Is Texas about to put a Democrat in the Senate? | Colin Allred is gaining on Ted Cruz
Is Texas about to put a Democrat in the Senate? | Colin Allred is gaining on Ted Cruz
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20923017
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so it has been 6 years since Beto, he got close, hopefully his new guy makes it
O'Rourke is such a fucking moron. What kind of pants-on-head, helmet-wearing, short-bus riding, genetic defect of a village idiot tells people in Texas, "Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47"? And it's going to be even worse now, because more and more Democratic-leaning voters own firearms than did in 2019. It's so goddamn infuriating, because by every possible metric, Cruz is a godawful human and has zero principles.
If Dems dropped gun and magazine restrictions/bans entirely, and never brought it up again, they could peel off significant numbers of single-issue Republicans, just like Republicans could peel off a lot of single-issue Democrats is they entirely dropped abortion/birth control restrictions/bans. (And, in both cases, you're better off addressing root causes.)
It has to be given in context.
He said that after his home town that he was a mayor of, got shot up by a Maga nut job with an AR15.
There is no context that makes this a smart thing to say in Texas when you're running to be a US Senator. It doesn't matter how rabidly you oppose 2A rights, you keep your mouth shut and don't say a goddamn thing.
in another 6 years it'll be this guy and other one after that. i stopped believing in meaningful democratic prognostications in texas 35 years ago.