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TXGOP's death rattle (and no Medicaid for them)
Give them credit for getting it. The problem is that they're using the same old tried and true scare tactics to motivate the paranoid-enough-already base.
Sick of losing on Election Day, they huddled candidates on their 2014 statewide ticket in a hotel ballroom and bristled at being outspent and outnumbered by political rivals in Texas who they talked up as sophisticated and savvy.
But this was no meeting of hapless Texas Democrats.
They were top Republicans, including George P. Bush and Gov. Rick Perry's possible successor, bemoaning big cities such as Houston already voting Democrat and sounding alarms about the brains behind President Barack Obama's re-election now trying to turn Texas entirely blue.
In a sharp pivot from a decade of Republican swagger in Texas a bravado that comes with controlling every statewide office conservatives are muffling mocking tones about Democrats and now openly calling them formidable. The worries come through in political ads that urge donors to "Keep Texas Red" and rallies like one in Houston that vowed to "Take Back Harris County."
But this was no meeting of hapless Texas Democrats.
They were top Republicans, including George P. Bush and Gov. Rick Perry's possible successor, bemoaning big cities such as Houston already voting Democrat and sounding alarms about the brains behind President Barack Obama's re-election now trying to turn Texas entirely blue.
In a sharp pivot from a decade of Republican swagger in Texas a bravado that comes with controlling every statewide office conservatives are muffling mocking tones about Democrats and now openly calling them formidable. The worries come through in political ads that urge donors to "Keep Texas Red" and rallies like one in Houston that vowed to "Take Back Harris County."
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http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2013/12/txgops-death-rattle-and-no-medicaid-for.html
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/texas/article/GOP-rules-Texas-but-talking-like-they-re-on-ropes-5023790.php?t=312fc07e76184ed18d
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TXGOP's death rattle (and no Medicaid for them) (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2013
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ananda
(28,860 posts)1. They'll never get Harris County, nor any of the big cities.
That won't happen.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)3. Nope. Definitely NOT Bexar County/San Antonio.
This city is growing by leaps and bounds, and we are definitely BLUE.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. Yeah right
Every statewide office is held by repubs. They have held the governorship for almost 20 years. They hold the large majority of house seats and both senate seats. Some death rattle.