Texas Governor's Race 2022

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

More Huffines supporters

I'd be overwhelmingly surprised if this guy had not voted for Huffines, I think he works with the campaign. He was a Young Conservatives of Texas guy at Baylor, and I think he may possibly be behind a couple of some stan Twitter accounts that tweet Huffines support.

 

[The Dog 44060]

On 2/14/2022 at 4:28 PM, Snake Diggity said:

I still think Abbott would win, but Huffines going 3rd party would definitely make it interesting.

On 2/14/2022 at 5:44 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

Ah who am I kidding, Abbott would still beat Beto by 5-6% even with Huffines in the race. 

Since this is an R +10 state he'd need to pull 10-15% in the general and all of it would need to be at Abbott's expense. I know there are a lot of kooky Republicans who are unhappy with Abbott because of the mask mandates and such but they will either need to rally around a third candidate or just stay home for Beto to have a shot. Beto isn't particularly popular, either. 

It's been touched on up thread, but the Texas Democratic Party needs to find and recruit candidates who can win in this state. And just get their shit together in general. Provide some viable alternatives that can appeal past the base. 

 

[Nolacycling 893]

The Huffines radio commercials are hilarious, makes it sound as if Abbott is a screaming liberal. Interviewed on conservative SA radio yesterday and the host had a very hard time distinguishing between Huffine's "True Republican" spiel and playing politics to keep votes in Abbot's camp. I am enjoying this primary fight.

[DigglerontheHoof 21202]

that is one creepy looking little imp

[atomheartbevo 89718]

10 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I'd be overwhelmingly surprised if this guy had not voted for Huffines, I think he works with the campaign. He was a Young Conservatives of Texas guy at Baylor, and I think he may possibly be behind a couple of some stan Twitter accounts that tweet Huffines support.

I'm honestly surprised the Huffines campaign hasn't went out and bought a bunch of social media followers (i.e. bots).  It's one of the cheapest things a campaign can do and can push candidates' content out to a wider audience.

[atomheartbevo 89718]

10 hours ago, The Dog said:

Since this is an R +10 state he'd need to pull 10-15% in the general and all of it would need to be at Abbott's expense. I know there are a lot of kooky Republicans who are unhappy with Abbott because of the mask mandates and such but they will either need to rally around a third candidate or just stay home for Beto to have a shot. Beto isn't particularly popular, either. 

It's been touched on up thread, but the Texas Democratic Party needs to find and recruit candidates who can win in this state. And just get their shit together in general. Provide some viable alternatives that can appeal past the base. 

10 hours ago, Nolacycling said:

The Huffines radio commercials are hilarious, makes it sound as if Abbott is a screaming liberal. Interviewed on conservative SA radio yesterday and the host had a very hard time distinguishing between Huffine's "True Republican" spiel and playing politics to keep votes in Abbot's camp. I am enjoying this primary fight.

If Huffines and his followers truly believed everything Huffines was saying about Abbott, it would be Huffines' duty as a God-fearing Texan to run third party and knock out Abbott, and it would be the duty of his followers to not vote for Abbott or stay home.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

I just got home a few minutes ago to discover that Ted Nugent called!

No, he didn’t want his shirt back, he was telling me to go vote for West. 
 

It was a really weird message but pretty similar to Brisket’s EagleFreedomGun speech. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I'm honestly surprised the Huffines campaign hasn't went out and bought a bunch of social media followers (i.e. bots).  It's one of the cheapest things a campaign can do and can push candidates' content out to a wider audience.

Twitter has changed their policies around so it is harder for me to dig like I used to; it limits the views unless you have an account. I was surprised it took them that long, but they likely realized how many of the other platforms like Gab were just screenshotting tweets and then putting them on their own accounts. 

[atomheartbevo 89718]

 

[Goofyboy 3293]

Twitter was trending with a poll that Beto was closing the gap to Abbott. I couldn’t find anything. Any truth or accuracy to that statement?

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

[atomheartbevo 89718]

20 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

Twitter was trending with a poll that Beto was closing the gap to Abbott. I couldn’t find anything. Any truth or accuracy to that statement?

A part of me hopes that's not the case, because Huffines was giving Abbott shit over the fact that DeSantis/Florida is trying to withhold funding to schools with mask mandates, and all we need is Abbott trying to do the same and costing taxpayers millions of more dollars (while making some lawyers rich).

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

It was a Newsweek article today:

https://www.newsweek.com/beto-orourke-narrows-abbotts-lead-49-say-texas-wrong-track-poll-1681021

DMN and UT-Tyler poll. 38% going for O' Rourke and 45 % for Abbott.

[Satchel 6938]

Even before the real dirt starts flying, Abbott’s 15 point lead is down to 7. That’s great news.

[Guest Lobo]

44 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

The brown immigrant dude from Springfield endorsed Huffines?  Weird.

[Fudge Nuggets 19202]

Unpainted Huffines isn’t running any third party campaign in the general.  Abbott will pay him off to get him to STFU and stay out of it.

[Beau Vine 54247]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

So he's a union lapdog, huh?

[Bozo_Casanova 26487]

1 hour ago, Goofyboy said:

Twitter was trending with a poll that Beto was closing the gap to Abbott. I couldn’t find anything. Any truth or accuracy to that statement?

No. It’s the usual hopium. 

[F250 28777]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Never heard of these clowns before.

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26487]

21 minutes ago, F250 said:

Never heard of these clowns before.

 

That’s a good tweet TBH. I had wondered what LonghornLaw was up to…

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13585]

You're either pro-Family or pro-Orphan.

Take. A. Stand.

[Biff Tannen 45691]

6 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

You're either pro-Family or pro-Orphan.

Take. A. Stand.

I’m an atheist, pro-orphan, globalist. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13515]

8 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

45-38 in a poll of registered voters (read: not screened for likely voters) before the campaign attack season starts isn’t even very good hopium.   He’s going to get trounced.  

If Beto runs his good guy campaign like he did with Cruz, he won’t come close to winning. And even running a mud slinging campaign probably wouldn’t be enough but at least it would change things up.

Beto needs someone that can be the bad guy by tying Abbott to Patrick and Paxton. That could peel off 1-2% of Abbott’s lead. Or refer to the 80k Texas Covid deaths as Abbott’s Deaths. Bringing up Covid is something Abbott doesn’t want. You have conservatives that think Abbott overreached so Abbott wants to forget about Covid.  Or have commercials about Abbott using the Texas guard as political pawns on the border.

Of course if Beto refused to go negative with Cruz, when he has a chance to win, he isn’t doing it with Abbott.

[HenryJames 66082]

9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

So he's a union lapdog, huh?

[atomheartbevo 89718]

https://www.facebook.com/Donhuffinestx/posts/481507640198795

"There are too many lisenses and restrictions in Texas.

When I am Governor, we will have more freedom and less government, no excuses"

 

[atomheartbevo 89718]

https://www.facebook.com/Donhuffinestx/posts/481026973580195

 

[atomheartbevo 89718]

 

[Satchel 6938]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Straight outta Floydada.

[DaysOff 7951]

https://www.facebook.com/Donhuffinestx/posts/481507640198795
"There are too many lisenses and restrictions in Texas.
When I am Governor, we will have more freedom and less government, no excuses"  

I'd like to get rid of the FAA medical. Maybe recurrent checkrides too.

[atomheartbevo 89718]

Somebody had to have deliberately trolled the shit out of ole Don

 

[atomheartbevo 89718]

That moment when you realize the chair is too tall

 

This guy gave the introduction - looks like the typical Huffines support amirite:

 

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Seriously, he's what 4'02" tall?

[Guest Lobo]

Or, for some bizarre marketing purpose, that venue has the world's largest podium.

"Clark, be nice to Aunt Edna!"

"Fine.  But perhaps she doesn't want to get in the car and see the world's largest podium and ball of twine!" 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

https://www.facebook.com/Donhuffinestx/posts/481507640198795

"There are too many lisenses and restrictions in Texas.

When I am Governor, we will have more freedom and less government, no excuses"

 

 

Don? WTF? "I'm going to get rid of property taxes and use existing  revenue streams."

Hmmmm, I have a bad feeling about this.

 

[South Austin 52518]

35 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

"I'm going to get rid of property taxes and use reduce existing revenue streams."

Fixed.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

15 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Fixed.

That's the sum of it, but he is contradicting what he said earlier. He's lucky his supporters don't look too hard at the financials. Be pretty cool if someone could get him on the record stating some of the other 'revenue streams' he's looking to eliminate.

[CooterBrown 18014]

I'm sure the only revenue stream he supports is civil asset forfeiture.

 

Edited February 22, 2022 by CooterBrown

[The Original Greaser Bob 2841]

On 2/21/2022 at 7:51 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If Beto runs his good guy campaign like he did with Cruz, he won’t come close to winning. And even running a mud slinging campaign probably wouldn’t be enough but at least it would change things up.

Beto needs someone that can be the bad guy by tying Abbott to Patrick and Paxton. That could peel off 1-2% of Abbott’s lead. Or refer to the 80k Texas Covid deaths as Abbott’s Deaths. Bringing up Covid is something Abbott doesn’t want. You have conservatives that think Abbott overreached so Abbott wants to forget about Covid.  Or have commercials about Abbott using the Texas guard as political pawns on the border.

Of course if Beto refused to go negative with Cruz, when he has a chance to win, he isn’t doing it with Abbott.

Beto needs to do a photo op killing some hogs from a helicopter and at least one axis deer. 

Locks in the victory if we can get a photo of him executing a hog in a trap with a handgun.

This is my stance before and still is.  If he's not a hunter he needs to go out on a lark with Peter Attia and Lance Armstrong "and have good Texans know he understands responsible gun ownership and sustainable meat harvesting*."

*That's what I'm talking about.

[David Dennison 18915]

31 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

I'm sure the only revenue stream he supports is civil asset forfeiture.

 

Don't forget about pots of gold and Lucky Charms.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Don't forget about ... Lucky Charms.

Why anyone would want his much less be able to find them is one of the mysteries of the modern era.

[kevwun 15797]

Someone should probably explain to Huffines that if he cuts every source of government funding, there won't be a State of Texas Government left for him to be Governor of.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

7 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Someone should probably explain to Huffines that if he cuts every source of government funding, there won't be a State of Texas Government left for him to be Governor of.

he would somehow spin that as a good thing. "See? The govmint wasn't working for you, so I got rid of it!"

[fattyflattie 4639]

3 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Beto needs to do a photo op killing some hogs from a helicopter and at least one axis deer. 

Locks in the victory if we can get a photo of him executing a hog in a trap with a handgun.

This is my stance before and still is.  If he's not a hunter he needs to go out on a lark with Peter Attia and Lance Armstrong "and have good Texans know he understands responsible gun ownership and sustainable meat harvesting*."

*That's what I'm talking about.

Unless he does it with a stick, that ship has pretty much sailed. 

[Texas73 421]

Beto's quote: “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”

People have interpreted that to mean he wants to take all guns away. 

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21202]

Beto will never, ever, ever get elected to a state-wide position.  Fin

[Nice Guy Eddie 13515]

22 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

https://www.facebook.com/Donhuffinestx/posts/481507640198795

"There are too many lisenses and restrictions in Texas.

When I am Governor, we will have more freedom and less government, no excuses"

 

I used to work with one of those hardcore freedom lovin' conservatives. He used to bitch about annual vehicle inspections and how it wasn't the govt's business to inspect his vehicle. His POS car belched out black smoke. He gave zero fucks about the black smoke since it disappeared within a minute.

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

 

I remember when these assholes were all twisted panties about "mexican trucks" being allowed to enter the US under Nafta rules because of how unsafe they were.

 

 

So, Huffines, no driver's licenses, no hunting licenses, no teacher certifications, no law licenses, no medical licenses, no pilot's licenses?

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Here's a theory for how to make the absence of that revenue stream work in Don's favor.

Perhaps Huffines receives kickbacks from the entrepreneurs who liberate catalytic converters from vehicles and figures that it's a win-win. Now when your converter is stolen removed you don't have to worry about failing inspection.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I remember when these assholes were all twisted panties about "mexican trucks" being allowed to enter the US under Nafta rules because of how unsafe they were.

 

 

So, Huffines, no driver's licenses, no hunting licenses, no teacher certifications, no law licenses, no medical licenses, no pilot's licenses?

 

But you can be damn sure there will be marriage licenses and they will be used as a weapon.

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

 

I trying to imagine in Huffines's world of no licenses, somebody trying to rent a car in another state with no texas DL.