Well, if you can't protest the anti-Americanism of them politicians in Washington by advocating treason, you probably aren't intellectually flexible enough to be governor of Texas.

While we're all here let's look at the paperwork. The United States of America and the Republic of Texas united in 1845 by Texas becoming a U.S. state. The Ordinance of Annexation of 4 July 1845 doesn't have anything to say about secession. It does say that Texas can divide itself into a State of Texas plus four other states if the other states can meet the US requirements for statehood.

Fast forward to 1861, and Texas attempted to leave the US by passing An Ordinance:To dissolve the union between the State of Texas and the other Stat s, united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America" on 1 February 1861. This ordinance did not claim any right of succession; all it did was repeal the Ordinance of Annexation of 4 July 1845.

After the end of the U.S. Civil War An Ordinance, Declaring the Ordinance of Secession Null and Void was passed on 15 March 2006, which (you guessed it) repealed the Ordinance of Secession of 1 February 1861. This ordinance is specific – "the right heretofore claimed by the State of Texas to secede from the Union, is hereby distinctly renounced."
- Phil(from Deep in the Heart of Texas)