Two Different Parties, Two Very Different Moods
Texas Democrats are trying to attract voters, financiers and candidates. They’re in the desert, stuck in endless ruminations about what might bring them back. Superstar candidates? Rich ideologues? Fractious Republicans? Demographic changes?
Texas Republicans are trying to hold their coalitions together, to keep their voters and their financiers and their candidates inside their big tent. They’re in a political land of plenty, fighting one another over the spoils and bickering over who is true to which conservative orthodoxies. Tea Party? Movement conservative? Traditional Republicans?
The Democrats are reorganizing. They just elected a new chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa, the first ...

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John McIntyre
Until the demoncrats return the prolife and heterosexual marriage planks removed in 1964,they are the sodomite,babybrain sucking party..Reorganizing the musicians on the titanic is fruitless.The former democrats now with an r in front of their name are on the way to the bottom of the toilet.Dewhurst,oops perry,and squeeky straus are outted.Without dallasvoice,senfroni thompson,straus 11 or 15,lgbtt's straus would not be speaker.Munisteria wasted hours and refused to allow Bryan Hughes to address the delegation.Electing armstrong over martinez just smells rotten.Cruz with Palin is impossible to defeat.Hopson cut and ran from Lon Morris College,so Clardy should win.Perry now has the deathkiss for Wayne Christian and Leo Berman of Tyler.IN two years he can paint rocks in throckmorton.