Texas Democrats' conservatism widespread outside of Austin

Austin American-Statesman ^ | July 27, 2011 | Jason Stanford

[winner3000]

(Texas Democrats are more conservative than Democrats in Georgia, but more moderate than Democrats in Alabama and Mississippi....Austin Democrats might have more in common with our moderate Republican neighbors than with our partisan brothers from out of town...Here in Austin, we all know Republicans who are pro-choice. But in Texas, 43 percent of Democratic primary voters are anti-abortion rights.)

These Demo political hacks sure got the language down pat, and we should challenge them on it every single time, so that they think twice before they use such propaganda again:
Conservative vs. Moderate (to be more truthful, the last one should be called “Godless Commy?”)...Pro-choice vs. anti-abortion rights! How would they feel if we made distinction between pro-life and pro-baby killing?

[BillyBoy]

I guess pandering to illegal aliens makes one a tea-party conservative now. ;-) Perry’s record on immigration is much worse than Huckabee’s, and we know what freepers had to say about him. And I would rate his record on taxes about on par with Huckabee, possibly worse because both raised some taxes on services but Perry never went after the RATs “tax the rich” rhetoric like Huckabee did.

If I had to rank the presidential candidates solely on the “how conservative” criteria, Perry would actually end up somewhere in the middle. I go by how they actually governed and what they stood for, now what kind of soundbites they can deliver at tea party rallies. Hence a positively mild low-key guy like Pawlenty is ranked above Perry, because Pawlenty had a more reliable track record, stood by his conservative platform with a far less receptive audience, and never went out of his way to endorse liberals:

1. Michele Bachmann
2. Thaddeus McCotter
3. Rick Santorum
4. Tim Pawlenty
5. Buddy Roemer
6. Herman Cain
7. Rick Perry
8. Newt Gingrich
9. Ron Paul
10. Gary Johnson
11. Mitt Romney
12. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
13. Barack Obama

Bachmann’s gone up in my book, Cain’s been a real disappointment for me this cycle, Johnson would be ranked higher if he wasn’t absolutely wrong on several key issues, and McCotter is intriguing if another long shot. Anyone who tries to punt the responcibility of dealing with hot button issues by saying “send it back to the states” goes down in book. I suspect most of these guys are just saying that so they don’t have to on record about what they’d do, rather than out of some kind of revered respect for federalism and the balence of power (as was demonstrated last time now that “federalist Fred” is supporting the unconstiutional popular vote compact) Roemer (freeper Phil Collin’s endorsed candidate) was hard to place but I don’t expect he’ll last long in the primaries. I didn’t rank Palin (or Christie, or anyone else) because I don’t think she’s running.

Of course the biggest argument for Perry is that he’s supposedly “more electable”, and it’s a good thing we’re not ranking them on “ablity to win votes”, because Perry actually ends up much worse on that list. Nearly ever elected candidate in the race has won tougher elections than him, even has beens like Santorum.

[stevie_d_64]

That would be a good thing to hang on a person who is “pro-choice”...