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According to a report in the Washington Post, Ted Cruz, a freshman senator who had never run for office prior to 2012, is already changing the character of his home states GOP.
Just about every [Texas] GOP candidate with aspirations to statewide office in 2014 seems to be styling himself or herself after Cruz, the Post reports, finding that politicians throughout the state are maneuvering to the right, seeking the next big issue to distinguish themselves as adherents to Cruzs unapologetically far-right worldview. Popular rallying points include secession, rolling back the states liberal immigration laws, impeaching President Obama, amending the Constitution to end the direct election of U.S. senators.
The Post finds Cruzs influence even extends to low-level, local races. Some people call me the Ted Cruz of the city council, said one Houston-area politician, who, the Post notes, has recommended the city default on its pension obligations as a way to remedy its fiscal issues.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/24/how_ted_cruz_is_reshaping_the_texas_gop/
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)This will help us turn Texas blue all the faster.
Thank you ted cruz.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)secessionists before Cruz came along.
It went from the party of GW Bush's corrupt petrocracy to Rick Perry's Teahadism.
Ted Cruz did not invent crazy-evil-stupid...Texas was full of these types long before he was born.
SamYeager
(309 posts)They are doomed to die as a viable party in Texas due to demographics.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)any time soon. Even though prosperity theology isn't selling like it used to, there still seems to be an adequate number of butts in the pews to generate a positive cash flow. Hate and spite sell almost as well as magical thinking about money did.
While those preachers are out there and on CBN to fill the heads of the gullible with utter rubbish, there will be an endless supply of crazy people in Texas (and the other hyper religious parts of the country).
SamYeager
(309 posts)Their demographic is dying off while the demographics that typically vote Democratic are growing in Texas.
Might take a decade, but it'll happen.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)and true believer Catholics will vote Republican because of the lip service they're giving to antiabortionism.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)This ought to be fun!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)All Wendy Davis need do in her run for the governor's position is make sure that Abbot (or whoever else) is tied to, and cannot be removed from, this extremist wing of the TX GOP.