Yesterday I made some comments on the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas page to the effect that the Texas Democratic Party has a serious messaging problem and that their only chance of survival in this state is to appeal to this new generation of independent moderates that are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I was told the same tired old line, that they just need to appeal to their base by holding firm on far left-leaning liberal policies. Ironically, the Tea Party makes the same argument, that their problem in the last two presidential elections was that they werent conservative enough. Both are wrong. There is no liberal base in Texas. The Texas Democratic party needs to stop pretending this is a swing state and recognize that the only brand of democrat that can be successful here on the state level is a moderate one with a few conservative-leaning positions. After making this argument, I was told by several commenters that I probably wasnt gong to fit in with the Democratic party. One even said, I think your party is the Libertarians. If the Texas Democratic leadership doesnt get out of their echo chamber of idiocy and take an objective look at the reality of Texas politics, theyll spend another 20 years in the desert. When you lose by 20 points, you should probably consider the possibiliy that your strategy sucks. This memo from a Davis consultant, who clearly was the only one with any sense of reality, spells out exactly why Im right...and exactly how tone deaf the people running her campaign really were. The best line was there has been a decision to run Wendy not as a moderate Texan who could plausibly beat Greg Abbott, but rather as a national democrat, appealing to liberal donors in the mistaken belief that there is a hidden liberal base in Texas that will turn out to vote if they have a liberal candidate to support. Obviously, whoever made that decision was dead wrong...
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:37:57 +0000
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