Sellout Republicans are not just an issue in Washington DC. They are also a serious issue in the reddest of red states, Texas.
The Republican Party has held a majority of the Texas legislature since 1991, and the governor’s mansion since George W. Bush won in 1994. By all accounts, it has been a great run. Our economy is booming, our population has exploded as people leave Blue States and come to Texas for economic and other opportunity. But it could be better, and a major hinderance to this is the Texas Republican Party. Or should I say a section of its leadership.
I shock people when I tell them that the Democrats have elected the current and last Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Former speaker Dade “Drunk Dade” Phelan was elected head of the House of Representatives by a vote of the majority of Democrats in 2023. He turned a handful of Republicans to support him with the overwhelming majority of Democrats to win the speaker’s chair.
Since then Mr. Phelan has supported multiple GOP priorities, but not the critical ones. School choice and election security. Opposition to these two critical issues are the hills the Democrats will pull out all the stops to keep from being enacted (teachers unions and keeping illegal aliens/dead people voting), and the UDs will be glad to help, as long as it keeps them in power.
The GOP base was not happy with Mr. Phelan and the incumbent speaker was primaried with a conservative. The only reason Phelan survived his primary was by spending over 10 million (in a rural area) and having over 1, 000 Democrats crossed party lines in the election to vote for a “Republican.”
The chamber currently has 88 Republican members and 62 Democrats. The GOP base, which has kept the Democrats from majority for over three decades, is angered that the minority party has a veto of the leader of the House. Importantly, deciding on what bills come to the floor and as a minority party getting multiple committee chairs.
Last week the Democrats and a handful of UDs elected another Undocumented Democrat to run the Texas House of Representatives, Dustin Burrows. This chart explains a lot of the appeal. Of the 49 Democrats who voted for him, 6 chaired committees in the last legislature. In a house “controlled” by Republicans.
Source: Michael Berry Show
After the last legislature the GOP base took action against the sell outs. In March 2024, there were 59 GOP contested primary elections, of which 46 had an incumbent running. Six of the incumbents lost in the primary election. In May 2024, of 13 primary run offs, with 8 incumbents, the currently serving member lost in 6 races. A total of 12 incumbent GOP members, UDs who voted against school choice and to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, lost their reelection bid. In spite of of this effort, the Democrats still managed to conspire with enough sell out Republicans to elect a speaker.
The point of this? Because someone is a Republican, that doesn’t make him a conservative. Top of my head, John Boehner, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Each one of these men sold America out to the Democrats and would again in a second.
Republicans In Name Only don’t just inhabit Washington, but the states. And if they can infest Texas, they can infest Jackson MS, Baton Rough LA, Montgomery LA or Tallahassee FL. And we the people need to keep our eyes on these people, and if they are selling us out, vote them out.
The only way we got a Republican House in Washington was by voting out Bob Michaels. That led to the Republican Revolution of the 1990s. The GOP base needs to continue working at the national as well as state and local level, to support actual conservatives. We need to fund individual candidates, not the GOP itself (I stopped donating to the RNC over a decade ago, but I do give directly to specific candidates). UDs at every level need to be eliminated in the primary to keep them away from any lever of power in the party.
It’s been shown countless times, when the UDs give the GOP base a choice of “disaster, or sucks slightly less,” our voters will likely stay home. We can’t let them give us that choice. After three terms of Obama, and the Democrats becoming more radical by the day, we can’t let the Carl Roves, etc., help the Dems destroy this country.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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