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jason812 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:46 am I can't find a better version of this but Cruz told the caravan there are free homes for them when they get here. Just look for the "Beto" sign in the front yard.

Well done Mr. Cruz, well done.

We should go to paper ballots only. No Straight Party voting allowed, just a list of names and offices they are running for and fill in the blank.

If you're too stupid to vote like that you should stay home and paper ballots are very hard to manipulate once filled out and submitted.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:10 am

Middle Age Russ wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:01 am

Funny thing. I am as white as one can get and the race of a candidate never even enters my mind. I vote for the candidate who best represents my concerns. But I hear minorities often admitting to placing a vote for the person who best fits their race. If I did this it would be called racist. They do this and it is acceptable reasoning. Why is this OK?

Not meaning to derail the topic, but it seems that some isms (Racism, Sexism, Ageism come to mind) come with a double standard built in -- at least for folks with little character, who often appear leading the chants against others. I recall something from scripture admonishing those who'd cast the first stone... A person of any color may be racist against people of any color. Even so and inconveniently so in cases you won't see publicized much, racism of any kind is wrong, full stop.

Back to the topic at hand, Cruz' epic photo picking up Shiner Bock at a Buccee's stop yesterday has gotten some pretty good publicity returns, particularly in relation to Robert O's "cool kid" attempts.

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/t ... rrectness/
THE RISE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
By: Angelo M. Codevilla

What serves progressive revolutionaries’ interests is not in doubt. Although each of progressivism’s branches differs in how it defines society’s “structural” fault, in its own name for the human reality that it seeks to overcome, and in the means by which to achieve its ends, progressives from the 19th century to our time are well nigh identical in their personal predilections—in what and whom they hate even more than in what they love. They see the culture of what Marxists call “bourgeois morality” as the negation of their identity and authority. That identity, their identity, is to be promoted, endlessly, by endless warfare against that culture. That is why the cultural campaigns of otherwise dissimilar progressives have been so similar. Leninist Russia no less than various Western democrats have tried to eradicate religion, to make it difficult for men, women, and children to exist as families, and to demand that their subjects join them in celebrating the new order that reflects their identity. Note well: cultural warfare’s substantive goal is less important than the affirmation of the warriors’ own identity. This is what explains the animus with which progressives have waged their culture wars.

That’s just one paragraph from a long and brilliant article on the subject of political correctness; and explains why we are, in the long term, doomed. They will have their revolution, sooner or later, and lately, it’s looking like sooner.

It's ok. We're better armed, prepared and unlike the vast majority of the whiners on the left we won't sit around complainging expecting someone else to solve the problem for us.

Never pick a fight you can't win.

Middle Age Russ wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:01 am

Funny thing. I am as white as one can get and the race of a candidate never even enters my mind. I vote for the candidate who best represents my concerns. But I hear minorities often admitting to placing a vote for the person who best fits their race. If I did this it would be called racist. They do this and it is acceptable reasoning. Why is this OK?

Not meaning to derail the topic, but it seems that some isms (Racism, Sexism, Ageism come to mind) come with a double standard built in -- at least for folks with little character, who often appear leading the chants against others. I recall something from scripture admonishing those who'd cast the first stone... A person of any color may be racist against people of any color. Even so and inconveniently so in cases you won't see publicized much, racism of any kind is wrong, full stop.

Back to the topic at hand, Cruz' epic photo picking up Shiner Bock at a Buccee's stop yesterday has gotten some pretty good publicity returns, particularly in relation to Robert O's "cool kid" attempts.

"Shiner, The National Beer of Texas".

Never trust a man who doesn't like Shiner Bock.

bblhd672 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 7:04 am

WildRose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:52 am No I mean like on a network where he isn't just preaching to the choir. Give than man a real audience and I believe he could be highly effective at converting the doubters. Afterall he was for most of his life one of them. That gives him a unique understanging of how they think and of how to speak to them.

Which network where he wouldn’t be preaching to the choir, one other than Fox News, do you think would offer him a show to speak truth to their audience?
It’s a great idea, just not going to happen. Colion and the rest of us are forced to change minds one at a time because of the progressive socialists who control the networks.

Hence why I preface it with "I wish".

Not much chance such a wish will come true but at least he's got a large enough following on YouTube to catch a lot of people outside our gun loving universe.

bblhd672 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:46 am

WildRose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:34 am
The guy is truly brilliant and gives me hope for the younger generation.

Someone like the NRA, Fox, Priemier networks ough to give him a show, he'd be an instant hit.

You mean like this one on NRA TV that’s in its 7th season?
https://www.nratv.com/series/noir

Guns aren't political. They're the symbolic representation of your right to live. It should scare all of us that we live in a country where something so critical is a taboo topic. I'm tired of the political correctness and dishonesty that have become so common in any conversation about guns. If we can't get past our own discomfort and talk about our freedom, we’re doomed to lose it. On NOIR, I'm doing my part: challenging everyone, whether you're pro, anti or indifferent, to push past the politics and talk about this freedom on real terms.

And of course, it wouldn't be my show if I wasn't shooting some cool guns in the process.

— Colion Noir

No I mean like on a network where he isn't just preaching to the choir. Give than man a real audience and I believe he could be highly effective at converting the doubters. Afterall he was for most of his life one of them. That gives him a unique understanging of how they think and of how to speak to them.

Flightmare wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 1:05 pm I would argue that none of us should be complacent. Cruz may win by a large margin, but that is hardly guaranteed. Vote, and make your voice heard!

This, and be activist by reminding everyone you even think might lean right in any way to get to the polls.

This is the first time since I began voting I hit the polls in the first hour they opened.

This is one of these years where every vote counts and the stakes are increcibly high.

If republican't don't gain seats in the senate, and especially if they should lose the house the next two years are goig to be rough.


Trump hasn't got a principled bone anywhere in his body so he'll do whatever it takes to leave office a success even if it requires throwing everyone who supported him thus far under the bus to accomplish it.

More than him needing our support, the only way we can control him is the expand the lead in the senate and keep control of the house.

There's probably a better than 90% chance of at least one, if not two more supreme court appointments coming in the next two years. Ginsburg looks like walking death and at least one more is well over eighty and considering retirement.

If Trump gets even one more of these and a Republican Senate is still there for the confirmation this nation is going to swing back right further than we've seen in our lifetimes and it will last for probabl two generations.

I get tired of hearing Hannity tell us that "this year is the most important election of our lifetimes" but in truth this one very well may be.

Flightmare wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:24 am Colion Noir's opinion on Beto

The guy is truly brilliant and gives me hope for the younger generation.

Someone like the NRA, Fox, Priemier networks ough to give him a show, he'd be an instant hit.

Soccerdad1995 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:21 pm

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 1:56 pm

TreyHouston wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 1:28 pmVery confusing! Lol!

White-Irish-American guy with a Mexican nickname running on the D ticket.
Cuban-American-Canadian guy named "Ted" running on the R ticket.

It's 100% ok to find it confusing.

Or as I like to sum it up, we have an Irishman pretending to be Hispanic running against a Latino who is pretending to be white.

I'm voting for the Latino! Gotta stay loyal to my people!

I've followed Cruz since his earliest days in politics and honestly long before while he was still a career Lawyer.

In all that time I've never seen him in anyway pretend to be anything other than what he is and he's in fact reminded votes constantly throughout of exactly who and what he is.

Beto... . well no.

tbrown wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:32 pm

WildRose wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:45 am

tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:13 pm

WildRose wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:38 pm

tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:53 pm I'm voting for Cruz but I'm not sure it really matters in the long run. When the Democrats were in charge, the country was cruising along at 60 mph toward a third world socialist-hole. If Bernie had been elected President, the speed might have increased a little or a lot. When Trump was elected, things slowed down for a bit, but it didn't stop. Now we're back up to 45 mph or so, and Grassley wants to give it gas.

We've got to get enough people in the right places to slow it down before we can begin to reverse course.

On that we agree completely. Let's look at the facts. The majority party in the House is the same as the majority party in the Senate. The President is also from that party. It's pretty clear that voting for that party doesn't get the right people in the right places to slow down the double time march toward a third world socialist-hole.

I'm still voting for Cruz but I'm not sure about the rest of them.

Unlike the democrats it's hard as all get out to get republicans to vote a straight party line on anything controversial because so many of them come from purple districts.

You're not going to find a dem that's going to vote with them consistently either and third party votes are just a wasted vote that help dem's win.

Where we have to take a stand and get active is in the primaries to ensure conservatives, not just republicans make the trip to DC and then we can effect some real change.

If the GOP party leadership can't make Republican legislators toe the line on platform issues, that's a big problem. At election time, if the GOP party leadership endorse those who strayed, they're perpetuating the problem. When they do that, they make their endorsement a rubber stamp and effectively useless for conservatives who care about issues more than they care about the party.

I told my elected officials what they need to accomplish to earn my vote. Incumbents who don't deliver don't get my vote.

The longtime speaker of the house was the big problem that kept the decent republicans and conservatives from advancing the cause at a reasonable rate. He was nothing but a leftwing democrat with an R by his name.

He's gone now and I have some faith we'll start gaining a lot more ground a lot more rapidly.

Voting for anything else even third party just ensures we hand over power to those who see us as the enemy.

flechero wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:13 am

bblhd672 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:56 am

flechero wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:30 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:46 pm https://www.star-telegram.com/news/poli ... 32670.html

Beto will have an hour to him self on CNN, as Ted declined to come on CNN.

I hate for Ted to give him an hour of saying anything he wants, uncontested and unchecked.

I get that it's cnn, but he's giving bo a lot of free lee way in this race. I hope Ted knows something that we don't because I'm a bit nervous.

Anyone watching CNN is probably not undecided nor a Republican. If they are a Republican, why watch a "news" network known to lie and distort facts?

Not so sure...

I watch cnn when hot topics are on (like the Kavanaugh accusations) to keep abreast of the other team's arguments/accusations... I also know that LOTS of people who aren't politically active (or affiliated) watch cnn. My point though was that bo will say a number of things that won't be accurate and will get traction since no one is there to correct it. And I think he'll use some clips of it in commercials. Regardless, nothing good comes from an hour of unchecked commentary from him as I'm sure he'll lie about Ted Cruz and both of their positions on issues.

You have a much stronger stomach than I. I can tolerate the alphabet supposed "news channels" and their constant barrage of lies, half truths and completely baseless fabrications for a few minutes at a time.

TV's are expensive and I"m armed.

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:25 pm https://www.star-telegram.com/news/stat ... 51530.html

Article on homemade political yard sign removed by police.

Apparently a typical Beto supporter. Shows a little girl with a Republican Elephants trunk just under her dress.

Not sure why the police would be involved. Does it violate some law?

From the cited article.

At issue in the small community of Hamilton was a homemade yard sign featuring an elephant decorated in red, white and blue with its trunk up the skirt of a female saying the word “Help.” The sign said “Your vote matters.”

Probably in violation of some local obscenity ordinance.

Ortiz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:07 pm My wife and I just registered to vote. In my area, I have only seen one "Beto" sign but right across the street from the elections office was a house with 3 signs for Beto. The honest truth is down here in deep south texas, the simple phrase of "If you don't vote for Beto, they are going to take away your benefits" is what scares the crap out of people to go and vote. Add, "He will bring sanctuary cities here so they can't deport such and such" and you have an almost guaranteed vote throughout the county.

My wife and I are going to vote for Ted Cruz and hope he wins, but down here, he will most likely lose. I hope I'm wrong, I have been seeing more and more trucks flying the U.S along with the "Don't tread on me" flags. I have yet to see ANY Ted Cruz signs but the people down here are NUTS. Should they see it, they will want to mess with your car, the sign, or home. I'm hoping for an actual Red Wave down here and will be completely surprised if the RGV starts turning red. Guess we'll see.

It's sad that the democrats have resigned themselves to buying off the poor and importing illegals to gain and hold power for as long into the future as we can foresee. Worse, they are closer to succeeding now than perhaps at any point in history thanks to the last administration basically doing nothing about the 12-20 million illegals already here but basically welcoming as many more to come as can get here.

Even though most of these people can't currently vote (comprehensive immigration reform/amnesty) however their kids will be legally eligible to vote the day they turn 18. We're now 2 generations past the last promise to get control of our borders which the dem's of course immediately backed down on and neither Bush had the stones to make it a priority.

If we don't take care of it in the next few years we will have surrendered the country to a new "class" of citizen, those from foreign countries drawn here on the promise of never ending welfare benefits who will be willing to take whatever they want by force if it is refused.

That's just the sad reality of what has happened over the last 40 years.

Fortunately the Kavanaugh hearings seem to really be energizing the sane people to get out and vote against a complete takeover by the radical left in November.

tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:13 pm

WildRose wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:38 pm

tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:53 pm I'm voting for Cruz but I'm not sure it really matters in the long run. When the Democrats were in charge, the country was cruising along at 60 mph toward a third world socialist-hole. If Bernie had been elected President, the speed might have increased a little or a lot. When Trump was elected, things slowed down for a bit, but it didn't stop. Now we're back up to 45 mph or so, and Grassley wants to give it gas.

We've got to get enough people in the right places to slow it down before we can begin to reverse course.

On that we agree completely. Let's look at the facts. The majority party in the House is the same as the majority party in the Senate. The President is also from that party. It's pretty clear that voting for that party doesn't get the right people in the right places to slow down the double time march toward a third world socialist-hole.

I'm still voting for Cruz but I'm not sure about the rest of them.

Unlike the democrats it's hard as all get out to get republicans to vote a straight party line on anything controversial because so many of them come from purple districts.

You're not going to find a dem that's going to vote with them consistently either and third party votes are just a wasted vote that help dem's win.

Where we have to take a stand and get active is in the primaries to ensure conservatives, not just republicans make the trip to DC and then we can effect some real change.

tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:53 pm I'm voting for Cruz but I'm not sure it really matters in the long run. When the Democrats were in charge, the country was cruising along at 60 mph toward a third world socialist-hole. If Bernie had been elected President, the speed might have increased a little or a lot. When Trump was elected, things slowed down for a bit, but it didn't stop. Now we're back up to 45 mph or so, and Grassley wants to give it gas.

We've got to get enough people in the right places to slow it down before we can begin to reverse course.