Well, sometimes, people disappoint you. Or, in this case, disappoint me. I wasn’t certain that the Downtown Houston Pachyderm Club was meeting today because there was no information on the website or Facebook, but I took a chance and drove downtown anyway. Fortunately, they were meeting. Hey, I’m a member in good standing (I guess, even though I never get emails from them, even after paying the dues), so, you know, why not make the 45 minute drive?
Well, to be honest, maybe I shouldn’t have made that drive. You know, I’ve supported that club for some time. I’ve also supported the Kubosh brothers and still will – they’ve done a bang up job with this club and other issues in Houston. Until today, but I guess everyone deserves a mulligan.
At any rate, I made the drive, paid for parking, paid for the very good meal, and what do I get?
People attacking a young military veteran simply because he supports Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to be the next US Senator from Texas. Not just any veteran, but Marine Capt. Dan Moran (Ret.). Capt. Moran was severely injured in Iraq and has had to suffer insults from the Ted Cruz campaign for months. I had to shake my head today as once again, he was attacked simply because he supports Lt. Gov. Dewhurst.
I guess that the good news is that no one called him deformed, as other high profile Cruz supporters have done. Today, they wanted to know why Lt. Gov. Dewhurst didn’t overturn the “Rose Bush” bill and why he didn’t singlehandedly secure the border.
I’m not sure I can address these issues without using expletives. Randy and Michael are smart guys and I don’t have a clue as to why they don’t understand that the “Rose Bush” bill is a CONSERVATIVE tradition!!!!! Drives me freaking nuts when people don’t understand that! What the heck do we need to do to drive that point home?
And then former candidate for Pct 4 Constable Robert Lozano couldn’t accept the FACT that Texas has spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to stop a FEDERAL issue! Drives me freaking nuts! Capt. Moran answered Mr. Lozanos’s question but that wasn’t good enough. Mr. Lozano had to berate him because ” the Lt. Gov. didn’t do enough”, whatever that means.
STOP ALREADY! What the heck is wrong with Republican voters? Why is heckling a decorated soldier acceptable?
I don’t get it. Very disheartening. I guess that because Lt. Gov. Dewhurst has a real record and Ted Cruz doesn’t, people think it is okay to hate on him.
Bizarro.
Maybe this is what the questioner is talking about: http://senatedistrict10.com/Resolutions/20081206ResolutionRegardingRosebushBlockerRule.pdf I don’t know. I’ve only heard it called the Blocker Bill and had to look up Rosebush!
Karen, the tradition of introducing a bill and then tabling it is a conservative measure. It ensures that the Senate will have to consider all views before adopting a bill. Remember, this tradition came about because Democrats controlled the Texas Senate. Lord help us if blowhards on our side do away with it and then Democrats regain control of the Texas Senate.
Yeah, no argument from me. Wouldn’t be the first time the party platform blew up common sense principles.
Somehow you have fallen into the trap of believing that veteran status — even wounded veteran status — confers the right to have your views unquestioningly accepted by others. As my dad, a retired Navy officer with combat experience, pointed out to me many years ago, those who make such an argument are dangerous — after all, Hitler was a decorated combat veteran wounded in action.
Is that a criticism of Dan Moran? No, it isn’t. But the notion that Moran, a Dewhurst campaign surrogate, should be treated with kid gloves because he is a disabled veteran is utterly silly.
August 1 can’t get here fast enough! If it hadn’t been for the redistricting lawsuit, all of this would have been behind us months ago. When campaigns drag on too long, everybody gets testy.
Can Cruz and Dewhurst supporters all agree to go get a chicken sandwich on Wednesday?
Rhymes, I haven’t fallen for anything. I didn’t say you can’t be critical of people, I said that there is such a thing as common courtesy and politeness. And yeah, I think you should be a bit more respectful of someone that was burned over 50{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of his body in the line of duty. Guilty as charged.
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst has a real record, all right. On Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s watch, Texas taxpayers continue to suffer the high cost of illegal aliens to the state of Texas (in the last session, he did nothing to try to curb illegal aliens’ access to social services, while the budget was being cut for citizens and legal residents). On Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s watch, the bill which would have repealed in-state tuition for children of illegal aliens was held up in committee because Dewhurst continues to appoint liberal Republicans and Democrats in key committee chair positions to keep conservative legislation off the floor for debate. Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, over the many years he has served in office, has never ever championed ending sanctuary cities, but rather gives it lip service when he’s running for office. On Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s watch, state spending growth has risen (he and other members of the Senate ignore the fact that state spending — all funds — rose 310{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} between 1990 and 2012, while population growth plus inflation totaled only 132{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986}). Also, don’t forget that in 2005, Dewhurst proposed the creation of a new state wage tax; even the Wall Street Journal noted that this was simply a “fancy disguise for an income tax” that would have killed 40,000 jobs in Texas. On Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s watch, the state balanced its budget in part with accounting gimmicks and deferrals. And, when given a chance to join State Representative David Simpson and Senator Patrick in taking a real stand against the overreaching federal government in support of the anti-groping TSA bill, David Dewhurst squandered an opportunity by caving to the federal government and thus killing the bill.
Ted Cruz has a real record, as well. He has achieved an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, including successfully defending: U.S. sovereignty against the World Court in Medellin v. Texas, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in District of Columbia v. Heller, the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument, and the constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. He has authored over 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued 40 oral arguments, including 9 before the U.S. Supreme Court. As the Austin-American Statesman (not known for it’s right-of-center views) put it when they endorsed him in this race, “For Republican primary voters looking for a no-frills, no-apologies conservative, Cruz is the genuine article.”