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Republican candidates for U.S. Senate (from left) Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz participate in a debate on April 13 in Dallas.
by Wade Goodwyn
Texas Senate Hopefuls Woo Republicans Of All Stripes
May 29, 2012
It's high noon in Texas at the Stephenville Community Center out on Highway 67, and the Cross Timbers Republican Women's Club Candidates Forum is about to begin.
Time has run out on this Republican Senate primary. This is a last chance for the candidates to make an impression before Tuesday's vote. They're vying to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is retiring after serving for nearly 20 years.
First up: former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. "Why, it's great to be with you, and I appreciate the opportunity," he tells the crowd. "We are at the cliff, and the clock is running. We have a president who has turned his back on the Constitution."
If the latest polls are accurate, Leppert is currently running a distant third behind Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant.
Dewhurst, the front-runner, is the GOP establishment candidate, backed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Cruz is courting the Tea Party vote, so Leppert has positioned himself as the businessman who knows how to balance a budget.
"As mayor of Dallas, we did some pretty unusual things," he tells the group. "We reduced the civilian workforce by 20 percent."
But this is West Texas, and while they applaud the former Dallas mayor's speech politely, they're looking for redder meat than budget talk. Cruz serves it up within seconds of stepping to the microphone.
"Barack Obama is the most radical president this country has ever seen," Cruz says. "And the unhappy truth is, as bad as Obama's been, he didn't invent spending. It was a bipartisan problem long before he got elected."
Around the room, heads bob in agreement. The proposition that President Obama is a radical socialist is accepted fact with this group. But when Cruz says that Republicans are equally to blame for the debt problem, heads bob just as emphatically — the room believes that's true, too. In two deft sentences, the former solicitor general has positioned himself outside both parties as the only real conservative with a chance to win.
"From Ed Meese to Phyllis Schlafly to Dr. James Dobson to the five strongest conservatives in the U.S. Senate — Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Pat Toomey and Tom Coburn — every one of them is united behind this campaign. If conservatives continue to unite — and I ask for your help — we're going to win this race," Cruz says. "And when we win this race, Texas will lead the fight."
Three hours south geographically and a million miles away culturally, in Austin, Texas, the Scholz beer garden is packed for Dewhurst.
It's a completely different Republican crowd: Mercedes-Benzes parked outside, not F-150s. No iced tea or folding chairs; here, there's a tight band, expansive bar and well-coifed, good-looking Texas women laughing as they drink.
There's power gathered in this room, and the front-running lieutenant governor is pleased.
"Wow, what a great crowd. It's amazing what beer will do. It really is," he says, to cheers.
There's no need for Dewhurst to dish red meat here — this crowd isn't interested in getting the U.S. out of the United Nations; they're building relationships and having a beer. Nevertheless, the candidate runs through his reasons for seeking the Senate like a tired runner approaching the finish line.
"I'm running for the United States Senate because on Day 1, I want to push for the repeal of Obamacare. I'm running for the United State Senate because I want to keep America strong, and I'm tired of the federal government not doing their job. We need to secure our borders," he says.
While Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum have endorsed Cruz, Perry and a whole host of other Texas Republicans are behind Dewhurst. If the lieutenant governor can't get 50 percent of the vote Tuesday, there will be a two-man runoff in late July.
Oh, yes, the Democrats are having their Senate primary election, too. The experts say someday the Texas Democratic Party will rise again to challenge Republicans for control of the state. But that future is not yet here.
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Today is
The Republican Party Inevitably
Will Be Reduced to a Party of The Past
The Republican Party Foundation of Racism, Bigotry and Anti-Immigration is part of the reason why the republican party is a party struggling to hold on to a "once past like disposition".
The Infighting is the example of how the blatant racist of the republican party, which calls itself the "true conservatives", are challenging the soft racist of the republican party, who would consider negotiating with President Obama, the first Black President.
The Tea Party represent the upper class republicans who fragmented from the true conservatives with the full intentions of demanding that all other republicans aren't true republicans, in that, the tea party members are fully prepared to take this country to it's knees before acknowledging that white upper class American Men are the true leaders and no other can possibly be considered.
Thus, within the republican party itself are the old bigoted republicans, the extreme racists, and the upper class racist, all 3 different fragments of the republican party, struggling to make their presence known as the true republicans within the totality of the republican party.
While the Republican Party fight among themselves in an effort to prove who are the true republican party, they have destroyed any hope of providing an open door to future possible republican youth who may consider joining the party of the old old south.
Republican's standing behind the "birther issue, the immigration illegal laws being created by racists states, the voter ID laws, and social issues regarding Obama Care and the birth control issue for woman" are the type of laws that automatically alienate 70% of all the babies that are being born today and over the past 10 years.
Thus, while the Republican Party implodes, they also are cutting off their own future by ensuring that their racist foundation Dissociate any demographic that is non-100%-white-male.
Effective this day, the majority of American Born infants are non-white or non-hispanic, which means that the majority of infants born in the U.S. are either "mixed race" or "Black"..., and by adding in the Hispanics in these numbers, America is becoming the demographic that the Republican Party "don't" want, and these new demographics of the future voters will base their opinion on their parent's opinion of the current racist republicans who are to ignorant to change.
In 50 years, less than 10% of the American People will call themselves Republicans.
In My Opinion
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5/29/2012
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