Maybe not in 2010. Maybe not in 2012. But the last few days and tonight especially have proven one thing; The GOP is running scared to shore up Texas before the 50 State Strategy comes to play here.
1. More and More Hispanics Voting Dem While some disagree about whether or not Texas is already a Minority Majority state or not, it is agreed by all that within a generation the population of Texas will be mostly Hispanic. And despite their best efforts to drive a wedge between African Americans and Hispanic Americans, more and more minorities in Texas are uniting in common cause.
2. Bush Republicans looking to become big fish in small pond.There's a LOT of Bush Republicans in relatively long-term national posts who are considering running for state offices. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (
http://www.star-telegram.com/legislature/story/1019125.html ) Kay Bailey Hutchison is considering a run for Governor against Rick Perry in 2010. So are several state Reps in the Tarrant County area.
There's two reasons why I can see them being anxious to get out of Washington politics. First, they are well aware how hostile Washington is going to be toward Bush Republicans in the near future. Second, with Rick Perry being so closely tied to Bush and having won the last election mainly because of a three-way split between party-line Democrats, fiscal conservatives and "the just plain pissed-off" Kinky Friedman supporters, they think there's a chance at knocking him out at the primary. When sharks smell blood in the water, they will turn on their own.
3. John Cornyn won because of National Neglect from the DemocratsHe sad as much himself last night, according to The Dallas Morning News (
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornyn_05pol.ART.State.Edition2.4a40f4c.html?npc )
"Our goal was to make sure that it never got so close" as to tempt national Democrats to "dump $5 million or $10 million in our state and succeed.Howard Dean's 50-state strategy has done a world of good for us Nationally in 2008. But we need to work harder to make people believe that a Texas Democrat isn't an oxymoron so we can get more support from around the country.
4. Vote Flipping In The Big CitiesThis story on WIRED (
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/straight-party.html ) has been mostly ignored in the wake of all of the other broken electronic voting machines in swing states. And with good reason - it sounds like a paranoid liberal fantasy; Republicans rigging the voting machines in Texas. Why would they need to?
Yes. Why would they need to... unless it was to mask what we - the fighting liberals of Texas already know; that Texas isn't nearly the GOP stronghold that the nation believes it is.
Already the headlines are screaming about how - with all the other losses this election year - at least Texas is still strongly in the red.
For the moment, that may be true. But as another headline this morning said, Change has come to America. And eventually, it will come to Texas.
We have taken a large step forward in taking back our country. Let us now take the first steps in taking back our state.
For Ann. For Molly. For ever.
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