At first he denied ever fund raising for them or giving to them, but then this photo surfaced of him doing just that (but not at his home), and he was then forced to remember it, and his wife's donation.
Posted on 07/08/2014 9:50:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
You left out the part most major Texas population centers are Liberal. The voting dynamics in the south changed from the 1960's - present. Dems used to prevail but Dems in the south were more conservative. In the 1960's the southern DEMs were Wallace Democrats except for Texas which really isn't considered southern but western where Johnson DEMs prevailed. LBJ was a senator before he was Vice POTUS. As the cites in Texas grew they attracted Liberal voters from all sides. Drive a few miles outside of town and you're back in Red State Texas.
Being elected twice as governor has little meaning as far as GOP Conservative credentials. Case in point Don Sundquist the former governor of Tennessee was elected twice. I doubt you can find even one Tennessee Freeper who voted for him twice or liked him. He was so horrible he touched off a Conservative Tax Rebellion against him & the DEM who followed was more fiscal conservative. Sundquist was pals with Alexander, Corker, and likely got support from our current GOP RINO governors family as well.
Romney never left the republican party. Nor did he run as a pro abortion presidential candidate.
You live in a fantasy world.
Anything about Obama bother you?
Yeah right GOP governors of Texas are liberals elected by the inner cities. Exactly.
LOL, so the left gave Texas their first two term Republican Governor because they wanted to get rid of Ann Richards.
Way to go liberals.
Those must be the liberals who made my stepdad the first republican to win his office in his Texas county, in history.
Then why does he tell us that he did, "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush."
What about the records and his campaign response? ""According to a Romney campaign spokesperson, Romney “switched back.” One doesn’t know how Romney managed to “switch back.” According to the town clerk, Romney became an Republican only on October 19, 1993. The implication is that Romney had either never voted between his registration as a independent in 1979 and 1992 (so his vote in 1992 automatically enrolled him as a Democrat) or that he was a regular Democrat voters in those earlier elections and changed to Republican to run for Senate.""
blah blah blah. The “implication”.
Did you ever hear of Barack Hussein Obama? How’s that working for you?
You don’t obsess over Obama this much, do you? That’s odd.
You give your Master, Romney, too much credit.
The “implication”?
Mitt telling us that he was an Independent, the records of donations and fund raising, the voting records when he voted democrat, and the official records of him switching his registration to republican in October of 1993, and his campaign and he admitting those things, where is anything “implied”?
didn’t he have Planned Parenthood fundraisers in his home or something?
At first he denied ever fund raising for them or giving to them, but then this photo surfaced of him doing just that (but not at his home), and he was then forced to remember it, and his wife's donation.
The GOP-E has no interest in the Conservative side of the party and will use DEMs to stop them just as Dems will use RINO's and back them when they know their own candidate can not win. For the Dems side having A RINO in office undermining the party is as good and in some cases better than holding the actual seat itself.
One thing about Texas. It has an almost consistent high turnover in population 1000 a day I read somewhere last night.
It still boils down to this. The GOP-E has taken the GOP further and further left especially fast tracked since Reagan left office. Reagan would not recognize the GOP-E of today as likely even being Republican but rather the Democratic Party he left.
If he read their idea or agenda he'd likely think a DEM wrote it. JFK if alive today born much later ran on the same platform today as he did in 1960 would be too Conservative for the current GOP-E taste and the GOP-E owns the party and the GOP-E is owned by the one and same donors to the DEMs.
This party with a party fight within the GOP has been going on since the days of Teddy Roosevelt/McKinley primary and the behind the scenes manipulation by the likes of Carnegie, JP Morgan, and Rockefeller among a few.
This party with a party fight within the GOP has been going on since the days of Teddy Roosevelt/McKinley primary and the behind the scenes manipulation by the likes of Carnegie, JP Morgan, and Rockefeller among a few.
Most of those Manhattan Rockefeller types became Democrats during the Clinton years or thereabouts. Wall Street gives to both parties, sure, but it's not like they have any kind of lock on Republicans -- most of Wall Street prefer the Democrats.
It's not the same as it once was. Northeastern Republicans are pretty scarce in Congress nowadays. People complain nowadays about GOP-E Senators or Congressmen from Utah or Arizona or South Carolina. That would have been unthinkable in Goldwater's day.
Maybe it's time to update the rhetoric and recognize that while there are still "Country Club" Republicans, they're more likely to come from your own home town than from some faraway metropolis at the other end of the continent and more likely to be car dealers and branch managers than the plutocrats so many people are up in arms about.
See post 84, Texan George W, did pretty well in Texas.
He defeated incumbent Ann Richards and not because of liberal voters.
August 27, 2012 CBS interview with Scott Pelley:
PELLEY: Well, the platform as written at this convention for the Republicans does not allow for exceptions on abortion with regard to the health of the mother or rape or incest. Is that where you are?
ROMNEY: No. My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother. =========================================================
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — On the same day the second U.S. presidential debate was held, Mitt Romney’s campaign has released a new television ad suggesting the Republican hopeful believes abortion “should be an option” in certain cases.
Why did Iraq become a nation building boondoggle and payola for contractors instead of a military focused mission?
Why hasn't an actual conservative {not just fiscal conservative} and Liberal within the party shared the POTUS ticket since 1984?
Really a lot of the longtime DEMs jumped off their party in about 1994 and brought their Liberalism with them. BY 1996 The Liberals owned it with a coup and full takeover of every GOP convention since 1996. How did Boehner come to power? How did Newt get forced out? What happened? Who was helping whom to what to whom and why? What two NY state congresscritters were big players? Who was Bill Paxon? Who was his wife? What was her role in the 1996 GOP Convention? Where are they now?
But facts are facts.
You can deny them all you want.
Governor wise Texas GOP has been pretty much the same as Tennessee the past few decades. Only difference is in Tennessee the governor holds a lot more power in state government and can do a lot more harm.
Go for it....
I for one...won't support him nor give any MONEY to any GOPe candidate again!!!
Whatever that has to do with anything I posted about.
Simply this. When Rick Perry mobilizes the state militia and NG to the border to secure it then I’ll say you have your first genuine Conservative governor in many decades.
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