Finishing up this week’s run of the “The Daily Show” Thursday in Austin, Texas, host Jon Stewart wasn’t going to let his liberal audience kid themselves about efforts to turn the state blue.
Stewart shook his head at clips of hopeful Democrats looking to flip the Lone Star state.
“Really? Texas is goin’ blue? Listen to me: Texas has been a conservative state since dinosaurs roamed it 6,000 years ago,” he said. “At least, that date is according to the Texas state high school textbooks.”
After a montage of coverage showing Republicans’ massive leads on the local and state level, Stewart sighed. “You poor bastards.”
“Democrats in Texas are like the drunk guy at the bar who won’t stop hittin’ on a girl even though he knows she’s a lesbian,” Stewart joked.
“No dude, trust me, I can flip her,” he said with a mock drawl. “I just need time.”
Watch the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
No battle is hopeless.
For comedic value?
Jon can have his fun.
But the demographic is already in place to flip the state purple at the least.
The hurdle is overcoming the Tom Delay-effected gerrymandering-- and the poll-tax-like Voter ID laws-- to allow those votes to show the will of those who will cast them.
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Jon is of course completely neglecting the fact that we had a Democratic governor until 1994 and Democratic Lt. Governor until 1998. Not to mention the fact that Texas sent the best liberal president to Washington, LBJ. Texas was blue, not even that long ago. This deep deep red thing is only about 20 years old. And the rapidly growing hispanic population is making us bluer and bluer ever single day.
I agree with Stewart 99% of the time, but he is dead wrong here. Spoken like someone who has never spent any time in Texas, and is completely unfamiliar with the politics here.
Right. We shouldn’t even try because it’s all hopeless. Everything is hopeless. Like that stupid story “The Little Engine That Could”
Stewart is OK for the most part but the message he is sending here (even though it’s dressed up as humor) is that people should just give up before they start. What an awful sentiment to convey to a large audience.
While hilarious, Jon is no strategist. Texas is red but will not be forever and Dems need to start early chipping away at the redness.