Greg Abbott's Serape and Leticia's Coming to Lubbock

[TexasTowelie]

[font color=green]Note: I am able to see the picture because the Stop Tony Meow app didn't replace it with a kitteh picture since "Abbott" wasn't in the tag line.[/font]

By Carol Morgan

I was performing my obligatory morning reading and research and there it was...

A picture of Greg Abbott wrapped in a colorful traditional Mexican serape atop a headline that read: Abbott Sees Future Linked To Hispanic Voters.

The image caused me to laugh uncontrollably for about ten minutes. It looked contrived and disingenuous and Abbott appeared to be about as comfortable as a lady of the evening at a Sunday morning sermon.

When will the pandering stop? Abbott is high on rhetoric, but his history as Attorney General doesn’t match his magniloquence. Abbott can don all the serapes and sombreros he likes, toss some tortillas around with his “meet my Latina wife” meme, but it won’t erase his history of bad policies that directly affect the population he tries so hard to attract.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2014-03-30/greg-abbotts-serape-and-leticias-coming-lubbock .

[font color=green]I love Carol's statement near the end of her blog, "As of right now, there are no guarantees of a November victory in this area, but one thing I can predict is that on Wednesday, she (Leticia Van de Putte) will not say, 'Meet my white husband.'"[/font]

[yeoman6987]

1. Is this guy seriously the people of Texas want for their next Governor?

I can't believe they would take him over Wendy who is so accomplished. Sad.

[tanyev]

2. Greg Abbott, Pander Bear.

[Thinkingabout]

3. I guess he is going to go to speak to the close the border group wearing a

Serape and explaining how he is going to work to close the border. Talk about fake, it doesn't get much worse than this. Come on , Wendy, Texas needs you.

[hobbit709]

4. "Is that a Sears poncho or a real poncho?"

[Vogon_Glory]

6. As for me

I don't think he's all right and I'm not taken in.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Let's See How Well Greg Does If Patrick Wins The Run-off

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Let's see how well Greg does among Hispanics if Dan Patrick wins the Texas Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor. I suspect that Dan Patrick's dog-whistle politicking is going to count for a lot more than who Greg is married to among Hispanic voters.

Personally, I suspect that David Dewhurst smells like cooked goose. The days of sweet reason (If there ever were any since Reconstruction) are dead and gone among Texas Republican voters.

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Oh, and David. If the Texas GOP has proven uncomfortable for you and you reregister as a Democrat, I'm still not voting for you.