most of my votes have gone to Democrats."

That's not a republican. That's not a moderate republican. That's not even a RINO.

That's the sign of a democrat who has NEVER voted republican, and is more like a deep-blue progressive, pretending that he's conflicted, when everything he says points to him being progressive and has never even considered voting for a republican or for even an independent candidate.


9 posted on 10/02/2022 5:03:51 AM PDT by adorno
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To: cotton1706

If you can’t see the common sense of Make America Great Again loyalist politicians then YOU are just another radical progressive leftist trying to hide in the middle out of either ignorance or apathy. Or both.


10 posted on 10/02/2022 5:03:54 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" LStar)
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To: albie

>> Call them what they are...democrats and be done with it.

If there’s one thing I despise even more than the evil principality that is the “progressive Democrat party”... it’s the even more evil principality that calls itself “moderate center right Republicans” (or independents).

When you throw in their cowardice, “centrists” are twice as evil, because they are really ‘rats, but too chicken to admit it.


11 posted on 10/02/2022 5:04:14 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: adorno

I hate to break it to people, but....

The letter after the name means jack anymore.

The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.

And the vast majority of all our pols have proven themselves to be Deep State.


12 posted on 10/02/2022 5:07:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: cotton1706

The Texas Bush dynasty is collapsing. Donald Trump did that.


13 posted on 10/02/2022 5:07:19 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: mewzilla

Note to the UK: You lot have the same problem, but you haven’t had the brains to realize it yet.


14 posted on 10/02/2022 5:08:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: cotton1706

I was listening to The Andrew Klavan Show • Sep 30, 2022 https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-andrew-klavan-show/ep-1099-the-world-s-right-rises

The Author Emily B. Finley “The Ideology of Democratism”
Aug 2022 · Oxford University Press; was on the program and I heard an explanation of these people that just smacked me as the perfect formation of what is happening in words.

In Order to fight something, you have to be able to name it precisely.


15 posted on 10/02/2022 5:08:38 AM PDT by dila813
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To: cotton1706

What a pompous ass. I saw a handful of those types standing in the median of the road into my town yesterday waving signs saying vote blue. They all had one visible thing in common even though they ranged in age 50-80 including a few elderly blue hairs, they all were clearly members of the dependent class.

Vote blue my ample ass.


16 posted on 10/02/2022 5:10:26 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: cotton1706

Apparently, he can vote, but not explain why he votes for an evil party that is trying to destroy our freedoms and constitution. And give our money away.

Perhaps, he should consider living and voting in Russia, China, Cuba, etc.


17 posted on 10/02/2022 5:18:46 AM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: cotton1706
Later in the article, the writer. Robert, shows his true colors: "What the anti-transgender “bathroom bill” and other divisive social issues" - RAINBOW LGBTQ+ stealth Democrat.

Probably loves Anti-white CRT in the scrools

Probably No clue what a RINO is.

18 posted on 10/02/2022 5:24:14 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: cotton1706

San Frontonio. Hard to find a conservative there. Typical journalist. Wishing we constitutional conservatives would go away quietly.
You’ll take our guns when you pry them from our dead fingers.


19 posted on 10/02/2022 5:28:22 AM PDT by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: adorno
That's the sign of a democrat who has NEVER voted republican

Exactly! He didn't vote for the republicans even when they were moderate, and now he's complaining about MAGA ones.

20 posted on 10/02/2022 5:28:26 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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