A hack Washington DC writer named Brent Budowsky revealed the low quality of the national Democratic push to make progress in Texas. Budowsky is a former Lloyd Bentsen staffer.
In The Hill, an activist DC newspaper, Budowsky used a scattershot approach of stock race-bating tactics to attempt to smear prominent Texas Republicans as “anti-minority”.
In a fit of hack prophecy, Budowsky was kind enough to inform us that a wave of angry minorities shall flood voter booths in 2014 – and he sees seven men carrying seven horns of oil, walking among seven golden lampstands.
This is predictable. The national Democrat machine has traditionally had success by sewing hatred between ethnic groups.
Unfortunately for them, racial tension in Texas is much lower than other states, and for any number of reasons.
For one thing, victimhood grows on rocky soil in Texas – it is incompatible with the spirit of the state. Our state was born in struggle, long-odds, a pioneering spirit, and risk-taking.
Also, the Americans who first came to Texas weren’t imperialists, cultural or otherwise. They were individuals trying to build lives for their families, invited by the Mexican government, and uninterested in imposing any grand vision on the people who were already here.
The Texas War for Independence was mostly a result of dumb governance, not from any mounting sense of oppression or tension. All at once the Mexican government tried to levy big taxes on people who had lived for a long time without them. If you’re going to do that, you had better have the muscle on the ground to enforce them, which the Mexican government didn’t.
This will be the second time in recent memory an earnest attempt to “turn Texas blue” has taken place. Four years ago was the culmination of a notoriously expensive and failed push by the Democrats to turn Texas blue.
The current attempt was put together back when Obama felt like he could run through mountains. Hugely ambitious and arrogant, the audacity to try to turn Texas blue fit with the spirit of that moment .
Now they’re stuck with the project in the face of an unpopular President who is losing allies daily. And with ammo like Budowsky’s bad hit piece, the future is not bright for this project.
–Budowsky article