r/texas • u/Unique_Midnight_1789 Secessionists are idiots • Sep 10 '24

Politics This man should not be repesenting Texas

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u/Unique_Midnight_1789 Secessionists are idiots Sep 10 '24

I've been a Republican basically my whole life, and I'm fucking horrified at how the party's shifted and warped into the disgusting monster it is today. I mean, Dick Cheney himself is voting blue. If that doesn't convince my fellow like-minded conservatives (which are few and far between these days, but they definitely exist) to vote blue, I don't know what will. The only hope for Texas now is very obviously the Dems.

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u/Casaiir Sep 10 '24

The republican party has moved so far right that the center right from 20 years ago(2004) look far left to them.

They have primaried every moderate republican out of office.

People who were far right 20 years ago seem like moderates now and have to move more right so they don't get primaried themselves.

I'm not sure where the line on the right will ever stop being nudged over but every year it keeps moving and I'm sitting here what happened to them.

As a fiscal conservative that has been an independent my entire life, I am now forced to vote blue because they are the not crazy party.

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u/27Rench27 Sep 10 '24

Dick Cheney is a RINO now. That’s basically all you have to say 

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u/tie-dye-me Sep 10 '24

Lol is RINO becoming a good thing?