http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=961 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=961#comment-78751 Dave Shapiro Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:30:30 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=961#comment-78751 What goes around comes around. The discontent on such public display at the Republican state convention once again points up that the grass roots right-wing true believers in Texas, just like those elsewhere, have finally realized that their most cherished conservative principles have been sold down the river by the public officials of the Bush-Perry-Dewhurst stripe they have been electing under the Republican banner lo these many years. The politically savvy Republicans will even acknowledge that their cadre of consultants/operatives trained in the Karl Rove school of government and politics is more interested in holding office than in conservative principles. Their adverse reaction is more widespread and much stronger than was the similar realization by a distinct minority within the Democratic Party circa 1994-2000 that Clinton's trade policy, triangulation and economic policies, as well as his centralized control of the DNC,were disastrous for the Democratic Party and inimical to Democratic constituencies and liberal principles. What goes around comes around. The discontent on such public display at the Republican state convention once again points up that the grass roots right-wing true believers in Texas, just like those elsewhere, have finally realized that their most cherished conservative principles have been sold down the river by the public officials of the Bush-Perry-Dewhurst
stripe they have been electing under the Republican banner lo these many years. The politically savvy Republicans will even acknowledge that their cadre of consultants/operatives trained in the Karl Rove school of government and politics is more interested in holding office than in conservative principles. Their adverse reaction is more widespread and much stronger than was the similar realization by a distinct minority within the Democratic Party circa 1994-2000 that Clinton’s trade policy, triangulation and economic policies, as well as his centralized control of the DNC,were disastrous for the Democratic Party and inimical to Democratic constituencies and liberal principles.

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