Can Mexico put down the Texas Revolution?

Just kind of an idle thought. Is there a way for the Mexicans to win and defeat the rebels in the 1830s? What's the likely outcome?

easily. Have Santa Anna stay home and let his high priced generals lead the campaign. The Mexicans only lost one battle... the last one at San Jacinto... before that, they had mopped up all resistance they came across. Houston won the war by catching Santa Anna with a small part of his force and catching the President himself (and forced a peace treaty on him). With SA absent, none of that happens, and chances are that Houston will be crushed...

I STILL think the USa is going to get involved at some point. Mexico is never going to be strong enough to scare off the USA and if they come looking for land....

Yes. But stopping the Texas Revolution is the least of Mexico's problems. Mexico biggest weakness's were political instability, regionalism, and crippling debt. The only people that could rule mexico were arch caudillo's that could earn the recognition of the lesser one's and hence stay in power as a national figure. Of course the slightest sign of weakness would lead to them being challenged by a rival. Crippling quantities of debt insured that economically, mexico's hands were tide in terms of pursuing needed economic and political reforms. Mexico's economic and political instability, (and scarcely settled northern territories) are what made it such a tempting target for the US in the first place.

Looking back at 1836, it's surprising the Mexicans didn't crush the Texans.

They do it all the time in Vicky 2.