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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:12 PM Oct 2013

How Ted Cruz is reshaping the Texas GOP

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 state’s 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 Cruz’s unapologetically far-right worldview. Popular rallying points include “secession, rolling back the state’s liberal immigration laws, impeaching President Obama, amending the Constitution to end the direct election of U.S. senators.”

The Post finds Cruz’s 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/

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How Ted Cruz is reshaping the Texas GOP (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
Excellent news LondonReign2 Oct 2013 #1
Texas Republicans were already a bunch of crazy, rightwing, assholish geek tragedy Oct 2013 #2
Exactly. Rex Oct 2013 #5
If they cater to the insane people SamYeager Oct 2013 #3
Dunno, I don't see the pompadoured preachers going out of business Warpy Oct 2013 #6
Teh demographic changes in Texas dictate that they will go out of business eventually SamYeager Oct 2013 #7
Dunno, they're getting Hispanic converts Warpy Oct 2013 #9
Oh, great!! dorkzilla Oct 2013 #4
Buch of goat ropers nt Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #8
All Wendy Davis need do in her run for the governor's position is make sure that Abbot LanternWaste Oct 2013 #10
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
2. Texas Republicans were already a bunch of crazy, rightwing, assholish
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:15 PM
Oct 2013

secessionists before Cruz came along.

It went from the party of GW Bush's corrupt petrocracy to Rick Perry's Teahadism.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. Exactly.
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:17 PM
Oct 2013

Ted Cruz did not invent crazy-evil-stupid...Texas was full of these types long before he was born.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
6. Dunno, I don't see the pompadoured preachers going out of business
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:42 PM
Oct 2013

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)
7. Teh demographic changes in Texas dictate that they will go out of business eventually
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:44 PM
Oct 2013

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)
9. Dunno, they're getting Hispanic converts
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:47 PM
Oct 2013

and true believer Catholics will vote Republican because of the lip service they're giving to antiabortionism.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
10. All Wendy Davis need do in her run for the governor's position is make sure that Abbot
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:47 PM
Oct 2013

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.

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