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Posted on 05/20/2012 6:26:33 PM PDT by Syncro
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The State of Texas has a “weak governor.” . All the power is in the LT. Gov seat. Texas has thrived, not so much because of Perry, and he is who I would have voted for, but because of the stength of the Lt. Gov office. Dewhurst is a strong Lt. Gov and Texas/U.S. would not suffer if he is to be elected. Cruz is an unknown and just because Palin endorses doesn’t mean jack diddly squat to me. I vote based on my own research and knowledge. I have not decided on who I will select, but I will not go blindly on the endoresement of another politician, as some apparently do.
My understanding is that, in the special session that was called by Gov Perry, David Dewhurst was the driving factor in preventing an affirmative vote on combating illegal immigration and illegal immigrant "rights" in the legislature (along the lines of the Arizona laws). Now, I will grant you that I got most of my information pertaining to this either here on FR or on other conservative websites on the net.
Can you explain to me how a self-described conservative like David Dewhurst could use his position .. and, yes, I understand that the LT GOV is probably one of the most, if not the most, powerful position in Texas government .. to prevent such anti-illegal immigration laws?
As I said, I am asking this question for any additional information that you can provide. Over the years, in the past, I have voted for David Dewhurst for various positions. In this situation, I am inclined to go with Cruz, because of the special session fiasco that David Dewhurst appeared to be responsible for and because of the endorsements that Cruz has received from other people that I do respect.
That wage tax was one of the first lies that Cruz told in his early negative ads.
The wage tax was certainly never proposed by Dewhurst. In fact, Dewhurst objected to that possibility. The WSJ reference that Cruz has used since last fall came from an Op-Ed, not a news article, that was political and aimed at defeating Dewhurst. http://www.tedcruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2005-05-10-WSJ-taxes.pdf
Back in 05/06, the Governor named an independent panel to rework our property and franchise taxes in Texas. In large part, this was due to requirementsnresulting from lawsuits against the State on education and Medicaid spending.
The panel suggested expanding the franchise (business) tax to businesses formerly exempted. The tax would be on gross receipts, whether or not the company made a profit. The Lt. Gov. objected to a tax that would penalize businesses for hiring and offering benefits, and in classic “Big Lie” style, his opponents claimed the exact opposite of what he said.
The Special Session only addresses topics that the Governor puts on the Agenda. For the 82nd SS, the Lege addressed the budget and the TSA anti groping bill. Both were passed by the Senate.
In the regular session, the Senate and the House passed voter ID, prohibited drivers licenses for illegal aliens, and doubled the funding for border control and security.
“Dewhurst says if Americans from Louisiana or Oklahoma or New Mexico aren’t eligible for the lower tuition, it’s not fair to give the break to non-citizens.”
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/lt-governor-david-dewhurst-breaks-with-perry-on-illegal-immigrant-tuition.
Dewhurst said he favored a “liberal immigration policy” that allows needed workers to flow into the United States legally. But, he added later, he does not favor offering citizenship to those who entered the country illegally.
http://www.epcounty.com/judge/StopTalking.htm
I don't know where you have been hanging out, but here at FR virtually all posters vet candidates themselves and don't blindly follow pundits' advice.
Nice to see you do that too.
“If Sarah is picking, Texas should be backing her up.”
Posted by freeper. Not saying all do, but PDS runs both ways. To completely reject Palin, or blindly follow is a form of (blank)DS.
Oh BS, that doesn’t make your point at all.
Liberal spin probably brought on because of your PES.
I see you are one of pissant’s (ZIP) followers.
From “nice to see you do to” to -
“I see you are one of pissant’s (ZIP) followers.”
BTW:
W(ho)tf is pissant?
Liberal Spin? This was direct quote from this thread, post # 12.
More often than not, any thread with Palin as the subject is idol worship. A bit of intellectual honestly goes a long way.
You display the classic symptoms, what with the use of the tired old acronym PDS and the idol worship baloney that was shown to be BS months and months ago
Nice bait, the quote was accurate but your spin was lame.
...any thread with Palin as the subject is idol worship
Come on, stop exposing yourself so blatantly. Be a little more subtle expressing your PES
Thanks for pointing this out
You are welcome!
“Texans do not need anyone from out of state to tell them which conservative can best represent Texas. I would be more confident of taht if you didn’t have already have Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn as senators.”
Interesting you should bring that up. Texas is subject to the seventeenth amendment and same campaign finance laws that give an incumbent so many advantages that re-election is almost guaranteed despite how they vote after promising one thing to get elected and delivering something else entirely.
Hutchison and Cornyn were born and raised speaking liberalese, and taught as Univerity of Texas and St. Mary’s Lawyers to take either side of an issue and debate either side convincingly, and learned to speak conservatism well enough to get themselves elected the first time, which is about all it takes to stay in office.
I predict young Harvard Lawyer Cruz will follow the exact same pattern if he is elected.
You are wrong about that.
Cruz’ false portrayals of Dewhurst in Cruz’ own attack ads as not even being a conservative required that Dewhurst tell the truth about Cruz and his sleazy China connections.
And, everything in the Dewhurst ads exposing Cruz is truthful.
He who fires first must not complain when his victim returns fire.
I’m glad someone finally chimed in with a little backup here because I’ve spent a lot of time on these anti-Dewhurst threads the last week trying to present these people with a dose of real-world.
I’m finding at least three types posting all this anti-Dewhurst pro=Cruz junk - anti-establishment but politically inexperienced people who have jumped on a bandwagon and are looking for a cause, the vote-’em-all-out people who are subject to influence and want to believe Cruz is somehow a different kind of politician and feel he is the underdog, and the true tea-partiers who are trying to build a political team led by Sarah Palin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It continues to look like Dewhurst is Texan for Lowell Weicker. Also note the specific quote from Dewhurst about how any real Texan would gladly pay some obscene new tax if it meant better gummint edumakashun (indoctrination at PS 666) for the children, for the children. That's the kind of drivel which we used to get in Connecticut from that other spoiled denizen of financial privilege Lowell Weicker as he shifted the tax burden from his elitist pals to the kid flipping burgers at Mickey D's. Having participated in the destruction of Weicker in my Connecticut days, I am likely unalterably opposed to Dewhurst. If he is determined to be yet another GOP elitist squishball in the US Senate seeking to be a similar replacement to Kay Bailey Hutchison, a worthy colleague of Cornyn, a footstool of all things "progressive" especially when they burden those of modest means, then in the unfortunate event that he might actually be nominated, it would be better to elect a Democrat (a name brand "progressive") now and a decent Republican in 6 years.
Better yet, nominate and elect Ted Cruz in 2012, smash the GOP-E in the face, and skip the middleman. It is NOT enough for a candidate to call himself a Republican if he has no plans to be other than an elitist moneyed stooge.
Not unlike Romney's campaign, the Dewhurst supporters seem rather silent on any plan to generate GOP enthusiasm and sound public policy. Has Dewhurst a total vacancy in the creative public policy department? Or is it: Vote Dewhurst, he won't do much damage and he won't have ANYTHING to do with all those embarrassing right wing nuts? Isn't it time that the GOP-Elitist cretins had yet ANOTHER Senator? No it is not.
A tax on wages and salaries is NOT a gross receipts tax on business, nor a an increase in property taxes (state property tax???? or local?) or a "franchise tax on businesses." I suspect that the sound way for conservative public officials to deal with leftist pseudoconstitutional dreams and schemes to increase the already obscene funding levels of their gummint indoctrination centers and youth brain laundries as well as impertinent lawsuits and judicial decisions on such subjects is not to come up with new taxes but to remove any positive mention of gummint edumakashun from Texas' state constitution and state legislation and tell the courts to fry ice.
Be all that my daughter in Dallas hopes that Texas can be.
I remember when KBH ran, and everyone pretty much had her number even before she was elected.
I did read your rebuttal of some of Cruz’ (or his PAC’s) ads, and I find them convincing. I also find the rebuttals to Dewhurst’s attacks on Cruz convincing.
I live in Illinois, the state where the establishment chased out our exceptional Senator Peter Fitzgerald, clearing the seat for Obama, and more recently, our most conservative Rep. Don Manzullo, to make way for a collar county establishment type.
We NEED states like Texas and Montana and South Carolina and Alaska to give better than they have been. I am sure that Dewhurst would be better than anyone in Illinois (save maybe Walsh), but for those of us watching on the outside, a Palin endorsement is a pretty good indicator of the movement conservatve candidate (save for those times when there are no great viable candidates, and she picks the girl [e.g. Carly Fiorina]).
Lisa pro-abort "moderate Murkowski!!! John Cornyn: he'll send the campaign cash to the squishball "moderates" and children of privilege!!! LAMAR!!! Alexander and Bob Corker: will make the world safe for investment bankers and to hell with the peasants! Etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum ad nauseam. No need for Dewhurst to do other than retire in favor of an actual conservative as LG and to go away! Dewhurst is favored by George Herbert Walker "New World Order" Bush, Barbara Planned Barrenhood Bush and such. No more sensible argument is needed to defeat Dewhurst. If he was not a thoroughly untrustworthy "moderate" elitist, those two would not touch him with someone else's ten foot pole. Money, money, money. Always, money. No thanks.
No more compromises. No more sellouts. No more tolerance of "moderates." Defeat them in battle. Drive them before us. Spill their entrails upon the earth. Listen to the sweet music of the lamentations of their women. This is the best of life!
Oh, and Cruz attending Harvard Law is a problem? I take it that Yale Law would be the same problem? Where did Robert Bork teach constitutional law? Where did Antonin Scalia attend law school? Clarence Thomas? Samuel Alito? John Roberts and even Sandra Day O'Kennedy? In spite of it aqll, with the occasional exception of O'Kennedy, they have done alright compared to David "Swish" Souter, Sandra Day (She was a pretty blond pro-abort and a product of James Baker's lies to Reagan) O'Connor, John Paul (abortionist) Stevens, Lewis pro-abort Powell and Herod himself Blackmun, each a product of elitist GOP treachery, and they are not the only ones. Some of us actually believe in conservative principles and have had quite enough of the GOP-Elite.
Rule or ruin.
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