The last Presidential candidate who was "listening" to those ideas got marginalized and run out of the campaign on a rail, anniefey.
Steve, TOUCHE'...indeed he did. March 4th is coming up for Texas primaries...and as far as I know Dennis is still not on the ballot. As you probably know...the Texas DP removed him from the ballot because of refusing to sign the party loyalty oath "as written". They didn't like his rewritten version.
sad, sad, sad day for a lot of folks here.
Austin itself is not as conservative as most of the larger Texas cities. In fact, I don't think that it has much of a conservative base at all.
Just 40 miles to the SW of Austin is the Village near my home. Now this is conservatistville. Half of the county that I live in is Ron Pauls. I'm just a few miles out of his district. He does carry a strong following in my county, which could be expected.