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by Todd Domke is a Boston-area Republican political analyst, public relations strategist, and author. [AND Romney supporter????]
Posted on 07/29/2011 3:20:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It’s not exactly a “Left Behind” story, but there were a fair number of conservative policy wonks and political operators in Texas who didn’t catch the train to Washington in 2000. Now, as Gov. Rick Perry dances closer and closer to the presidential flame, those Texas Republicans might get another chance.
The conventional wisdom just a few months ago was that the rest of the country was weary of Texans, that even if they were in a mood to put a Republican back in the White House, nobody with boots should apply for the job.
But maybe 2012 is like 1980, and the same electorate that voted for Ronald Reagan only eight years after voting for a fellow Californian, Richard M. Nixon, might vote for Mr. Perry eight years after electing George W. Bush.
The Texas Republican Party’s fortunes, and its candidates, rose through the years in a series that might be called “firsts since Reconstruction” — first Republican state treasurer since, first agriculture commissioner since, then lieutenant governor, land commissioner and so on. Texas Republicans haven’t lost a statewide election since 1994, and their decade of ascent was capped by Mr. Bush’s election to the presidency in 2000.
It was like a startup company. People who hired on when there was no real good reason to think being a Texas Republican was a good idea — back in the 1980s, say — found themselves on the plane to Washington to head government agencies, run regulatory boards, staff the White House and the political campaigns for Republicans from all over the country, and got a disproportionate share of the most coveted ambassadorial postings.
For a long time, Republican operatives in Texas all shared Genesis stories:
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by Todd Domke is a Boston-area Republican political analyst, public relations strategist, and author. [AND Romney supporter????]
It worries me that the media haven’t shown a vitriolic hatred for Perry.
Mitt Romeny speaks to supporters at a GOP picnic, Friday May 27, 2011
in Cedar Rapids.(Becky Malewitz/SourceMedia Group News)
Then you didn't read the articles and/or are stumping for another candidate.
Perry should just be happy to stay in TX
Why should he when the polls show him doing so well despite not having announced and having low name recognition?
If you need to read the articles to see the hate, there’s negligible hate.
You don’t need to read the articles to see the hate on other candidates. It eminates, like the stench from an open air sewage plant. It’s palpable.
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