There is very little point in seceding if George Bush or anyone like him becomes President of the Texas Republic. Unfortunately, today that would be a serious prospect. We need to purge Blue State thinking here - meaning, for example, that we no longer consider people like Bush, Hutchinson, or Perry to be serious candidates for political office (not to mention all the RHINOs in Austin). I’ll listen to political secession talk after more Texans have intellectually seceded from the USSA.