“Winner-take-all” would make the May 29th Texas Republican primary perhaps somewhat relevant. The RNC must get it done right now.

On Wednesday, I posted here “I’m a Republican in Texas and I’d like to cast a meaningful vote in a presidential primary.”

One comment was titled “100% agree nomination process is messed up.” Another comment was titled “Re: Non Republican states end up picking our nominee.”

One comment cut right to the point: “Texas delivers more electoral votes for the GOP nominee in every Presidential election. Texas has a lot of clout, why they don’t use it baffles me. If I lived in TX I would be calling for the heads of the GOP party leadership. How much more incompetence do GOP voters in TX have to put up with.”

Texas Republicans are so worthless that we don’t even have a Republican debate. It’s over! Vote for the Massachusetts liberal because others have selected him for you!

From the Austin American-Statesman:

Effort would change Texas primary to winner-take-all, benefit Santorum
By Chuck Lindell
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 10:00 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 2012
Trailing badly in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Rick Santorum is banking on a fast-moving effort to change the Texas primary into a winner-take-all affair, sending all 152 eligible delegates to the state’s top vote-getter.

Weston Martinez, a Santorum supporter and Texas Republican Party official, said Thursday that he has lined up enough support to call the party’s executive committee into an emergency session to consider the change.

Martinez said a winner-take-all format could rescue the Texas primary from potential irrelevancy after delays caused by redistricting lawsuits pushed the election to May 29.

From the Houston Chronicle:

Could Texas be big player with winner-take-all GOP primary?
Posted by Peggy Fikac on April 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm
(…)
Changing the Texas rules – which now provide for a candidate to get delegates based on vote percentage in the primary – first would require a petition signed by 15 of the 62 Executive Committee members for an emergency meeting, which would have to be held in 14 days.

From the Texas Conservative Republican News:

Thursday, April 5, 2012
Urgent: Texas GOP “Winner Take All”
Emergency SREC Meeting
Now it is time to take it to the next step. Now it is time to do something that we should have done a long time ago. Now is the time for Texas Republicans to have a voice and be relevant. It is time to go back to winner take all!

We need 15 members of the 62 Texas Republican Party State Republican Executive Committee members to sign a petition in order to call for an emergency meeting of the SREC to change the Texas GOP rules back to us being a Winner Take All state instead of being proportional.

We already have 15 or more members ready to sign the petition to call this emergency meeting.

SUMMARY
It’s pathetic that Texas Republicans can’t pick a Republican nominee for president. Why? Because Virginia knocked everybody but Mitt Romney and Ron Paul off the ballot? Because Romney won a few blue states? No one cares about Texas?

“Winner-take-all” is the least the RNC can do at this point.

If the RNC doesn’t do it, it will only show that the process is rigged.

Either way, Texas wuz robbed.

My first introduction to politics was at 10 years old, volunteering with my parents on a State House campaign. What hooked me on political involvement was that we lost by 12 votes on a re-count and I knew that even at 10 years old I could have found 13 more votes if I’d have worked harder. 

The promise I’ve made myself in every election cycle since is that no matter what capacity I was working in, I would give everything I’ve got and that win or lose, I would know there wasn’t anything else I could have done to send my candidate to victory.

For the last three years I’ve been working full-time in conservative grassroots politics, training activists, identifying and equipping candidates. That’s been my universe and Texas has been at the center of it. During that time I’ve had the privilege of training and interacting with thousands of TEA Partiers and conservative activists who wan’t to move our state and country in the right direction.

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My first introduction to politics was at 10 years old, volunteering with my parents on a State House campaign. What hooked me on political involvement was that we lost by 12 votes on a re-count and I knew that even at 10 years old I could have found 13 more votes if I’d have worked harder. 

The promise I’ve made myself in every election cycle since is that no matter what capacity I was working in, I would give everything I’ve got and that win or lose, I would know there wasn’t anything else I could have done to send my candidate to victory.

For the last three years I’ve been working full-time in conservative grassroots politics, training activists, identifying and equipping candidates. That’s been my universe and Texas has been at the center of it. During that time I’ve had the privilege of training and interacting with thousands of TEA Partiers and conservative activists who wan’t to move our state and country in the right direction.

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So Gov. Rick Perry seems to have gotten over the entire debacle that was his run for The GOP nomination and gone back to doing what Governor Perry does well. He’s on the phone swinging deals to bring jobs and power down South to The Rio Grande. Well not quite that far South, he’s targeting Austin, TX instead. The Austin American-Statesman reveals details.

Apple Inc. is proposing to more than double its operations in Austin over the next 10 years, creating as many as 3,600 jobs in what it is calling its Americas Operations Center. The proposal was announced Friday by Gov. Rick Perry, who said the State of Texas has offered Apple $21 million in incentives over 10 years from the Texas Enterprise Fund to win the deal.

He may not have been quite ready for the presidency, but back home in his milieu, Rick Perry makes it rain like Vince Young at a local strip joint. One thing stands in the way of Gov. Perry giving Texas a nice, healthy bite off the apple – Travis County Democratic Party leadership. According to the American Thinker, the Travis County Democrats are attempting to hold the entire deal up so that they can exert control over who Apple Computer hires.

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So Gov. Rick Perry seems to have gotten over the entire debacle that was his run for The GOP nomination and gone back to doing what Governor Perry does well. He’s on the phone swinging deals to bring jobs and power down South to The Rio Grande. Well not quite that far South, he’s targeting Austin, TX instead. The Austin American-Statesman reveals details.

Apple Inc. is proposing to more than double its operations in Austin over the next 10 years, creating as many as 3,600 jobs in what it is calling its Americas Operations Center. The proposal was announced Friday by Gov. Rick Perry, who said the State of Texas has offered Apple $21 million in incentives over 10 years from the Texas Enterprise Fund to win the deal.

He may not have been quite ready for the presidency, but back home in his milieu, Rick Perry makes it rain like Vince Young at a local strip joint. One thing stands in the way of Gov. Perry giving Texas a nice, healthy bite off the apple – Travis County Democratic Party leadership. According to the American Thinker, the Travis County Democrats are attempting to hold the entire deal up so that they can exert control over who Apple Computer hires.

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In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, the conservative candidate clearly is Ted Cruz. His record of fighting for conservative ideals is clear, as I have noted before. Senator DeMint has endorsed him, as has Senator Mike Lee, the Club for Growth and a number of other important conservative voices.

But the establishment and conventional wisdom remains behind Lt. Gov Dewhurst as the favorite – despite the fact he has shown relatively poor polling, mediocre fundraising and is relying on his personal wealth to try to persuade Texans he is actually conservative. But the truth is hard to hide. I have pointed out before that Dewhurst is a moderate in the mold of Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Thus, we affectionately refer to him as Dewcrist.

Everyone in Austin knows DewCrist is a moderate. Everyone in Austin knows he stands in the way of conservative policy. Everyone in Austin knows he would be the first guy in the U.S. Senate to join the “club” and saddle up to Mitch McConnell to be a “team player,” no matter what principle dictates or what the people of Texas actually want.

But now, even academic research is making this crystal clear. In the Texas Tribune, Rice University Professor Mark Jones explains his rather detailed analysis of Dewcrist and his ideological placement among those in the Texas Senate, the body over which he presides as Lt. Governor. Jones describes him as follows:

“Is Dewhurst a “moderate?” Yes, if by that one means that he would appear to be significantly less conservative than approximately one-third of the Republican delegation in the Texas Senate.”

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In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, the conservative candidate clearly is Ted Cruz. His record of fighting for conservative ideals is clear, as I have noted before. Senator DeMint has endorsed him, as has Senator Mike Lee, the Club for Growth and a number of other important conservative voices.

But the establishment and conventional wisdom remains behind Lt. Gov Dewhurst as the favorite – despite the fact he has shown relatively poor polling, mediocre fundraising and is relying on his personal wealth to try to persuade Texans he is actually conservative. But the truth is hard to hide. I have pointed out before that Dewhurst is a moderate in the mold of Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Thus, we affectionately refer to him as Dewcrist.

Everyone in Austin knows DewCrist is a moderate. Everyone in Austin knows he stands in the way of conservative policy. Everyone in Austin knows he would be the first guy in the U.S. Senate to join the “club” and saddle up to Mitch McConnell to be a “team player,” no matter what principle dictates or what the people of Texas actually want.

But now, even academic research is making this crystal clear. In the Texas Tribune, Rice University Professor Mark Jones explains his rather detailed analysis of Dewcrist and his ideological placement among those in the Texas Senate, the body over which he presides as Lt. Governor. Jones describes him as follows:

“Is Dewhurst a “moderate?” Yes, if by that one means that he would appear to be significantly less conservative than approximately one-third of the Republican delegation in the Texas Senate.”

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Yesterday the Ted Cruz for US Senate campaign launch a new TV ad and an ObamaCare Repeal Moneybomb.

The campaign set a goal of raising $100,000 from March 21-23—the two year anniversary of when ObamaCare was passed and signed by President Obama—so we can send a conservative fighter to repeal it.  Below is an update from the campaign on how close Ted is to meeting his $100,000 goal.

Will you help Ted get to $100,000? Please contribute now and ask 10 friends to do the same.

With 69 days to election day and 10 days left in the fundraising quarter the Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate campaign launched its first television ad of the Senate race “Delivers,” and launched an Obamacare Repeal Money Bomb.

The 30-second spot, “Delivers,” highlight’s Cruz’s successful work as the Solicitor General of Texas defending U.S. sovereignty against the United Nations and World Court in the case Medellin vs. Texas. The ad also reaffirms Cruz’s commitment to leading the fight for fiscal responsibility in Washington.

The central case discussed in the ad is Medellin vs. Texas. Jose Ernesto Medellin brutally gang-raped and murdered two teenage girls in Houston. When the World Court tried to order the United States to reopen Medellin’s conviction (along with the convictions of 50 other murderers), Cruz fought the World Court and the U.N. all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won 6-3.

The ObamaCare Repeal Money Bomb is running for three days with the goal of raising $100,000.  The Money Bomb is running to Friday March 23rd, the date President Obama signed ObamaCare into law.  Will you contribute today to help repeal ObamaCare and to keep Ted’s TV ad on the air?

The “Delivers” TV ad script is below.

“DELIVERS” – SCRIPT

(Announcer)

When the U.N. and World Court overruled a Texas jury’s verdict to execute an illegal alien for raping and murdering two teenage girls, Ted Cruz fought all the way to the Supreme Court and he delivered.

Politicians from both parties have broken promises, driven us to the brink of bankruptcy, and failed to secure the border.

Politicians cut deals; principled conservatives deliver.

Ted Cruz, a proven conservative fighter who delivers.

Choose Cruz for U.S. Senate.

(Ted Cruz)

I’m Ted Cruz and I approve this message.

As the nation marks today’s ominous two-year anniversary of Obamacare, we should focus on how we fully repeal it. One place to look closely is the U.S. Senate race in Texas. Ted Cruz, the conservative in the race, has been consistent and tough on the issue from the beginning. He needs our help today.

The fight against Obamacare, Cruz says, “presents an historic opportunity to stop this Administration’s relentless drive towards European-style socialism” and a “vital opportunity to defend freedom.”

“The arguments that the Obama Administration is making in support of the individual mandate, at bottom, would allow Congress to do anything. Congress could order Americans to buy anything, not to buy anything, or to do anything it wished. Few things could be more destructive to our liberty.”

Now, Cruz has launched a fundraising drive tied to repeal. The “ObamaCare Repeal Bomb” to raise $100,000 will help Ted against his chief opponent, the self funding multi-millionaire and moderate establishment pick, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Dewhurst talks a big game about repeal, but his track record would suggest otherwise. For example, Dewhurst thanked the Obama administration for the stimulus money and killed the anti-TSA groping bill after pressure from the White House. If his halting attack on Obamacare isn’t surprising, it’s because deep down, Dewhurst simply doesn’t appear able to commit to fighting for conservative principles.

This election is a chance for Texans to stand up and show that they will not let Obamacare stand, and they will unite to elect a new Senator who is committed to defeating the Obama agenda.

Please contribute to Ted’s Repeal Bomb and do everything you can to support him today.