Texas Gov. Candidate Medina Talks Weapons, Secession, Bloody War, Decisive & Fatal

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Run time: 07:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qO4K_wmJ94   Posted on YouTube: August 31, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 31, 2009 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 2491

 

Texas Governor candidate Debra Medina incites a crowd in Austin using her 'Don't Tread on Me' snake analogies sprinkled with arguments for sovereignty, secession and the usual 'don't touch our guns' mantra. She equates a snake as a symbol of Texas - that it usually keeps its weapons hidden but 'we are showing those weapons today'. She talks how just as a snake has weapons which can strike out, the wounds Texans can inflict will be 'decisive and fatal'. 'We don't wound until we give notice - and we are giving notice today.'

Medina ends her speech with 'Texas will do as Texas decides'

Hard to summarize this 'candidate' in a short summary. See it for yourself.

[tomm2thumbs]

1. I dunno - it kinda makes the United States look like it went on a diet

If Texas secedes as Medina is suggesting



Not sure it would make a very pretty keychain, but I bet it could be worked into a bottle opener or something, if you catch the lip of the bottlecap on the panhandle part and pull up.

[Historic NY]

2. Should they begin pulling the Federals out now & closing bases?

[Enthusiast]

6. Now that is one excellent idea!

The suggestion alone could wake people up.

[GivePeaceAchance]

3. I just shouldn't watch these clips anymore. They'll do their thing and we have to do ours repair...

their damage and move forward. But leaving the good Democratic folks of TX behind is probably not the best option as tempting as the right make it, united is the best way out of the hard times as difficult as they might get to achieve. The right are more than happy to be union members when the vaccine shots (as controversial as they are) are needed to save their lives. There are things that are needed that are best met as united collection of states.

[indimuse]

4. ..

wonder if the entire RW party would fit in the state of Texass...if so...se la vie!

[Creationismsucks]

5. Texas

what a bunch of whining, entitled babies.

[Ishoutandscream2]

7. Oh, really?

Broadbrush much?

[Creationismsucks]

9. Fair criticism

I hereby delete and retract!!

oops, can't delete it now. But I ought not to have said it; you're quite right.

[dbmk]

8. Checking her website

..I am forced to think Texan Palin. Dunno how good her shot at it is.

[Buzz Clik]

11. Palin's first splash was pure charisma. She charmed the based and the peed themselves with glee.

This woman, however, is dullsville.

[dbmk]

16. True

The platform seems the same though.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Texas is pretty conservative, but she is way out of the mainstream.

Keep in mind that as rightwing as GWB was, there was a noisy (and tiny) minority of Texans who were continually screaming that he wasn't conservative enough or bold enough or tough enough on illegal immigration.

She will be written off as just another case.

[scentopine]

12. Another texas dumb-ass, living in fear with guns and bibles

Unfortunately the right-wing is reaching new levels of extremism. This is sucking along the rest of the country. We can mock them all we want, but their strategy is very effective. Democrats appear weak and unprincipled and are always on the defense ready to bargain away their constituents. Even when we hold clear majority, we still give everything away in order to keep the right wing happy.

The right wing will keep supporting whack jobs like this. That's how the Bush years will keep going on and on and on even when a democrat is elected.

It is brilliant and it works.

[stubtoe]

13. The election of a black man to the presidency is bringing out ALLLLL the nutjobs.

This sounds like something out of the militias.

[jamesatemple]

14. My, how things have changed in Texas during my lifetime!

As a boy growing up in the Texas black land, I thought "damn yankee" was one word. My grandfather was born in Virginia after the Civil War and, I suppose, never learned of the great number of his "yankee" kin folks that had fought and died fighting for the preservation of the Union. Ignorance, especially willful ignorance, often has the result of an errant lifetime philosophy. I truly doubt that Grandpa knew that the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, subsequent to his term in that office, railed against the idea of Texas seceding from the Union.

And, Grandpa would kick your ass for mentioning the word "republican" at the supper table. If he could be resurrected, if he could hear the rhetoric of current Texas politicians, I suspect that he would confuse the two parties if no one made him aware of which party each speaker represented. I have no doubt that he would find it incredible that Texas was a bastion of the Republican Party. Having survived the Great Depression, he would not tolerate a discussion of the merits, if any, of Conservatism.

Hopefully, this, too, shall pass. With liberal voices being raised in a smattering of venues, a small number of native-born Texans are responding to the clarion call of "reason". Aided by the huge number of "snow birds" from the great Northland and a massive number of immigrants from the Latino countries, the iron grip of modern Republicanism may be loosening...but not nearly enough and not nearly fast enough for this old man.

Don't despair of Texas, friends. Through the clamor and noise of the Conservatives, you can still hear the admonitions of Jim Hightower, the crew at The Texas Observer, the late, great Molly Ivins, et al. It will take a while (at 68 years old, I probably won't live to see it), but sanity will come back to the good folks living in this grand State.

[ScottLand]

15. She's going to get a lot of

people in trouble. Lesser minds that don't know she's not really serious about this.

[shagsak]

17. I'm impressed she was able to draw so many

She must have advertised heavily.

Most of her followers can't read.

[avebury]

18. She sure is short sighted

If Texas secedes:
1. No federal tax dollars
2. Military bases could be closed
3. Texas is a non personal income tax state
4. Medina proposed doing away with property tax

Big Question - Just how does she propose that the country of Texas will support itself?

Benefits of Texas seceding:
1. We can finally have decent text books
2. Number of Republicans in Washington drops
3. More federal tax dollars for the rest of us
4. We get rid of a whinny bunch of people

I just don't see it as a big loss if Texas leaves.

[fubarsnafu]

19. I hope they do 'succeed'

Never liked Texas anyway, since Bushie came from there. Great people Texans, but not in who they elect. Then again, they prob STOLE their positions too. Don't forget - DIEBOLD is still alive and well and we'd do well watching every election here on out.

[windoe]

20. The lone star country,

with Mexican legalized pot on one side, libruls running rampant in the US... how long before their guns and beer run out?