Tea Party wins big in Texas runoff elections

Human Events ^ | 5/28/2014 09:26 AM | John Hayward

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[rstrahan]

Just another typical Texas campaign.

[Vigilanteman]

For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career, as the 68-year-old businessman poured $5 million of his own money into his second losing race against the Tea Party in Texas – the first having cost him $20 million to lose the Senate race in a haze of negative campaigning against another upstart underdog named Ted Cruz. Some campaign strategists in Texas really need to go back to the drawing board.

. . . or Dewhurst could just move to Vermont.

[NFHale]

They just DON’T get it.

There’d be no daylight between the Tea Party and the “established candidates” if those candidates would DO THE JOB they were elected to do.

Represent the people properly, with due diligence, oppose the other side properly, with due diligence, and push back with OUR agenda as hard and forcefully as the other side does.

It’s NOT a real difficult equation to understand...

Glad you Texans are getting it right. God Bless Texas.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Many of us simple folk out here in flyover country were under the impression that private medical records are private, at least until ObamaCare is fully up and running.

And then they will be available to practically any nosy bureaucrat.

[JRandomFreeper]

Perhaps one day we’ll have a relatively calm, statesmanlike contest

Not in Texas. Politics is a full contact sport. At least no-one got shot or hanged in this election.

/johnny

[cpdiii]

“For his part, most observers expect Dewhurst to call it a career,”

Capt. Kirk: “How is Dewhurst doing in sick bay?”

Bones: “He is not pining for the fjords, he is not resting, he is bereft of life, he is no more, he has shuffled off this mortal coil, he is F ing dead.

Capt. Kirk: “What!”

Bones: “He is dead Jim.”

[PapaNew]

If the U.S. doesn’t get its act together and demolish the unconstitutional portion, 80%+, of its federal government, a financially independent, free-market Republic of Texas looks better all the time. But they’ve got some work to do including cutting those high property taxes.

[Resettozero]

There’d be no daylight between the Tea Party and the “established candidates” if those candidates would DO THE JOB they were elected to do.

Represent the people properly, with due diligence, oppose the other side properly, with due diligence, and push back with OUR agenda as hard and forcefully as the other side does.

It’s NOT a real difficult equation to understand...

Glad you Texans are getting it right. God Bless Texas.

Congratulations FReeper Texuns! We in SC hope those you've nominated are elected and prove to be as reliable as your Junior Senator certainly has.

[JRandomFreeper]

With conservative legislation no longer being blocked by Dewhurst and his Democrat buddies, property tax reform is more likely than ever.

If Patrick gets rid of the 2/3rds rule, the Dems won't be able to block it in the Senate.

/johnny

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Someone from Texas may have to answer this:

Wasn’t Dan Patrick a sports announcer on the local SeeBS affiliate, channel 11 in Houston? If he is the same guy, he was very colorful and entertaining. When he did baseball news he would holler “BOOM!” when a homerun was hit. ;-)

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[PapaNew]

I'm loving it.

Texas needs to seriously consider becoming financially independent from the feds. If Texas saw the value of small government and big freedom with a robust free market economy, as I believe at least some in Texas understand, there's no limit to how far Texas could go. If Texas really took freedom seriously, socially, politically, and economically, it wouldn't be long before the feds would have to start borrowing from Texas. But Texas would need to think twice about lending to a downgraded borrower like the U.S.

[JRandomFreeper]

Dems can't win statewide races in Texas right now.

/johnny

[Grams A]

But they’ve got some work to do including cutting those high property taxes.”

AMEN to that! Really getting aggravated. Since they can’t raise the tax rates for those with a Homestead and over 65 exemption, they keep raising the assessed value. Legislature could stop all this nonsense but doubt if they will. And they certainly could do a refund of tax payments from their coffers but they’d rather pump more into the public school system. Not sure they will ever understand that more money has never resulted in better education for public school students.

[GeronL]

So when does Patterson go to jail?

[GeronL]

Sort of like when someone applies for a government job and the county registriar gets called and asked what party they are registered to?

[GeronL]

We can start by trimming the bureaucracy

[SeaHawkFan]

DallasMorning News endorsement = Kiss of Death

Ted Cruz endorsement = victory.

[ModelBreaker]

“There’d be no daylight between the Tea Party and the “established candidates” if those candidates would DO THE JOB they were elected to do.”

But if there weren’t a lot of daylight between them and us, they wouldn’t be able to get big campaign contributions from lobbyists. That’s how a conservative becomes a big-government crony capitalist.