The establishment narratives in Texas have been fired out of their potato guns, and aren’t any more compelling than they’ve been in recent years.
For instance, Quorum Report reported as bad news for conservatives that bond elections and school board candidates opposed by conservatives won anyway. Nobody tell Quorum Report that the political establishment has, until now, controlled these elections so completely that they got what they wanted with neither attention nor opposition. Conservatives are in measurement mode on both of these fronts, and after yesterday finally have more than theory to shoot at.
Over on the left, leftist pollsters Public Policy Polling published a poll revealing Greg Abbott with a commanding lead over Wendy Davis. But Battleground Texas, aka “The Jackass Patrol”, is busy celebrating the “internet survey” poll by the leftist funded and operated 501c3 Texas Tribune. This bit of leftist political porn showed Abbott with a mere 5 point lead. (By the way, “internet survey” is the respectful term used by leftist Texas media first-teamer Peggy Fikac to describe the Texas Tribune “poll”.)
At the national level, conservatives are being encouraged to really, really, really focus on New Jersey, since this liberal state just elected a liberal Republican despite the fact that the nation proves over and over and over they won’t do the same.
It’s times like these, with potato cover in the air, that Republicans looking for excuses want to talk about policy and “the direction of the party” . Somehow they never seem to want to do the same when Ted Cruz is in full voice during his anti-ObamaCare efforts.
As Erick Erickson described well, the Virginia gubernatorial race needed every bit of establishment GOP doubt and neglect it got to beat conservative Steve Cucinelli. By the way, despite nearly winning he was getting trounced in the regular leftist polls, not to mention what any “internet surveys” might have been saying.
Meanwhile, Wendy Davis, who single handedly tried to keep abortion mills open with her backfiring filibuster, still can’t fund-raise in Texas, and is in south Texas trying to claim she is pro-life. Where is the truth-o-meter when you need it? Davis was brought to fame by the same national media who had just finished trying to protect murderer Kermit Gosnell in their fanatical attempts to make all atrocities against babies legal. If Davis insists on calling herself pro-life, she needs to answer for how she can support this (warning: extremely disturbing).
So, the take away for Texas is that conservative up seasons are further up, and conservative down seasons, like right now, aren’t as far down as in the past. Good work.