Conservative definition

From left to right, state Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, and former state Sen. David Sibley, R-Waco.From left to right, state Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, and former state Sen. David Sibley, R-Waco.

The pejorative was attached to anyone entering the sacred space of incumbent senators at the time — most of whom were Democrats.

The label was passed along from year to year as the Texas Senate became more conservative, and now some of the politicians who originally represented the leading edge of the conservative wave — like Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville — are themselves under attack for being too liberal.

The description attached to Nelson, R-Flower Mound, back in the 1990s said a lot about the makeup of the Legislature back then. Democrats were in charge, and almost every Republican elected to the Senate replaced a Democrat. From their own perspective, each defeated member of the club was being knocked off by, as they put it, “some crazy right-winger.” It was their name for any incoming Republican.

Nelson, for instance, replaced a rural Democrat named Bob Glasgow. Unlike some of her colleagues from back then, she is still considered a bona fide conservative today.

Only eight senators had more conservative records than Nelson in the 2013 session, according to an analysis by Mark P. Jones, chairman of the political science department at Rice University. Nelson is on the short list of senators who could lead the budget-writing Finance Committee — an idea floated by Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, who is in a runoff for lieutenant governor against the incumbent, David Dewhurst. Patrick, by the way, cast the Senate’s most conservative votes last year, according to Jones’ analysis.

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