{"id":14521,"date":"2016-05-11T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2016-05-11T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:35:07","slug":"texas-gop-at-war-with-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14521","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP at war with itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you want to see a prime example of how badly fractured the Republican Party has become?<\/p>\n

Take a look at the fight for the Texas Republican Party chairmanship.<\/p>\n

This is an amazing development.<\/p>\n

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State GOP Chairman Tom Mechler has been accused of promoting a “disgusting homosexual agenda.” The accusation comes from supporters of Jared Woodfill, a Houston GOP activist who’s challenging Mechler for the party chairmanship.<\/p>\n

Why is this so amazing?<\/p>\n

Well, I happen to know Mechler. He hails from Armstrong County. He’s a Panhandle guy who is as conservative a politician as one can imagine. I consider Mechler to be a friend and, take my word for it, he doesn’t exactly line up with gay-rights activists’ world view.<\/p>\n

The Texas GOP\u00a0had the temerity to allow a gay and lesbian group to set up a booth at the upcoming state Republican convention. Does that constitute a “disgusting homosexual agenda”? I do not believe it does.<\/p>\n

What it constitutes is a recognition that Texas comprises a wide array of individuals who have differing orientations.<\/p>\n

That’s it.<\/p>\n

Mechler is putting some distance between himself and the gay-rights group. According to the Dallas Morning News: “Mechler said he had nothing\u00a0to do with the decision to allow the group, the Metroplex Republicans, to have a booth at the state GOP convention.”<\/p>\n

Just as the national Republican Party is fighting among itself, the Texas GOP is exposing deep fissures within its own ranks.<\/p>\n

The ultra-uber conservative wing of the Texas GOP is tossing out the “RINO” epithet at Mechler, who is the farthest thing possible from being a “Republican In Name Only.”<\/p>\n

Believe me when I say this: Tom Mechler is a true-blue Republican believer. He’s the real thing.<\/p>\n

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Do you want to see a prime example of how badly fractured the Republican Party has become? Take a look at the fight for the Texas Republican Party chairmanship. This is an amazing development. http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/2016\/05\/challenger-for-texas-gop-chairman-says-incumbent-promotes-disgusting-homosexual-agenda.html State GOP Chairman Tom Mechler has been accused of promoting a “disgusting homosexual agenda.” The accusation comes from supporters of … Continue reading Texas GOP at war with itself<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[2772,4622,4848],"class_list":["post-14521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-lgbt","tag-texas-gop","tag-tom-mechler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14525,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions\/14525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}