Posted on 08/12/2008 1:03:13 PM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
...and becomes the laughing stock of Texas politics. He has nary a dime in the bank and now we find out he needs an entire tech support team to run a simple webcast. Dallas Morning News has the story. But the beginning is the best part:
There he was, trying to attract Texans' attention by holding a Webcast town hall meeting to answer voter questions about his U.S. Senate race.
Two minutes later, Democrat Rick Noriega's show turned to static. Lots of static. Then the camera tilted upside down. Then more static. The screen went to black. A few voters' questions could be heard, but Noriega's answers were often interrupted by audio and video glitches. Priceless. But it appears that technical know how isn't the only thing lacking in the Noriega camp. It appears they're also losing their grip on reality. The Noriega camp has taken to calling their troubles "hiccups" and "growing pains", which is an understatement on par with calling Barack Obama "minimally experienced". In order for a campaign to experience "growing pains" there is a reasonable expectation that the campaign would need to be growing in the first place. I'd say the Noriega campaign is short on "growing" and heavy on the "pains"...
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Conservative Republicans in Texas should be very worried. Our population is exploding - not only from the continued flow of illegals to our three major Sanctuary Cities of Houston, Dallas and San Antonio - but also because of a large influx of people from the north and east parts of the U.S. who also bring a different kind of garbage in the form of their liberal ideas with them. Austin is becoming over-the-top liberal. Both presidential candidates court the Latino vote and want to make them all voting citizens. Cornyn should win this year - I wouldn’t take bets on Hutchison’s seat when it comes up for election next time around. Members of the old Republican guard are aging and I don’t see many stepping up to take their place. Dark days ahead!
I respectfully disagree. Although there has been an influx in the hispanic population, there are very few candidates who can motivate them to show up on election day. Additionally, there are a significant amount of College Republican / Young Republican groups sprouting up and in existance across the state. I expect Texas to stay red for a while.
Guess we’ll see. Hope you’re right.
I was in the Valley earlier this week and folks appear to be pissed at Demo rep who won’t support offshore drilling. This oughta be a safe seat for a Latino dem incumbent.
I was in the Valley earlier this week and folks appear to be pissed at Demo rep who won’t support offshore drilling. This oughta be a safe seat for a Latino dem incumbent.
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