Scary, isn't it?

Let Texas secede from the union. That would be a good idea. I’m all for it. Then Sen. Ted Cruz could be elected president. Of Texas, of course. He’d win easily. With the support of his entourage of conservative Texans. They gave him an eight-minute standing ovation the other day. In Houston. For acting like a Texan. For leading the charge to shut down the U.S. government for two weeks. Cruz’s only regret.  The closure didn’t last long enough. Anyway, he thanked the Texans in the audience, mostly adoring women, for the thunderous ovation. Declaring he was happy to be in America again. Yes, in Texas. That the rest of America is no longer his kind of  America. Far too liberal. For putting a black man in the White House. For not thinking like patriotic racist Texans.  Scary, isn’t it? –Jim Broede