Texas Governor's Race 2022

[tigol 2398]

Rs will blame it on green energy and Democrats and it will work, despite this state being run by Republicans for at least 20 years. 

Can confirm. My insane uncle is still blaming it on windmills despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. It’s amazing.

[atomheartbevo 89730]

Would be awesome if he depresses turnout for Abbott over pissed-off MAGA types whose lawn mowing jobs are threatened by foreign invaders.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

16 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

If he pulls it off I may catch a flight out there for the celebration.

Anyone got a spare bedroom lol?

You can crash with me and my gf. You can sleep in the middle.

12 hours ago, Bullneck said:

omg, he's barely taller than that lectern. he truly is gollum

Edited November 17, 2021 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Hmbre97 6312]

1 hour ago, 4Pete said:

The only “tragedy” that would change this race would be a winter FAFO COVID-cull of right wingers.  

[Biff Tannen 45691]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It's whatever the person telling you about it wants it to be.

It's like Gozer.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

It's like Gozer.

The Gozerian?

[South Austin 52519]

42 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

It's like Gozer.

Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

[Planet Houston 4930]

17 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

When our power grid fails again this winter, that might have some effect on the outcome. Right?

Rather own the libs in the dark than vote for a D any day!!!!

[Brisketexan 105155]

19 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

Rather own the libs in the dark than vote for a D any day!!!!

I mean, you're not even being hyperbolic -- Rick Perry literally said as much:

 

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“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” 

 

[DDD Dad 14339]

18 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

This. When y’all grasp that the literal Jesus Christ could return to earth and run for Texas office as a Dem….he would lose by 6-8 points, after being lambasted as a commie socialist heretic.

Well, he kinda was.

[South Austin 52519]

Jesus loved whores.  He was my kind of Messiah.

[Brisketexan 105155]

11 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Well, he kinda was.

[Wulaw Horn 19099]

If Dems were smart they would have recruited Wooderson hard for the governorship. I think he might be able to actually win if they cleared the field for him and/or ran him against someone very far left in the primaries so that he could push back against that and present as a moderate. Matty M is basically a Republican out in Hollywood and a Democrat in Texas- but culturally he has himself in the mainstream of Texas and I would think he'd run way ahead of anyone else that the Dems could reasonably nominate in the sticks and maybe in the burbs.    

I can't see Beto keeping this race within 8 or 10 in 2022. That will be a toxic environment for Dems, Abbott has a huge war chest and he's more or less thought of as a bland and boring GOP.  This shouldn't be close I wouldn't think.  

[DDD Dad 14339]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I can't see Beto keeping this race within 8 or 10 in 2022. That will be a toxic environment for Dems, Abbott has a huge war chest and he's more or less thought of as a bland and boring GOP.  This shouldn't be close I wouldn't think.  

Don't count out Huffines knocking a few points off of Abbott, and MAGA True Believers writing in Huffines and/or Trump.

He's doing everything he can to make MAGA think Abbott is Joe Biden in a wheelchair.

[atomheartbevo 89730]

Beto raised $2 million in the first 24 hours.  That seems kind of impressive.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/beto-orourke-raises-2m-in-first-24-hours-of-launching-gubernatorial-campaign/

If I had George Soros money and wanted to help Beto, I'd setup a PAC and be pushing Don Huffines ads all over the rural/red areas of Texas.

It would divide Republicans and remind Democrats of the craziness the GQP is bringing to the table.

[Wulaw Horn 19099]

16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Don't count out Huffines knocking a few points off of Abbott, and MAGA True Believers writing in Huffines and/or Trump.

He's doing everything he can to make MAGA think Abbott is Joe Biden in a wheelchair.

Nah. They aren’t going to fuck around and waste their vote when Beto coming for their guns. 

[washparkhorn 9939]

1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

 

Spot on.

[Biff Tannen 45691]

7 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Nah. They aren’t going to fuck around and waste their vote when Beto coming for their guns. 

This may be right and it's pathetic that people cling to guns as a political issue.  It's a fucking gun.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

The people that think Beto might take their guns were never going to vote for him anyway. 

[burntorangebongos 10747]

Lazer focus on our energy grid and gerrymandering bullshit, Beto. That shit is so egregious,  it pisses off my dead grandmother. I get mad just thinking about all the fear I had of a burst water heater or pipes. Fucking hell, I'm going to donate more money. I fucking hope Huffines drains enough votes from Hot Wheels to give Beto the W but no one I root for ever wins anymore so not worth the emotional investment. Texas is a corrupt banana republic with no good boat drinks or pretty beaches. 

Edited November 17, 2021 by burntorangebongos

[Wulaw Horn 19099]

37 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

The people that think Beto might take their guns were never going to vote for him anyway. 

Holy miss the point Batman. I wasn’t saying they were ever going to consider voting for Beto. I was saying they wouldn’t fuck around with voting for Huffines because they would view the consequences of voting for an obvious spoiler candidate in a 2 party race to be too great to waste their vote. 
 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

22 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Holy miss the point Batman. I wasn’t saying they were ever going to consider voting for Beto. I was saying they wouldn’t fuck around with voting for Huffines because they would view the consequences of voting for an obvious spoiler candidate in a 2 party race to be too great to waste their vote. 

Umm, did you miss the part about Greg Abbott is giving Texas citizenship to anybody with an MS13 tattoo?  And that he's kicking hardworking Texans out of their homes and giving those homes to any Mexicans who cross the border illegally?

[South Austin 52519]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Umm, did you miss the part about Greg Abbott is giving Texas citizenship to anybody with an MS13 tattoo?  And that he's kicking hardworking Texans out of their homes and giving those homes to any Mexicans who cross the border illegally?

He's not kicking anybody.

[Wulaw Horn 19099]

15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Umm, did you miss the part about Greg Abbott is giving Texas citizenship to anybody with an MS13 tattoo?  And that he's kicking hardworking Texans out of their homes and giving those homes to any Mexicans who cross the border illegally?

Any idiot who gets taken up in believing that will believe Beto is literally the antichrist come to steal their guns, rape their women and sell their children to MS-13. It won’t work when the people you are hoping to turn off from a boring run of the mill GOP guy see Beto on the other side of the ballot. 

[burntorangebongos 10747]

Huffines would make more money with Beto winning. Abbott would never be a threat again and he'd grift and build giant coffers on "Beto is the antichrist". 

If he figures that out, who knows, he might try and shit in the punchbowl. He seems like that sort of guy.

[atomheartbevo 89730]

1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Any idiot who gets taken up in believing that will believe Beto is literally the antichrist come to steal their guns, rape their women and sell their children to MS-13. It won’t work when the people you are hoping to turn off from a boring run of the mill GOP guy see Beto on the other side of the ballot. 

You haven't met today's GOP, have you?  Where Donald Trump will claim a Democrat is better than a Republican just because he's pissed at that Republican.

Speaking of Huffines

Edited November 18, 2021 by atomheartbevo

[atomheartbevo 89730]

23 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

Huffines would make more money with Beto winning. Abbott would never be a threat again and he'd grift and build giant coffers on "Beto is the antichrist". 

If he figures that out, who knows, he might try and shit in the punchbowl. He seems like that sort of guy.

Not only that, Huffines would be setup for 2026.  "Abbott couldn't beat Beto BECAUSE ONLY A REAL REPUBLICAN LIKE ME CAN!"

[atomheartbevo 89730]

Good to see Huffines wants to bring back childhood illnesses.

 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

Somebody is butt-hurt that Beto raised so much.

 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

Don, I'd like to see you take on corporations here in Texas and let us know how that goes when they support the Democrat.

 

[Wulaw Horn 19099]

26 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

You haven't met today's GOP, have you?  Where Donald Trump will claim a Democrat is better than a Republican just because he's pissed at that Republican.

Speaking of Huffines

I’m perfectly willing to bet you any amount of money that you want that Beto loses and huffines isn’t a thing electoral that adds up to anything of any significance at all. It’s not a thing. It won’t happen. 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

14 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I’m perfectly willing to bet you any amount of money that you want that Beto loses and huffines isn’t a thing electoral that adds up to anything of any significance at all. It’s not a thing. It won’t happen. 

Beto doesn't win if it's just Abbot on the right, but don't forget that Huffines appears to be a True Believer.   True Believers are unpredictable. As @burntorangebongos pointed out,  Huffines may decide it's worth taking Abbott out in the general, because it benefits Huffines financially and opens up the primary in 2026.

And I still remember the 2006 shitshow when Rick Perry won with 39% of the vote in a divided field that had four candidates pulling double-digits.

[Satchel 6938]

12 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

Liz's values are built around war mongering. And the money, power that comes with it.

She is just as useless as Abbott when it comes to things that matter.

You mean, things like, the preservation of democracy?

[Brothahorn 10087]

You mean, things like, the preservation of democracy?

If you think she is on some high moral ground, then I got some prime swamp land to sell you. Trump is a political adversary to her.

She's a neocon in the Bush mold, don't ever forget that.

[bolverk 29685]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

You haven't met today's GOP, have you?  Where Donald Trump will claim a Democrat is better than a Republican just because he's pissed at that Republican.

Speaking of Huffines

[Satchel 6938]

1 hour ago, Brothahorn said:

If you think she is on some high moral ground, then I got some prime swamp land to sell you. Trump is a political adversary to her.

She's a neocon in the Bush mold, don't ever forget that.

I consider her a political adversary who is on the right side of the fight to preserve American democracy. 

[mchookem 16336]

9 minutes ago, Satchel said:

I consider her a political adversary who is on the right side of the fight to preserve American democracy. 

good description. it at least presumes you are playing the same game. 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2678]

Can One Tough Grandma enter the race and further split the R vote? Or is she deceased? Someone get her 5th husband to rouse her up

[texas08 1599]

Is huffines huffing paint?

what a lunatic

[Biff Tannen 45691]

1 hour ago, mchookem said:

good description. it at least presumes you are playing the same game. 

This is actually something that should always be remembered. When engaging with most “conservative” posters in here, they aren’t playing the same game. They don’t acknowledge the “rules” or really any common decency. It’s either a grift, a troll, or an actual insane person. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

11 hours ago, texas08 said:

Is huffines huffing paint?

what a lunatic

[Brothahorn 10087]

This is actually something that should always be remembered. When engaging with most “conservative” posters in here, they aren’t playing the same game. They don’t acknowledge the “rules” or really any common decency. It’s either a grift, a troll, or an actual insane person. 

I feel the same way when dealing with the progressive posters in here.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

14 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

This is actually something that should always be remembered. When engaging with most “conservative” posters in here, they aren’t playing the same game. They don’t acknowledge the “rules” or really any common decency. It’s either a grift, a troll, or an actual insane person. 

 

2 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

I feel the same way when dealing with the progressive posters in here.

The main issue with either of those two descriptors is that they seem to have morphed as much as the term 'critical race theory' or 'socialism' and so on. The meaning is amorphous to fit the conversation. It's not a good sign though.

[StassneyHorn 6614]

3 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

I feel the same way when dealing with the progressive posters in here.

[atomheartbevo 89730]

These people are about as interested in actually defining what they think CRT means, as they are in defending what "Texas values" are.

 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

What the fuck, are they all red-headed?  

 

[atomheartbevo 89730]

 

[Biff Tannen 45691]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

These people are about as interested in actually defining what they think CRT means, as they are in defending what "Texas values" are.

 

Holy right wing buzzwords batman!

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19103]

On 11/17/2021 at 12:37 PM, South Austin said:

Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.