A sobering reminder to the GOP regarding Texas...

[blackhawk]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sassy my lassy, we are talking about the future

That simple factor (that we're talking about the future 2020 or 2024) simply escapes the right wing morons...as the Irish Lass certainly is.

See? Anytime someone disagrees with you off you go with your name calling, it's really time to grow up. If you can't take it stop posting your nonsense

You are a name caller, you hairy back wench. If you can't take it, don't do it.

Yes, Texas will stay Red this year and beginning in 2020 it becomes light purple. If Cruz gets the nomination, it will go Cruz. If he does not, who knows?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Keep in mind that republicans need to "defend" more than 2 dozen Senate seats this year......

...AND, As an added "unforced error", Trump JUNIOR's speech the other night derided public school teachers, so there goes yet another constituency within the anti-Trump brigade.

^^^ Thinks public school teachers vote anything but what their unions tell them to vote

That kind of statement is why thinking people laugh at you. The union heads are liberal, but most of the teachers are centrist or right of center.

 

[JakeStarkey]

What's the point? Americans have been painfully aware of the radicalism in Texas since five Police Officers were assassinated but Texas is bigger than radicalism. The sad thing is that George Will hasn't been "right" about much in the last decade. He turned out to be an establishment hack after all.

George Will has been absolutely right, and the far right absolutely wrong.

 

[JakeStarkey]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

No, we have not.

 

[ptbw forever]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The stupidest statement of they day is, ""pander to minorities more and bash white people like Democrats do, because we swear it will work this time"."

 

[ptbw forever]

What's the point? Americans have been painfully aware of the radicalism in Texas since five Police Officers were assassinated but Texas is bigger than radicalism. The sad thing is that George Will hasn't been "right" about much in the last decade. He turned out to be an establishment hack after all.

George Will has been absolutely right, and the far right absolutely wrong.

McCarthy literally had the Democratic Party on its last legs dipshit. That was when Republicans became the "party of stupid" and snatched defeat from the jaws of absolute victory.

 

[ptbw forever]

The stupidest statement of they day is, ""pander to minorities more and bash white people like Democrats do, because we swear it will work this time"."

Literally what dumbass Democrats and Rinos are telling the Republican Party to do.

 

[ptbw forever]

Keep in mind that republicans need to "defend" more than 2 dozen Senate seats this year......

...AND, As an added "unforced error", Trump JUNIOR's speech the other night derided public school teachers, so there goes yet another constituency within the anti-Trump brigade.

^^^ Thinks public school teachers vote anything but what their unions tell them to vote

That kind of statement is why thinking people laugh at you. The union heads are liberal, but most of the teachers are centrist or right of center.

Most teachers are more left wing than Union bosses.

 

[blackhawk]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

Perhaps you should look at the demographic break down of the last governors race in Texas Greg Abbott got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote Dan Patrick the LT Governor got 46 percent and Patrick is a very strong border security guy. The Texas Republican Party had been doing exactly as you suggest.

 

[P@triot]

If you believe abortion is wrong, don't have one. Other people having abortions is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

That's as ignorant as saying "if your neighbor is murdered - it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS". Murder is everyone's business, stupid.

 

[ptbw forever]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

Perhaps you should look at the demographic break down of the last governors race in Texas Greg Abbott got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote Dan Patrick the LT Governor got 46 percent and Patrick is a very strong border security guy. The Texas Republican Party had been doing exactly as you suggest.

All they are doing is putting a bandage on the top of a deep stab wound. They are still bleeding out.

For every Hispanic born and for every black person born in Texas who will possibly listen to them, there will be 6 or so who never will, and that is not even counting the immigrants. Eventually the increasingly Republican white electorate will not be enough and we will lose everything.

 

[P@triot]

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George F. Will has long been one of the most articulate spokesperson for conservative causes. However, since Romney and now Trump, Will has become a lonely (and maligned) voice of reason for the GOP.

Here are some excerpts form his recent "opinion" piece and the demographic data regarding TX speak for themselves. (A reminder 270 electoral votes are all thatare needed to become president.)

Will Texas become another brick in the Democrats’ blue wall?

Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban, making it the 15th-most-urban state. It has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. Texas’s growth is in its cities, where Republicans are doing worst.

Dallas has gone from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. A recent poll showed Harris County (Houston), which is about 69 percent minority, with a majority identifying as Democrats. The San Antonio metropolitan area is about three-quarters minority. Travis County (Austin, seat of the state government, the flagship state university and a burgeoning tech economy attracting young people) voted 60.1 percent for

Asian Americans, Texas’s fastest-growing minority by percentage, were about 3 percent of Texans in 2000 and about 4 percent in 2010. They are projected to be more than 8 percent in 2040.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. Texas, which is not a brick in this wall, has 38 electoral votes. After the 2020 Census, it probably will have 40, perhaps 41. Were Texas to become another blue brick, the wall — even if the 2020 Census subtracted a few electoral votes from the current 18 states — would have more than the 270 votes needed to elect a president.

Since 1994, when it passed New York (which has now sunk below Florida to fourth place), Texas has been the nation’s second-most-populous state. [Texas} is the Republican Party’s only large “anchor state.” The Democratic Party has two — California and New York, with a combined 84 electoral votes. Or three, if you count Illinois (20 electoral votes), which in the past four presidential elections has voted Democratic by an average of slightly more than 16 points.

In your primate-like state of hoping around making noise over something that excites you - you fail to ask the critical question: why is this happening? Because liberalism runs everything into the ground and turns every city into a third-world country shit-hole of poverty and misery. So everyone is running from California and New York to Texas. All this is proving is how great Texas and conservative policy is, and how dreadful California and New York are with liberal policy.

In the United States, no- and low-income tax states are experiencing booms, while high-income tax states are threatened with busts. This is no mere hypothesis. Fifteen years' worth of data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that net adjusted gross incomes (net AGI) move from states that levy high income taxes to those with low or no income tax. Our analysis of more than 134 million individual taxpayer records revealed that, between 1995 and 2010, more than $2 trillion dollars moved between the states. Using this unimpeachable data, we can see – down to the county level – which areas are gaining wealth and residents, and which are losing them.

Why does this matter? There are myriad reasons. Successful people and businesses flee from states with harsh tax environments. They flock to states with benign, progrowth tax structures that allow them to save and invest. This is why a state like California, with its top income tax rate of 13.3%, saw a loss of more than $31.7 billion over 15 years. Texas, which taxes its residents at the very agreeable rate of zero, gained more than $22 billion over that same time period. (Recently, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took advantage of this reality by running ad campaigns that woo California businesses to move to Texas.)

Every Day Is Tax Day

 

[ptbw forever]

,
George F. Will has long been one of the most articulate spokesperson for conservative causes. However, since Romney and now Trump, Will has become a lonely (and maligned) voice of reason for the GOP.

Here are some excerpts form his recent "opinion" piece and the demographic data regarding TX speak for themselves. (A reminder 270 electoral votes are all thatare needed to become president.)

Will Texas become another brick in the Democrats’ blue wall?

Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban, making it the 15th-most-urban state. It has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. Texas’s growth is in its cities, where Republicans are doing worst.

Dallas has gone from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. A recent poll showed Harris County (Houston), which is about 69 percent minority, with a majority identifying as Democrats. The San Antonio metropolitan area is about three-quarters minority. Travis County (Austin, seat of the state government, the flagship state university and a burgeoning tech economy attracting young people) voted 60.1 percent for

Asian Americans, Texas’s fastest-growing minority by percentage, were about 3 percent of Texans in 2000 and about 4 percent in 2010. They are projected to be more than 8 percent in 2040.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. Texas, which is not a brick in this wall, has 38 electoral votes. After the 2020 Census, it probably will have 40, perhaps 41. Were Texas to become another blue brick, the wall — even if the 2020 Census subtracted a few electoral votes from the current 18 states — would have more than the 270 votes needed to elect a president.

Since 1994, when it passed New York (which has now sunk below Florida to fourth place), Texas has been the nation’s second-most-populous state. [Texas} is the Republican Party’s only large “anchor state.” The Democratic Party has two — California and New York, with a combined 84 electoral votes. Or three, if you count Illinois (20 electoral votes), which in the past four presidential elections has voted Democratic by an average of slightly more than 16 points.

In your primate-like state of hoping around making noise over something that excites you - you fail to ask the critical question: why is this happening? Because liberalism runs everything into the ground and turns every city into a third-world country shit-hole of poverty and misery. So everyone is running from California and New York to Texas. All this is proving is how great Texas and conservative policy is, and how dreadful California and New York are with liberal policy.

In the United States, no- and low-income tax states are experiencing booms, while high-income tax states are threatened with busts. This is no mere hypothesis. Fifteen years' worth of data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that net adjusted gross incomes (net AGI) move from states that levy high income taxes to those with low or no income tax. Our analysis of more than 134 million individual taxpayer records revealed that, between 1995 and 2010, more than $2 trillion dollars moved between the states. Using this unimpeachable data, we can see – down to the county level – which areas are gaining wealth and residents, and which are losing them.

Why does this matter? There are myriad reasons. Successful people and businesses flee from states with harsh tax environments. They flock to states with benign, progrowth tax structures that allow them to save and invest. This is why a state like California, with its top income tax rate of 13.3%, saw a loss of more than $31.7 billion over 15 years. Texas, which taxes its residents at the very agreeable rate of zero, gained more than $22 billion over that same time period. (Recently, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took advantage of this reality by running ad campaigns that woo California businesses to move to Texas.)

Every Day Is Tax Day

Regardless of whether that is true or not, they ARE destroying Texas too.

 

[P@triot]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

And how does one achieve that? By abandoning all of one's principles and embracing liberalism?

 

[TheOldSchool]

What's the point? Americans have been painfully aware of the radicalism in Texas since five Police Officers were assassinated but Texas is bigger than radicalism. The sad thing is that George Will hasn't been "right" about much in the last decade. He turned out to be an establishment hack after all.

I love how the majority of people who have been lifelong republicans in this country are now being handily dismissed as establishment hack RINO's

 

[blackhawk]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

Perhaps you should look at the demographic break down of the last governors race in Texas Greg Abbott got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote Dan Patrick the LT Governor got 46 percent and Patrick is a very strong border security guy. The Texas Republican Party had been doing exactly as you suggest.

All they are doing is putting a bandage on the top of a deep stab wound. They are still bleeding out.

For every Hispanic born and for every black person born in Texas who will possibly listen to them, there will be 6 or so who never will, and that is not even counting the immigrants. Eventually the increasingly Republican white electorate will not be enough and we will lose everything.

They have been increasing the percent of Hispanics that vote republican for years now if you choose to see that as negative then so be it nothing left to say.

 

[ptbw forever]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

And how does one achieve that? By abandoning all of one's principles and embracing liberalism?

In truth Republicans lost the war for political dominance after they rejected McCarthyism.

Now it is about winning the war for the survival of the party and western civilization itself. Republicans need to start up McCarthyism again in the whitest states and obliterate white liberalism where it started(Wisconsin and the like) and then they can worry about attempting to fight the "rising tide of color" that is destroying all their strongholds year after year.

 

[ptbw forever]

We have been hearing Texas is going to turn blue for about 30 years now.

And we thought Colorado and Virginia would never go blue....

Everything will go blue if Republicans don't stop being the party of stupid and instead fight to win the demographic war that Democrats have waged since the 60s.

Perhaps you should look at the demographic break down of the last governors race in Texas Greg Abbott got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote Dan Patrick the LT Governor got 46 percent and Patrick is a very strong border security guy. The Texas Republican Party had been doing exactly as you suggest.

All they are doing is putting a bandage on the top of a deep stab wound. They are still bleeding out.

For every Hispanic born and for every black person born in Texas who will possibly listen to them, there will be 6 or so who never will, and that is not even counting the immigrants. Eventually the increasingly Republican white electorate will not be enough and we will lose everything.

They have been increasing the percent of Hispanics that vote republican for years now if you choose to see that as negative then so be it nothing left to say.

They have also been increasing the percentage of pretty much every other demographic as well and it is still not nearly enough.

As long as Democrats control the culture and the schools and the media they have nothing to fear from these temporary trends. The only permanent increase to Republican ranks is from whites living in a increasingly anti-white America, and we are dying far more than we are born, not just in America, but the world over.