For the rest of us, we'll still be here fightting in every election to make the course corrections necessary to get America back on track.
Anyone else is not even a true American. Just a spoiled brat and coward who doesn't have the cajones to pick him/herself up and get back into the fight.
Muh fellah Amurricans -- I reproduce the speech patterns our media correlate with conservative thought -- hit looks like we ain't getting out of this here Union, what with secession not legal, way them educated fellers tell it.
Not legal? Rather a bold statement, I would say. Last time anyone attempted formal withdrawal from the United States, something like 125 years ago, the armaments of the United States blocked the path to independence. The Union endured. But that settled only the practical, not the theoretical, side of the question.
Enough said anyway about the Late Unpleasantness of 1861-65. What...
We have more than enough drugs in Texas, but not a lot CROSS Texas! Once you're in our State, you're many, many miles away from getting OUT of our State...
Texas fought and won wars wars before joining the union, and would do fine after secession. The US doesn't have the will to fight just wars, let alone fight for a state that doesn't want to be part of the union anymore, especially if it will hinder the flow of food stamps. By your equation, the redcoats should have defeated the revolutionaries only because they were better equipped. When in reality, their hearts just weren't in it (and ours were).
As for federal resources needed for securing Texas's boarders from Mexicans, I think they've already proven that isn't needed.
Cardinal Hume said there are three types of people. One of which were those who see all the problems but have none of the solutions. Bingo.
Better off sticking to a truncated imagination.
(And by the way, I reply to people in the manner they have replied to others.)
You can equate me to the loyalists back in 1776, but I would have been revolutionary in those days. That was an entirely different situation. If you're the type of person who can't see (or at least worry about) the unintended consequences of states seceding from the Union, then you're not a student of history.
What if Texas if the only state secede, and then Iran sends rockets to the Mexican drug cartels to lob over into Laredo and El Paso? Do you think the US should come to the defense of Texas? Since the US military would have pulled all their jets out of Texas, they have nothing left but ten-gallon hats and six-shooters to defend their new country.
Spoken like a true loyalist. I suppose if you can't have King George, you want "Lord and Savior" Obama to rule over you.