Texas GOP Official, Calls For 'Amicable Divorce' From 'Maggots' Who Voted For Obama

[BostonPirate]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/peter-morrison-texas-divorce_n_2100165.html

"Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government?" he wrote. "Let each go her own way."

Morrison went on to express anger at the "maggots" who backed Obama, specifically calling out non-white voters, whom he accused of voting for the president on an "ethnic basis."

Bud Kennedy of the Star-******** has more details.

Republican officials in Texas have been glum about the concept of a second Obama term in the past. A judge from Lubbock predicted over the summer that the president's reelection could even lead to a civil war.

I have an Idea. We let them leave. Let them become part of Mexico. Let them try to go it on their own and have to pay for national militia. Let them pay for their own roads, their own hospitals, and make their own Energy grid.

We have to pay for their oil at the same rate we have to pay for the Saudi oil. IF they want to nationalize their oil production and become socialist to pay the bill, let them at it.

I welcome their loss. Hell Puerto Rico just voted to make itself a state, I say we cut dead weight and go with the people that actually WANT to be Americans.

Hell lets ship as many of the other asshats that think the way they do over to them before they get stripped of states rights and the protections as individuals of the constitution.

Third world in two decades. Business would desert them to the benefit of California, and god knows, they need the revenue.

 

[rareboy]

All I know is, Obama should never visit Texas.

It is interesting that there are so many bitter losers out there who immediately think that the answer to every issue that comes up is to secede from the Union instead of working within a Federation.

 

[chrisrobin]

All I know is, Obama should never visit Texas.

A word to the wise:​

 

[White Eagle]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Don't let them take us out.
We've gotta get rid of these GOPpers.

Actually we have a Texas Navy. You can find them patroling on the San Antonio River during the Fiesta held the week of Apr 21st. San Jacinto day is our winning our freedom from Mexico. Don't send us back!

 

[BostonPirate]

I think Texas, Georgia and Arizona should all be targeted by democrats, and registration drives must continue to reduce GOP influence. Despite being gerrymandered in a way that's favorable to the republican party, if Democrats in Texas can get Latinos out in bigger numbers you could see a shift like we saw here in California back in the 90s. So keep them in. California was once the home of Nixon and Reagan... and a leaning republican state.

Virginia virginia!

The Obama people on the ground in the last two years since the census was released targeted and registered to vote three percent more of the Latino vote.

That is the margin that he won Virginia by. If the red states are to be made purple, or blue, It's going to have to happen by getting that minority enfranchised at the polls in those states. Once that happens, the GOP will stop having to play race games at the border and drop all the immigrant crap. Essentially, to get some of that vote passed, they need to get some sort of Dream Act passed, so that the catholic Latinos feel comfortable voting with them again.

SB 1070 needs to be apologized for, and comprehensive immigration reform has to occur fast, or the GOP will start this two year congress without the support of the largest Minority in the nation.

 

[palbert]

Wasn't a rather horrendous war fought over the underlying principle? See, Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Random House, © Shelby Foote, 1958, 1986.

 

[BostonPirate]

Wasn't a rather horrendous war fought over the underlying principle? See, Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Random House, © Shelby Foote, 1958, 1986.

Well look. I think in order for them to leave the Union legally they would have to withdraw from the union, not secede. That means it would have to do it federally through legislation with supermajority votes from Congress and ratification of the states... and so it technically won't happen.

And that's my point.

I'm tired of hearing the GOP machine down there whine with their mouths about the Size of the Gov't as they suck cash from the teat of the treasury.

If Texans think they can pay their own way in the world then they need to do it.

At this point they are biting the hand that feeds them.

 

[JayHawk]

I saw this story yesterday but couldn't be arsed top share it here... Pulse is a great thingy.....

I voted let 'em leave. Seriously, without Texas you need not worry about waiting 20 more years for the republican party to change. 38 Electoral votes down the tubes that would be divided up by New York and California based on population alone.... then we can allow Puerto Rico in... just imagine a bluer country with cheap rum at every party.... what more encouragement do you need?

 

[gatormonster]

Good bye and take Arizona and Mrs Palin with you!

 

[MystikWizard]

And this is the type of temper tantrum we see when those in control begin to lose power. We've also seen it with several companies already announcing layoffs because Obama won. We will see more of this to come, and it's all the more proof that Capitalism does not work-- those with the power demonstrating clear abuse of it.

Greed. Corporate greed is the true downfall of this country. And it is a crying shame when those who are well off refuse to pay a little more just to help those who are struggling to get by. That does not sit well with me and frankly, turns my stomach.

As far as how I voted ... I voted No and to invade if need be. Keep in mind, it is their leadership talking ... there are a huge amount of every day citizens that lives in the state and disagrees with this type of talk.

Their best punishment is to be forced to come along for the ride.

 

[White Eagle]

I think Texas, Georgia and Arizona should all be targeted by democrats, and registration drives must continue to reduce GOP influence. Despite being gerrymandered in a way that's favorable to the republican party, if Democrats in Texas can get Latinos out in bigger numbers you could see a shift like we saw here in California back in the 90s. So keep them in. California was once the home of Nixon and Reagan... and a leaning republican state.

I can't figure out why the Latinos aren't voting Dem here. We have to have a majority by now. Here in Corpus all the canned food in the grocery stores are bi lingual (is that the proper word ?) and we have to have a majority population in Latinos.

 

[White Eagle]

Absolutely let them go.

Conservatism will never have another day in federal government.

Just let the GOP go!! Keep Texas!

 

[frankfrank]

I have an Idea. We let them leave. Let them become part of Mexico.

I welcome their loss. Hell Puerto Rico just voted to make itself a state.

The most fabulously, marvelously wonderful part about all of this, is that nobody would be stuck with that darned task of redesigning the United States flag.

Oh, and that the Republican winner-take-all state would disappear, as would an overbalance of Republican Congressional districts, and two Republican Senators (I think). But let's get the JUB'bers out first, perhaps to Albuquerque.

 

[TX-Beau]

I can't figure out why the Latinos aren't voting Dem here. We have to have a majority by now. Here in Corpus all the canned food in the grocery stores are bi lingual (is that the proper word ?) and we have to have a majority population in Latinos.

Let's start with this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lou-dubose/texas-redistricting-gerrymandering_b_1223195.html

Then there is apathy, a joke of a Dem party - did you notice on the ballot that if you went straight ticket Dem you didn't vote in a bunch of races because there was no Dem? If Texas doesn't go blue, the Dems are equally to blame.

And people please. Texas isn't going anywhere.

Suck it up.

 

[White Eagle]

What's wrong with Texas being a Republic?

Your state has unique politics.

I also believe some day that whites will, since a few centuries, be in the minority again in Texas.

There was a time when Texas produced 1/4 of the oil for the US. We could be an OPEC nation.
I haven't checked that 1/4 figure in quite awhile.

 

[White Eagle]

Anyway, the SCOTUS has already ruled we could not secede.

 

[ChickenGuy]

No Republican would EVER allow Texas to secede. They'd lose 38 automatic votes in the electoral college.

Besides, if you let Texas go, then Oklahoma would want to follow them.

And Louisiana. And Mississippi. And Alabama. And Georgia. And Kansas. And Nebraska. And Wyoming....

 

[JayHawk]

And people please. Texas isn't going anywhere.

Suck it up.

Anyway, the SCOTUS has already ruled we could not secede.

Can't you two let us have hope... jeesh the ignate remarks came from Texas....

 

[Kulindahr]

If they ask, let them go -- but they won't ask.

What would be nice, though, is if someone could pull a Jedi mind trick and get the legislature and governor to approve a law requiring the electoral votes to be split proportionately.

 

[CoolBlue71]

If the "Texas GOP Official" want a divorce, he should seek not from anyone but the state of Texas. So let the asshole move to Oklahoma.


In the meantime, I notice that the counties of Dallas (Dallas) and Harris (Houston) are trending Democratic. In 2008, President Barack Obama won them first time for a Democrat since native son Lyndon Johnson, who then-naturally carried his home state of Texas, in the election of 1964.


Here are some numbers:

TEXAS
2000: George W. Bush R+21.32
2004: George W. Bush R+22.87
2008: John McCain R+11.76
2012: Mitt Romney R+15.83 (unofficial)


DALLAS COUNTY
2000: R+7.67
2004: R+1.40
2008: D+15.26
2012: D+15.42 (unofficial)

HARRIS COUNTY
2000: R+11.37
2004: R+10.19
2008: D+1.63
2012: D+0.05 (unofficial)


DALLAS COUNTY-VS.-TEXAS
2000: D+13.65
2004: D+21.47
2008: D+27.02
2012: D+31.25 (unofficial)

HARRIS COUNTY-VS.-TEXAS
2000: D+9.95
2004: D+12.68
2008: D+13.39
2012: D+15.88 (unofficial)


Some in political circles believe the population changes are poised to put Texas in play by the arrival of 2020. These two counties are a sample of how such movement may be underway.

A bellwether county for the state of Texas is Tarrant (Fort Worth), which tends to carry in margins close to the state. (Unofficially, Mitt Romney has carried it by R+15.71, a mere spread of 0.12% from his win of Texas.) That's one county immediately west of Dallas County. And it's the Arlington area that is home to the 2010 and 2011 American League pennant-winning Texas Rangers.

If this trendline continues, then a number of positives can happen for Democrats which could ultimately include both Tarrant County and Texas. So it's no wonder this "GOP official" and anyone like him from Texas is in such a whiny bitch mood.