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In Texas, a conservative Democrate is not an oxymoron; in fact its commonplace. He had no need to switch.

Sorry to take you to task for your remark, but you're dead wrong. I'm a Texan and would probably have better luck finding an albino armadillo tomorrow than a conservative democrat in Texas. I suppose Charlie Stenholm is one of the last "conservative" dems, but the rest are liberal as hell (and worthless).

Well, I could be wrong, I have been out of Texas for 13 years. But perhaps you might want to come out here to the San Francisco area for awhile, see the political landscape here... then you might understand my point of view :)

Cheers.

"Sorry to take you to task for your remark, but you're dead wrong. I'm a Texan and would probably have better luck finding an albino armadillo tomorrow than a conservative democrat in Texas. I suppose Charlie Stenholm is one of the last "conservative" dems, but the rest are liberal as hell (and worthless)."

You are correct. The "good" Democrats have gone away. Ralph Hall was the last one who could be called conservative. The best description for the rest are either "liberal as all hell" or "slimier than a snake" or both. The Democrats in Texas are a wholly owned subsidiary of the trial lawyers now.

Sorry to take you to task for your remark, but you're dead wrong. I'm a Texan and would probably have better luck finding an albino armadillo tomorrow than a conservative democrat in Texas. I suppose Charlie Stenholm is one of the last "conservative" dems, but the rest are liberal as hell (and worthless).

I believe there are still many conservative dims in this state, though few are in the congressional delegation. The panhandle, west and deep east Texas, and parts of the coast still have some.

Sorry to take you to task for your remark, but you're dead wrong. I'm a Texan and would probably have better luck finding an albino armadillo tomorrow than a conservative democrat in Texas. I suppose Charlie Stenholm is one of the last "conservative" dems, but the rest are liberal as hell (and worthless).

Dude, I don't know which "Texas" you think you live in, but the original statement was 100% correct. I don't know that the original statement meant congressional representatives, but if you actually knew anything about Texas, you'd know that truely liberal RATs are limited, for the most part, to urban areas, heavily unionized areas, and areas full of government employees. Even a good percentage of these people aren't truly liberal, but they do tend to vote for liberals on a state and national level.

The rest are moderate and conservative RATs who are RATs because their father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. were, and for no other reason. I know literally dozens of folks here in Texas that vote RAT from Al Gore all the way down to local elections, and these people are just as conservative as I am. For whatever reason, they seem to think this is still the 1950's where there are truely powerful multiple wings of the RAT party.

The original poster isn't "dead wrong." You are if you believe what you wrote.