Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Alex G]

Ever since the Texas GOP was hijacked by far-Right religious nutjobs in 1994, the party has served as a winning label for many candidates, even if their political philosophy was nowhere close to the party's platform. For many Texas candidates, simply having the label "Republican" on their campaign literature was enough to push them over the top.

Let's face facts. For most Texans, having a rational political thought would be a rather painful as well as a somewhat new and thoroughly frightening experience. Since they've been brainwashed into thinking that Republicans sit at the right hand of God, they will simply vote Republican rather than risking the wrath of the Almighty. (After all, aren't Bill and Hillary Clinton two of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse?)

In the Great State of Texas, you could run a Budweiser Clydesdale for office, and as long as it had the word "Republican" on it's campaign commercials it could pretty much count on winning.