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3/5/14, "The real story in Texas primary is the ascendancy of GOP right wing," Washington Post, Dan Balz
"Establishment and tea party Republicans can comb through the results of Tuesday’s primaries in Texas
and find something to feel good about. But the real story out of the
state this winter is the degree to which the most conservative wing of
the party is ascendant. This is not the same party that brought George
W. Bush to the governor’s office 20 years ago....
The lieutenant
governor’s office is one of the most powerful in the state; some would
say more powerful than the weak governor’s office created by the Texas
Constitution. If Patrick becomes the nominee and wins in November, he
will be the most conservative person to hold that office in modern
times....
Texas
is preparing for a wholesale swap of its statewide elected officials....Republicans are favored in all of them;
Democrats have been shut out since the 1990s. The primary campaigns
provided plenty of evidence of where the locus of power now rests in the
Texas GOP, and it is with Cruz and the tea party wing....
Republicans
nationally continue to debate the right strategy to win a presidential
election....
There’s no such debate in Texas, where GOP candidates play primarily
to their base....
The construct that this was a true test of the
GOP establishment vs. the tea party misses the point.
As a new
generation of leaders rises in the Lone Star State, there are few
dissenters from the views of the party’s most conservative wing." via Mark Levin
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Comment: Putting aside for a moment Balz use of labels such as "right wing," who wouldn't be happy to extricate the country or even Texas from the strangle hold of a vicious mob named the Bushes?
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