Texas, the Red State Bastion
This midterm election, Texas was a battleground.
Newcomer Robert O'rourke, who campaigned as "Beto" to pander to the Hispanic population, gave the incumbent Ted Cruz an honest run for his money... in a state that has not elected democrat leadership since i was a fifth grader. thats 30 years ago.
Robert O'rourke is hardly the ideal political candidate for those unfamiliar with him. but so few of our candidates are these days. In 1996 he was arrested for breaking and entering into the physical plant of the University of Texas El Paso. The university suddenly and abruptly dropped the charges against him and his friends, some allege this abrupt change in stance occurred after his wealthy father made a substantial donation to the university. Unable to stay out of trouble, O'Rourke was arrested again two years later for crashing a car on Interstate 10 while driving under the influence of alcohol, but he negotiated out of the charges in exchange for taking a DWI course.
Under republican leadership there has been much to talk about in the state. Texas leads the nation in jobs growth, in fact there have been 28 continuous months in a row to date of positive jobs growth in the state. In a whole slew of new rankings, Texas leads the nation. Numerous independent sources site Texas as the number one state for doing business, number one for export revenues, number one for livestock revenues... the state has no personal income tax, and a median household income on par with the national middle class.
Though there was no "blue wave victory" in the state of Texas like many of my liberal colleagues aggressively touted about on facebook and other social media platforms... Ted Cruz, the incumbent republican, won re-election by a margin of only a quarter million votes... out of a total of over 8,000,000 voters who showed up at the polls.
While republicans in the state today wake up to victory, it is important for them to remember that they just won the super bowl, their uniforms stained with blood and mud and dirt... against a brand new rookie franchise... in overtime... by a single field goal.
Texas politics is something of a paradox.
Under republican leadership we have a booming economy, fastest jobs growth in the nation, minuscule unemployment, we are attracting more businesses and industries... yet as all of this attracts more people to our great state our urban areas begin to swell and for some reason, they show up at the polls and vote against the very things that attracted them here.
it is outside the realm of my intelligence to understand why they vote for socialism, welfare state, pro crime, pro corruption nonsense but here we had 48% of our fellow Texans rush for just that side of the ballot!
i consider myself to be a pretty smart guy... but i cannot wrap my head around anyone’s reasoning for voting for illegals and against veterans.... for welfare and against jobs... for poverty ridden socialist agendas and against a job exploding free market.
what kind of person wants those things for their state?
Personally, my travels have taken me to many of these blue states. they are unhappy, filthy, crime infested, corrupt hell holes in which the homeless are nearly as abundant as the trees. boarded up buildings that literally span miles. thousands of acres of steel mills and factory’s that have churned not a puff of smoke in 40-60 years.
in fact, the only boarded up building in my home town... has a "BETO FOR SENATE" political sign prominently displayed out front. go figure.
where Texans, and Texas republicans should be concerned... is that 48% of the voting population of the state showed up and voted for a Texas of the unemployed, boarded up variety.
48%
Republicans are going to have to work harder and harder every election year to maintain the red state bastion that is the Lone Start State.
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