FOAD, dude! I find that people who openly wear their Christian faith (like it’s an orange safety vest, as was cleverly stated in recent NYT op-ed) have little room in their hearts for Jesus or his message of love and charity.
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The GOP is tapped out in TX. They Swiss Army knifed the f**k out of the district maps to create a massive advantage but demographic change and erosion among white voters has started to cost them. All these retirements tell us one thing: TX is going to flip blue in 2020. All TX Dems need to do is show up en masse and vote. The numbers are there.
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I haven’t seen anything about Farenthold’s current status since he had to give up his lobbying gig early this year. His former seat is currently held by some Oral Roberts University schmuck, who is in no danger of losing next year’s election because the Democratic Party is seemingly incapable of registering and mobilizing Hispanics in South Texas.
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Joe? Bernie? You still there?
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I think Midland-Odessa was different than all the prior acts of domestic terrorism with guns - a metro region of 300+K was forced to shelter in place for hours bc of just one guy with a gun.
Even if they won’t admit it publicly I think this is sending shockwaves through TX politics - Chamber of Commerce types can’t be happy.
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So much winning! My head is spinning!
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He is/was my Rep. About as smart as this rock sitting here on my desk.
Cant say I will miss him one bit. Now if we can just get a good Dem candidate things could get better.
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As a resident of his district,I understand your request.
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Any system that works on minority rule isn’t democracy, regardless of the winner.
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Kind of wonder why we need elected officials in Texas. We should just be able to get the Pope’s opinion and give him all their votes.
Since, you know, Jesus does all their thinking for them. May as well go to the guy with the giant hat to hide his God Antenna.
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Yes they are. I have no problem with that either.
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We need to define what “turn blue” actually means. To me, voting for a Democratic President in one election cycle, isn’t turning blue. Flipping the state legislature, the Senate and House representation and the majority of state wide offices, is turning blue.
That being said, when Texas does eventually start going down that path, its going to flip very quickly. And once it does, it will stay Blue for a long time. That’s basically how it turned red…nearly every state politician changed parties to republican almost overnight.
Texas has been, and will continue to be, a one party state.
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The numbers have actually been here awhile now. As a longtime,lifelong Texas Dem,that has frustrated me to no end in the last decade. The 2010 election was a killer here.
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I’d be happy with purple right now.
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Oh, well, yes, I guess that would work.
More realistically, Texas has a small chance of voting for the Democratic presidential candidate next year, but it would take a blue wave dwarfing the size of 2018. I know Beto came within about 3 points of beating Cruz statewide last year, but the other statewide races were still anywhere from 5- to 15-point wins for the bad guys. Trump might be broadly unpopular enough to get beat in Texas. I wouldn’t count on it, however, after the GOP shit-slinging machine gets teed up on whoever the Dem nominee ends up being. If the Dem wins Texas, it will already have been a historic electoral rout (which it might well be!).
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Bye, Jethro.
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I would love it if we were finally at the tipping point for Texas to flip blue, but I will believe it when I see it.
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Throw Manbaby from the Train?
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God made him do it. Allrightythen.
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