Somebody’s Huffing Cheap Paint Again
By Mitch Berg
Obama’s campaign – really, has his administration ever not been a campaign? – now claims Texas is winnable in 2012:
Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, speaking to big-money Lone Star State Democrats at closed-door meetings in Austin and Dallas in March, predicted Obama could make a “serious play” in the cornerstone of GOP presidential politics, according to people in attendance.
And Obama’s senior adviser David Plouffe has told fellow Democrats the nation’s second most populous state might add to his national “map” of contested states, arguing that the huge increase in voting-eligible Hispanic Texans in recent years could bring the state into play sooner than expected.
It’s a theory. Not a good one; Obama”ll need every penny he’s got in his war chest defending putative Dem strongholds in the next election. Allahpundit has more.
But just out of a sense of personal endzone-spiking, I gotta ask; where have we heard Obama’s people making absurd claims about their power to turn conservative states on with his smile? To take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Why, it was right here, folks, and you should know it!
May 13th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Hey, there’s probably enough graveyards there to at least make it a contest…..
May 13th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I say waste as many resources in Texas as possible. That way we can pick up PA, FL, VA and OH and reclaim IN. If Obama doesn’t hold those first four states he’s doomed. Don’t discourage insanity Mitch.
May 13th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
It can happen. He’s just got to get enough people to the polls in Juarez.
May 13th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Expect the population of Austin to double. Temporarily.
May 16th, 2011 at 6:30 am
After spending the weekend with some friends that were up from Houston, I have a comment. They are both in the oil industry and laughed when we talked about this. The rank and file oil field workers literally hate the democraps due to their stance on oil drilling. Although many of them are working fewer hours, at least they get to work, where their brothers and sisters in other Gulf States, do not. Ironically, this affects thousands of Hispanics and by and large, they feel the same way. My friends don’t think that TX is even remotely winnable for the dear leader.