The ruling class’s “Texas Conservative Roundtable” has released its new scorecard, and it is more ridiculous than the first.
The first thing to notice is that almost every single Republican got a blue ribbon. The ruling class is about taking care of their own, and this scorecard is exhibit A for that fact. Basically, this worthless scorecard tried to give every Republican legislator a scorecard award to go run his primary on.
Bad for them, scorecards like this are not worth the server space they are written on.
The next thing to notice is that this scorecard gives a double blue ribbon to a group that seems best described as “political goulash”. Some are saying this category is the lesser one, but it is the more exclusive. Anyway, what’s the point in pretending this list makes actual sense? They have a token conservative or two in there to legitimize the list, neither of which will be helped by the association, they have several establishment Republicans, and they even have a Democrat.
Yes folks, the Texas Conservative Roundtable put San Antonio area Democrat Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte into their extra special “guardian” category, but left out San Antonio conservative Republican Senator Donna Campbell, who happens to be so conservative she has drawn an establishment challenger.
This San Antonio storyline probably has nothing at all to do with the fact that the Texas Conservative Roundtable has, from its inception a couple of years ago, been known as Joe Straus’s answer to Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. Releasing their scorecard one day after TFR released theirs? Pure coincidence.
The first scorecard was so awful they had to change it after publishing it.
The funny thing about this entire effort by the moderate/liberal ruling class is that by trying to steal the conservative high ground they prove again to everyone that they know what people in this state want, and it is not what they provide.