Is it hypocrisy: Leppert Amnesty Website

The Tom Leppert campaign, perhaps in response to the overwhelming success of the Roger Williams microsite http://www.theobamaeconomy.com/ with its slick video attacking Barack Obama, has introduced a No Amnesty website (which by the way doesn't have its own unique URL).

Problem is, Tom Leppert oversaw a sanctuary city and backed the creation of an Office of Immigration Affairs "dedicated to assimilating immigrants, legal and illegal, into the city of Dallas" as described by the Dallas Morning News.

We talked about this in our most recent post describing how Tom Leppert was liberal as a Mayor and is running as a conservative for the United States Senate.

It may seem we are coming down hard on Tom Leppert, but they really are self inflicted wounds. A record is something that can be pointed to, and what voters base their judgement on. Barack Obama, like most Democrats, ran as a moderate leaning fiscal conservative (unless he had a slip of the tongue), but has governed as the most liberal President in American History.

Tom Leppert governed as a Liberal and wants Republicans to believe he is a conservative. The question is will Republican Primary voters believe the past or the present/future?

More on Tom Leppert and his flip-flops

Found this from conservative blogger Matt Dowling's website

When Mayor Tom Leppert jumped into the senate race I was a little skeptical of his decision. Why would he join a crowded field with little name ID and no conservative base or credentials (at least that I know of)? So I decided to do a little research about the mayor to see if I could figure out the ace up his sleeve that was going to win over Texas conservatives. I wondered if he slained unions or defeated a tax increase against all odds. Instead, I discovered his past support for the Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual and Transgender community.

Now this picture is the end of the road for him. I’m not sure if Mayor Leppert’s record is common knowledge in Dallas, but it sure isn’t in the rest of Texas.

The social conservatives in the Republican Party are going to have a field day with this picture and his advocacy for gay rights in Dallas. He isn’t going to make it out of the gates in the senate race and I am still at a loss on why he even got in.

Not to mention that he has donated thousands of dollars to defeat one of Texas’ current U.S. senators, John Cornyn. He is going to get booed out of every Republican women’s club out there.

I don't know Matt Dowling, but somehow I think he is right.

Liberal or Conservative, The Mystery of Tom Leppert

If you paid any attention to the Kay Bailey/Rick Perry bloodbath of a primary, KBH was quickly labeled a Washington DC big spending liberal who was not a social conservative either. The Perry team did a fabulous job of putting a label on her that stuck like a cheap suit. Kay Bailout was the battle cry that sunk the USS Hutchison faster than the Titanic.

Well, seems we have a Kay clone (and well we are replacing Kay aren't we?) in Tom Leppert. One significant reason Mitt Romney got zero traction (not his Mormon issue) was because of his record of flip-flopping. While running for Senate, he famously said he was no Reagan/Bush Republican when trying to out-flank Ted Kennedy's liberalism. You Tube videos were widely circulated showing just how he tried to be more liberal than the liberal icon himself.

Tom Leppert, while not on video, has his own flip-flopping problem. As Mayor of Dallas, he voted to increase taxes on the citizens in his very first budget. That was then, now he is the fiscal hawk using the mantra that we cannot afford to raise taxes. We could then, but not now?  He pushed for and got passed the issue where the City of Dallas would build and own the new Convention Center hotel, a big government solution that only came about because he went after and got Obama Stimulas money.

And now he has sold out the gay community in Dallas. Apparently one of the first things he did was march in the Alan Ross Freedom Parade, aka the Dallas Gay Pride Parade, right after becoming Mayor. In fact, pictures are out there of him smiling while wearing a rainbow colored ribbon with the parade information on the meda. (Not to mention the fact that his hire for Chief of Staff was the openly gay former WFAA report Chris Heinbaugh) Problem is, you won't win a Republican Primary in Texas while being a gay pride parade marcher and supporter of gay marriage. What's one to do, oh yea, flip-flop on the issue and that's exactly what Tom Leppert has done.

One thing though, the gay community doesn't like this all-of-a-sudden change from the former Mayor. From the Dallas Voice "Later, of course, we discovered that the Tweet wasn’t the half of it: Leppert came out on his campaign website against both same-sex marriage and civil unions. (In other words, he believes your relationship is shit.)"

So is an elected official who was pro-tax, pro-big government, and pro-gay marriage now anti-tax, anti-big government, and anti-gay marriage going to survive the Republican Primary or should he simply run as a Democrat and not flip-flop? Texas GOP voters get to decide that, hmm.....