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September 24, 2004Good News, Weird NewsBy Byron LaMastersVia Panhandle Truth Squad:
As much as I'd like to believe David Van Os - well, Texas is just not a Blue state. At least not in 2004. Kerry will not win Texas. It's one thing to try and fire up the base, but it's quite another to live in fantasyland (to steal a line from Kerry's recent stump speech). The only way we turn Texas blue is by working our butts off, registering and turning out every voter in every cycle that we can. It means contesting more races with quality candidates and funding them. It means having a cordinated message where Texans of all races, backgrounds and regions can be proud to call themselves a Democrat. And on that note, here's the good news. The Texas Democratic Party is alive in Amarillo:
Everything sounds great until the last sentence there. The Bush mystic is the reason Texas Democrats are in such bad shape. Had George W. Bush never arrived on the scene of Texas politics, Democrats wouldn't have been shut out of the statewides in his 1998 landslide reelection, which means Democrats wouldn't have gotten screwed in the 2001 legislative redistricting, which means the most recent redistricting never would have happened, but I digress. Posted by Byron LaMasters at September 24, 2004 12:55 PM | TrackBack
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The price you pay for wrong thinking. Believe it or not the same thing is happening all over our country. Your party is not building itself, you're aborting future Democrats every day. We Republicans are out producing you, 2.11 for every 1.46 of you'al. Tell me. Sen. Kerry tells us that Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place. We need to pull our children out. How can we get other countries to send there children in when Kerry is stating its not worth doing? You expect the smart French to be dumb enough to send their children to the wrong war? The Germans? The Russians? Oh i can see your thoughts now; we were dumb enough to do this so they might be just as dumb. Looking in that rear view mirror, having trouble making you out way back there. Posted by: peter at September 24, 2004 02:20 PMWell, gee, I don't consider it "beating the Republicans," if you know, we actually have to agree with the Republicans on everything in order to win. Posted by: Jim D at September 25, 2004 06:41 PMTongue-in-cheek, dude. Dubya also wasn't the best thing that happened to my nephew who had to spend an unfortunate year of his life in Iraq. But, looking at it from a Panhandlian perspective, the Demo party is more alive up here than since Bush was an inept baseball team owner. We've banded together to defeat a common enemy. And apparently we're more organized than we've been since before Will Rogers was a Democrat. Posted by: SPACEDARK at September 27, 2004 06:55 PM
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