Honestly, Texas Republicans should be proud if only 22 of their local conventions end up advocating for Texas secession.
A handful of Texas Republican district or county conventions in March passed resolutions calling for a vote on secession, paving the way for a potentially awkward debate at the state GOP conference in May.
A Nederland-based pro-independence activist group, the Texas Nationalist Movement, said at least 22 of the hundreds of conventions passed secession items.
This is the state party that's given us at least half of the most insane members of Congress this past decade, blessing America with everyone from Louie Gohmert to Steve Stockman to, gawd, take your pick. The state recently graced America with the Worst President Ever, and ambitiously seeks to top that with a little number called Ted Cruz, a man whose claim to fame is the theory that we don't need a functioning federal gubbermint at all—not if it's not doing what Ted Cruz wants it to do!
This is the state party that brought us the Jade Helm conspiracy theory, the notion that Barack Obama was sending American military troops to "take over" Texas and put it under ... American rule. State Republicans should be breathing a sigh of relief that two dozen-ish of their state conventions didn’t pass resolutions declaring that Texas was already an independent nation.
A party committee will consider the resolutions for debate on the floor of the state GOP convention in Dallas May 12-14. The volume of independence resolutions -- from which party leaders are quick to distance themselves -- increases the possibility they could be approved for discussion, though the notion of secession would certainly be shot down swiftly on the convention floor.
Still, the resolutions represent a significant milestone in the growth of a fringe movement in the Texas GOP, which drew attention last year when members of the party's State Republican Executive Committee pushed for a vote at a December meeting.
Glorious. Wonderful! Nothing could be more patriotic than having a convention floor debate on whether or not the state's Republicans really even still want to be Americans at all. Maybe as compromise they'll decide they won't have that debate, but Republicans will stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at their political events because the Texans among them may find it too divisive.
We'll certainly be keeping a close eye on this one. And it would be well worth getting Ted Cruz's opinion on whether Texas should remain a state. If you remember, Texas Gov. Rick Perry floated the idea himself once or twice, and he was considered pretty presidential himself back then.