I Don't Want to be Right About Texas

Topic: Perspective

Part of the human experience is getting it wrong.  Sometimes we get it wrong when we expect a smooth ride across town and forget about a concert or ballgame concluding as we are en route.  Other times we get it wrong out of neglect, poor judgment, or by embracing our sinful human nature.  Each of these wrongs require a different remedy.  If you’re an avid reader of this journal, you will recall that this author incorrectly predictedRon DeSantis would not run for President this cycle, although the prediction was made before Florida’s legislature repealed the “resign to run law” that would have forced DeSantis out of the Governor’s mansion to face an opponent he trails bigly, and also before we knew the courts were gearing up to heave a whole new batch of witch hunts at President Trump.  As I wrote in February:

DeSantis is behind Trump in magnitude, but clearly ahead of any announced or potentially announcing candidates, like Haley, Mike Pence, Glenn Youngkin, or even Greg Abbott.  DeSantis would therefore need to spend all his campaign energy attacking Donald Trump, a man he owes his entire governorship to and has modeled his leadership plan after.  In attacking Trump, DeSantis would refute himself.

Without Trump’s endorsement in the 2018 Republican primary, DeSantis would have lost to Adam Putnam and never had the opportunity to win re-election in 2022 by the largest margin ever for a Republican in the Sunshine State.  Trump was also instrumental in calling out the steal in Broward County that made the 2018 race between DeSantis and crackhead Andrew Gillum excruciatingly close.

On the flip side of the coin, getting it right brings about different reactions.  It was really cool to get it right in 2016, back when no one knew who the hell I was, and call every state accurately as the nation lit up “red” for a Trumpian victory.  In other instances, I don’t want to get it right.  I really want to be wrong about Texas, which I have asserted is on pace to produce Democrat electoral votes by 2032 (as a side note, I believe a “Blue Texas” would prove moot, as the rest of the electoral college would be engineered against a populist, America First agenda first; however, crippling Texas and her plentiful natural resources, and overrunning her border for years on end, would be damning for America and the citizens residing within the Lone Star State).

Whereas it took just 17 Romney-won counties to eliminate the margins of Bexar, Harris, Dallas, and Travis Counties for Barack Obama, it took 96 to cut them out of the picture in 2020, with very few substantially populated Republican counties to do the trick in 2024 and 2028.  What is most troubling is that Trump’s gains in 2020 were Republican records statewide, and in nearly every major county, but he won the state by the lowest margin for a Republican since 1996.  Joe Biden had nearly 600,000 more ballots than Trump won the state four years earlier, which of course are the byproduct of massive election fraud that the Texas Republican establishment will not touch with a ten-foot pole, lest their cheating in primaries be exposed.

Yes, election statistics fans, Texas is likely to be won by Trump in 2024 by a smaller number of votes and lower percentage margin of victory than Florida, which was 17 points left of Texas in 2012 and won by Obama.

No need to freak out, guys.  At least the Texas GOP owns the Governor’s Mansion and the Legislature.  We can respond to the issues with our elections, especially the rampant corruption in Harris County that everyone is forced to talk about, by passing some good reforms, like Steve Toth’s bill that will address seven of that very tall, good-looking Captain’s points for election reform.

Enter Dade Phelan.  A Bush-wing Republican as useless as the Mongolian Navy or the Ugandan bobsledding team, his second session as Texas House Speaker is nothing short of disastrous.  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, one of precious few Republican elected officials who have given one single damn about the fraudulent election of 2020, has called for Phelan to resign after video has surfaced showing the Speaker appearing to be presiding over the Texas House in a drunken or drugged state. 

Canvassers, researchers, investigators, and local bear-pokers have revealed problem after problem within the state’s system of elections and related to massive government corruption.  Globally known daredevils like Michael Yon have exposed just how bad things are at the Texas border, which stretches over a thousand miles along the Rio Grande.  With all these issues present in a state that prides itself on rugged individualism, what should the Speaker do?