Texas Senate Loses Yet Another Moderate

texasobserver.org ^ | 5/19/14 | Christopher Hooks

[Enterprise]

Moderates wear pink boxer shorts with bunnies, kitties, and unicorns.

[cotton1706]

They were listening to the wrong jokers from up north then. The constitution of MA was written by John Adams himself, and he always recommended a strong executive, checked by the other powers of course.

[JRandomFreeper]

We didn't have a choice during Reconstruction. It was forced on us. The entire Texas Constitution needs to be re-written to fit on 4 double-spaced, typewritten pages.

/johnny

[Milton Miteybad]

The political changes instituted in the southern states during Reconstruction, you may recall, were not voluntary. Mr. Adams was no longer in a position to offer his wise counsel by that time, and further, it appears that every person from Massachusetts who may have been in a position to influence the Reconstruction reform process in Texas in the 1870s couldn't have cared less what Mr. Adams may have thought about the need for a strong executive. Either that, or they had forgotten it or failed to learn it in the first place.

Besides...in Texas, we do have a strong executive. It's just not the Governor. And it hasn't held us back a bit.

[SADMILLIE]

Adios. Texas Tech has a problem. We Don’t like these weenies. and we stop giving. We are legion.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If Texas keeps going more conservative, they will become so prosperous they might buy California and sell it to Mexico.

[albie]

No such thing as a “moderate”.

[servantboy777]

Don’t let the door hit’cha in the rear end on the way out.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Isn't moderate just another word for RINO?

No. Moderate is simply a false narrative pushed by the Left to goad Republicans into giving up their principles. It creates a fabricated political plain in which that the "middle" (i.e. liberalism) is mainstream and that Republicans need to be in order to appeal to voters and win. Of course, nothing is said of Democrats who remain true to their liberal philosophy.

The fact that Republicans keep falling for this crap, and then scratches their heads and wonder why they still lose election, is beyond me.

[VerySadAmerican]

If Texas Monthly praised him.....

[freedumb2003]

>>Isn’t moderate just another word for RINO?<<

Votes
Always
Government
INterests
Only

VAGINO...

[denydenydeny]

The magazine raved about his “credibility, calm, and collegiality.”

Aka, his willingness to be rolled by Democrats.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Duncan, a veteran of the Texas Senate, was no liberal. But he was more moderate than many of his colleagues in the Senate GOP caucus, and he was seen as a force for stability by Senate watchers.

Odd how nobody ever mentions that if conservatives get the majority in the Texas Senate, it would be every bit as "stable", if not more so.

[Mastador1]

You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.

[freedumb2003]

>>You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.<<

Oh, yeah, I thought about “Anytime.” But nowadays everything is something something “-O”

Thus VAGINO...

[luvie]

From your fingers to God’s eyes!

[Antoninus II]

We didn't have a choice during Reconstruction.

The US Congress was in full blown punishment/payback mode. Especially due to Lincoln's death.

[Antoninus II]

Ben Butler was an early taste of what was ahead if the Confederacy fell...

[Clump]

We had a Governor here in TX many moons ago (Ferguson) who was caught selling pardons.
The Governor hasn’t had the power since.

[2001convSVT]

Close the boarder and open carry here we come!