I’m not sure Southerners think Texas is part of the South.
Of all the complaints you could make about the man, this is perhaps one of the silliest.
GTT was found scratched in many a deserted Southern door.
Absolutely right - and Texas IS considered the south west - whether the writer, seemingly having to really stretch it to slam the Pres, likes it or not.
I have lot's of family in Texas - they do not consider themselves part of "the South", nor do many others - I'm a Mainer, and have lived all over the country - never heard Texas referred to as anything other than 'south western' - geeze.
As a writer, I'd call this lazy writing...get a real point.
I think they do. But if not, they should:
"I rely on Texas troops in all tight places, and fear I have to call on them too often. They have fought grandly, nobly..." --Gen. Robert E. Lee
“I’m not sure Southerners think Texas is part of the South.
Of all the complaints you could make about the man, this is perhaps one of the silliest.”
Agreed. Being from the South, I and everyone I know considers Texas to be in the Southwest with a distinctly different history and culture.
“I’m not sure Southerners think of Texas as part of the South”.
I don’t know about that but the vast majority of Texans think they are part of the South. Politically and culturaly Texas is Southern. Go from Texas into New Mexico and you can hear and feel the difference. Besides, true Southwestern Mexican food sucks. It can’t hold a candle to Tex-Mex!
Actually I think it's easier to find PC Texans who wish not to be called Southern....like George Bush did...than to find Southerners who don't claim Texas.
Texas had 92,000 out of 100-110,000 eligible fight in the WBTS. That is plenty Southern enough for me.
Agreed.
Actually, it isn't a "silly" complaint, it's quite substantive.
Loyalty in politics, especially in American politics, is a big deal. "You dance with the one what brung you." You reward your date with a show of loyalty -- and you don't catch a social disease from messing around in the coatroom. Bush behaves at times more like a British prime minister, like an expedient William Gladstone or an overly clever and calculating Stanley Baldwin -- or like a frat boy practicing the old Sigma Nu "Four F's". American conservatives would rather he acted more like Andrew Jackson, who defended his wife fiercely against the calumnies of Washington society, or like William Jennings Bryan defending the freehold farmers and Western miners against the East Coast money interests. Abraham Lincoln advocated for the freesoil farmers, Teddy Roosevelt advocated for small businesses and Main Street, and Richard Nixon advocated for the Moral (Silent) Majority.
Bush has been good about defending staffers -- when they go down the line for him. He's been good about not deserting Scooter Libby, but on the other hand he and Arlen Specter could have done more for Rick Santorum, knowing that UberRat Rahm Emanuel and Harry Reid had dialed Santorum up for destruction, precisely because he's a conservative, in order to send a Big Message to the RiNO's and drive them farther away from the Republican base -- to make them more vulnerable later. This is Rat Master Strategy working, divide et impera, and the GOP is acting like they don't get it yet.
Bush needs to act like he gets it, and that doesn't include acting like a whiteshoe NWO lodge member and a ring-knocking member of the Brotherhood of the Bell.
Your right Texas is not the South it’s the Southwest and the author of this rant is showing his BDS
"Of all the complaints you could make about the man, this is perhaps one of the silliest.
You've got that right!
I have to agree with you. It was a silly complaint. I am a native Texan and we don't really consider ourselves Southerners. We are Texans first and foremost. And Texas does make up a large part of the US southwest so I don't see the problem with what Bush said.