By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...We would have been more impressed if she had challenged Ted Cruz, the junior U.S. Senator from Texas. This race against well-entrenched Democrat Vicente Gonzalez for the 34th Congressional seat is a bad fit for Mayra Flores.
She'll lose again in November.
But, boys, she's once more being Mayra, and, well, perhaps that's all she'll ever be. Something about her story tells me she would do well in Congress - but not as a Republican. Her personal history paints the very essence of a Democrat's portrait: Born poor, born in Mexico, re-born as an American citizen.
Still, there she is. Battling ghosts no one else sees. Well, maybe her insipid followers, all displaying their silliness on her Facebook page - the majority of them from elsewhere in the country. Perhaps they do love her, much like we loved Vietnamese who fought alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
How else to explain her crazy, often-ragged politics.
But we do like her, and a primary contest against the hated Ted Cruz would likely have had a Cinderella ending. What is she going to do after another loss to Gonzalez?
This from her Facebook page: [ "Our latest polling has us in a very tight, competitive congressional race against leftist Vicente Gonzalez. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez has voted more funding to go overseas than into his own district. He also voted to allow biological males in female sports and in girls' locker rooms. He voted to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country even after they committed felonies.
Vicente Gonzalez doesn't represent South Texas values." ]
Gonzalez is a 56-year-old graduate of Texas A&M School of Law, hardly the model for anything "leftist," although maybe it's just a throwaway word for her, or maybe a word some Republican handler from up north injected in her commentary.
Vicente Gonzalez is no leftist.
He's a middle-of-the-roader, the personification of an adept bureaucrat. He looks like the guy in the office who will fix colleague mistakes and get the job done. It's what voters want! He's that guy!!
Does Mayra, a healthcare graduate of South Texas Community College in McAllen, look at Vicente Gonzalez and see Che Guevara? Or perhaps Mario Savio, the agitator who led the 1960s student protests at UC-Berkeley? Those two definitely were leftists.
Vicente Gonzalez?
In a novel or Hollywood movie, he's the congressman who rose from middle school principal to tackle politics and clean-up Washington, D.C. Musical soundtrack by Horst Jankowski. Co-starring Eva Longoria as his wife.
Leftist?
Obscenity!!!...
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