Now, can I interest you in some oceanfront property in Ohio? I have some wonderful prices.
"Now the DNC can blow all their money in one place!"
Outstanding point. ;D!
Now, can I interest you in some oceanfront property in Ohio? I have some wonderful prices.
Dean has no lock -- in fact, not even a grip -- on sanity.
No one spends money in Texas, not even the RNC. Although they did campaign HARD for those new Congressional Districts.
I had to bring down Bush Signs and Stickers for my family from Minnesota. They were the only ones in thier neighborhood with any kind of a sign
Wow man. That is like, so profound and stuff.
Indian physicians? --- a hugh voting bloc in Texas. Appears he missed the Cambodian nail techs though.
Repubs do have a lock on Texas and Dean will NEVER get the keys to it.
If they don't now, they will by the time Howard completes his tour.
I'm a Texan that is old enough to remember a time when Texas was a democratic state. Back in LBJ's heyday Texas was considered very democratic.
But those days have gone and as long as the dims continue to put the "girly men" socialists they keep putting forward it will never be democratic again.
If the rats think getting mad and upset because a terrorist is too hot or too cold is going to play in Texas or that this country is the equivalent of nazi Germany or the USSR. They will waste their words and money campaining in Texas.
Texans believe in the USA and we believe in self defense. If you mess with Texas be prepared to get messed with in return. If the muslim terrorists don't like it they can crawl back under their rocks, if they continue their attacks they can expect Texans to kill them where ever they hide............
Unfortunately, Cuckoo Dean is partially right....scary! :(
Shut down the ballot fraud and the dims will lose almost everything that they still have in Texas. Good examples include Beaumont, the Lower Valley, and inner city Houston. Scrub the dead, felons, and phantoms off the rolls. I hate to say it, but not enough Republicans are volunteering. Last November I took the training and became an Alternate Election Judge. The precinct they sent me to was 65% Republican, yet ALL of the election crew was Democrat. They had run that precinct for every election for many years. They were amazed when I showed up. Think of the effect if we had a Republican judge and a crew of pool watchers in every dim precinct in Texas. Based on my experience, at least 10% of the votes in most dim precincts are fraudulent. Its been enough to swing important elections. Fellow Freepers, get out there and VOLUNTEER!
Oops, typo attack. Pool = poll.
Democrats hope road back to power runs through Austin
Members of progressive wing of party descend on town to talk shop.
About 900 Democrats from across the country and other nations came to Austin for the three-day DemocracyFest training conference at Huston-Tillotson University. Liane Allen, left, and Charlie Thompson exchanged information Friday, while Gina Starr-Hill hung up her group's results.
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, June 18, 2005
The long road back to political power may start beneath a live oak tree beside the chapel on the Huston-Tillotson University campus. Friday morning, groups of Democratic activists gathered in its shade to plan the national turf wars still years away.
"We've got to establish the message of the Democratic party: that we're not against America, that we're not immoral people," Sandra Brown, a committed Democrat from Galveston County, said. "We've been relying on Republicans to define us."
The activists, more than 900 of them all told from 36 states as well as the District of Columbia, Japan and France, have descended on Austin for DemocracyFest 2005, a three-day convention of progressive politics that is one part kvetch and two parts prep.
They have brought their donkey shirts, their American flag koozies and their buttons with "DeLay" in strike- through.
If November's losses make them seem a bit like a rebel guerilla force putting together forest tactics, the event also marks their willingness to go on the attack again, the wounds from their previous battle finally healing.
Tonight, Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and in many ways a near-religious figure for these pilgrims, headlines a celebration at Stubb's Bar-B-Q.
The festival aims to engage the grass roots in a nonelection year and to improve the electability — to borrow a commonly heard word in 2004 — of the progressive wing of the party.
In policy discussions such as "How the left can reclaim a moral foundation," organizers are hoping to prompt discussion that translates into platform changes.
And in meetings like "Candidate Development," "Turning Red States Blue," and "Projecting Turnout for Your Race," they will discuss how to win back blocs of the Hispanic vote, how to shorten their message and even how to talk to Republicans.
"We've got to quit having such good manners," said Carolyn Moon, a precinct chairwoman in Nueces County who actually owns a yellow dog. "If it wasn't for those damn Yankees, this state is Democratic."
Anybody north of the Nueces River, Moon explained, is a Yankee.
Dean founded Democracy for America last year after he lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. Its base is "socially progressive and fiscally responsible," said Fran Vincent, director of the Texas chapter.
Some of these delegates, the self-described Deaniacs, found themselves in the position of being at odds with a centrist streak in their own party and scorned by the Republicans who paint them as radicals.
"They think we're the outcasts of the party," is how Sal Liccione, a Democratic political operative from Westport, Conn., summed up the relationship between progressives and the party old guard in his state.
Meshing the viewpoints is one of the challenges Democrats face in coming years.
"We're regrouping," Liccione said.
The state Republican chairwoman, for her part, has called DemocracyFest part of the "Howard Dean Insult and Alienate America Tour."
"In Texas, Dean will find what everyone else already knows: that under a decade of Republican leadership, we are one of the most diverse and prosperous states in the country," the chairwoman, Tina Benkiser, said in a statement.
"I recommend that Howard Dean enjoy our Southern hospitality for a short time while taking note of the fact that Texans have rejected his liberal Democrat ideas and that Democrats don't win elections in Texas."
Some of the discussion Friday indeed revealed just how much Democrats' fortunes have dwindled across a state that once sent a Hill Country boy to the White House.
In a session about "How to be a state leader," DeeJay Johannessen of Tarrant County urged Democrats to open booths at local festivals, just to let rural Democrats know that other Democrats still exist.
Dean lives in an alternative universe.
Me too, Howie 
But .. when Dean gets through insulting voters .. the GOP will have a HUGE LOCK ON TEXAS.
I'm looking forward to Dr. Zowie criss-crossing Texas, telling everyone to "forget about God, guns, and gays!" That'll either put Texas in play, or else it'll get Zowie's ass shot off. My money's on the latter.
Texas - Republican. Florida - Republican. India? I'm not too sure...
Dean reminds me of a couple of teachers I use to have that did not know what was actually going on in the class room most of the time.
