Posted on 03/22/2013 9:01:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Recently, Republican Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Terry Branstad of Iowa appealed to those wanting to flee liberal California. “Move your business to our state,” they implore. “We’ll welcome you with open arms here.” They should be careful what they wish for.
When my wife and I used to vacation in Colorado in the 1970s, I started noticing bumper stickers that read “Don’t Californicate Colorado.” The initial movement that spawned that sentiment was a way for Colorado residents to express their disapproval of how Southern California had exploded with seemingly unlimited development. However, since that time, “Californicate” has taken on a whole new meaning.
In September 2011, a frustrated but perceptive blogger at the libertarian website “Western Hero” summed up the feelings of many in Colorado thusly: “We used to be a good mix of libertarian liberals and conservatives with a live and let live attitude. Not anymore. We’re now getting stupider, and this is being powered by the mass influx of east coast and west coast liberals into the liberal loon town of Denver. You can see evidence of this in online forums. Enlightened progressives sing Obama’s praises and remark what an east coast feel Denver has, and they are right. It is now easily the least ‘Colorado’ part of the state. Reminds me of the old saying: Half the people of Colorado live in Denver, and the rest of us are glad they do!”
They may live in Denver, but their ideology has spread like a cancer to every area of the state, mainly because liberals always think they know better how to run everyone else’s life, and they are more than happy to do so.
Former Denver Mayor and now Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is no exception. Hickenlooper is now parroting Barack Obama while wringing his hands about gun violence and repeating the line, “If it saves just one life, we have to do something!”
Unfortunately, Colorado is not alone in its drift to the left. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll, one of the ten most liberal states in the country is now New Hampshire. That’s right. The “Live Free or Die!” state. So what happened? Massachusetts happened, that’s what. Residents of the Bay State, including business owners fleeing from crushing taxes and regulations, moved to New Hampshire. All was fine…for a while. New Hampshire was happy to have the business, and they welcomed their new neighbors.
Then, inevitably, election seasons began to roll around, and those self-transplants from Massachusetts began to vote for the same sort of meddling liberal politicians who had enslaved them and their businesses back home. And so, in 2012, New Hampshire helped re-elect Barack Obama and gained the dubious distinction of becoming one of the top ten most liberal states in the country.
Finally, consider California itself. The Golden State, which once gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (the last Republican presidential candidate to carry it), has become the land of Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Jerry Brown. And the invasion of illegal aliens has all but ensured that it will take a miracle for the GOP ever to carry the state again.
In the case of Texas, it is one of the last holdouts for freedom, as evidenced by the 2012 election of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. It is fiscally and socially conservative, with no state income tax and with perhaps as many guns in private hands as in the rest of the nation combined.
Iowa is more of a mixed bag. In fact, the voters are almost schizophrenic in their voting patterns. Branstad was returned to office in 2010 after 12 years of Democratic governors, but the state went for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Like Minnesota to its north, the Hawkeye State elects a conservative like Chuck Grassley to the U.S. Senate one cycle and a liberal like Tom Harkin the next. Yet, when the Iowa Supreme Court arbitrarily legalized same sex marriage a few years ago, the voters mobilized to throw half the court off the bench.
In any case, both Perry and Branstad should be very careful what they wish for. Like New Hampshire, they just might get it.
OFA is targeting Texas big time, and also a part of why amnesty has a huge push.
If Texas no longer is a lock for the GOP, then it’s game over.
All the more reasons Texas should adhere to being a Republic, even if they have to print their own money and make abolish the democratic party as well.
They can come from kalifornia but their liberal stance stops at the boarder.
Seriously, if they don’t Texas will become infected with the same cancer as Colorado.
liberals are like a cancer. Once they have invaded a healthy area of the country and sucked the life out of it, they move on to another healthy area of the country. The next logical area for them to invade is Texas.
Well, that's really it. It isn't so much about transplanted ideologies as it is the intended effect of public education in all 50 states. Once the Left takes aim at a state, they find it relatively easy to subvert its historical culture and move it Left - the average voter is utterly ignorant of history and civics and can be easily persuaded to support liberal candidates when promised free stuff.
Howard County Maryland TSR,
I been here since 1980s back when it was conservative and now its ruined,
Totally Balkan-ized
Promote Civility
exactly the left have TX and AZ, FL in their sights, and they know if they get them then we will be ran by a radical socialist regime.
Sems TX and Perry know this and are saying to conservatives get the hell out of your liberal northern and CA cess pits and get here and keep us red.
Imagine if two million conservatives from the north moved south and east, then as long as we keep VA, FL, CO, TX, NC, OH then it;s game over for them too.
Course most conservatives won;t do that and will remain paying taxes to their socialist states and say family, work house is the reason.
For the record, my wife did move south, she left family, work, house and I left mine too
For the record, my wife did move south, she left family, work, house and I left mine too
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We did, too! Work, house, and family!
Today’s Balkans have a more homogeneous society than the US has.
Exactly
I live in Maryland on the East Coast and that is exactly what I see here and why the Dems here have total control. No common thread against them.
My county was still R even 10 years ago. Massive immigration (massive development housing them here) of many cultures with the liberalization of America has turned into a unopposed progressive Mecca.
Thirty years ago some of us were saying “Gain a restaurant, lose a nation”.
Texas basically already is a blue state. Nothing would improve our government more than their radical left wing Senator being removed. He is packing our government with Chaffee/Specter/Crist Republicans and eliminating conservatives. No current senator has damaged our country more than him. I don’t agree with the Bushes on much, but he was right when he said Texas would be a blue state in 2016.
All anyone needs to so is look at Brooklyn and Hipsters.
Go to www.Diehipster.com
Unfortunately this man threw in the towel. But skip thr humor and look at what they did to the place and HOW they did it.
That mentality is the core of liberalism and how it usurps entire areas.
No joke. check it out.
Easily cancelled by a stupid congress with the amnesty bill, if not that then an EO will do.
Another good example is the once deep red state of North Carolina is turning a shade of blue. Won’t be long and it will be history for the GOP. And Texas is well on its way.
Forget Mexico. Put the border fence around California.
Then you have Alaska that continues to attract conservatives from all over; the Repubs have a lock on politics up here. I really believe the reason is people move to Ak for the outdoor lifestyle (hunting, fishing, rural freedom loving types).
there and the Potamac river.
They;re like locusts who ruin one area and then move on mass to other nice areas only to ruin those new states again.
good for you, shame others don;t do it instead of giving their money to the socialist states and then thinking their votes account for anything.
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