She isn’t a Truther; she did give a poor interview; there was no conspiracy “get” her on Beck’s show (although Beck is in Perry’s pocket); except for shallow twits, giving good interviews is not the top qualification for being governor.
Although he is good on the life issue and guns (both words and deeds), Perry has betrayed us at almost every point on issues such as taxes, spending, border enforcement, and property rights, despite giving lots of good interviews filled with words conservatives want to hear. KBH is worse than Perry.
So, do I go with someone whose motor-mouth ran away with her in an interview and who generally is not mediagenic, but who probably means what she says about border enforcement, life, reducing spending, cutting taxes and restructuring the tax system, and defending the 2nd and 10th amendments, or do I go with someone who is a proven liar and betrayer on most of these issues? It doesn’t matter, because most people here are going to return to Perry like a dog returns to its vomit. Bear in mind that I say all of this as a serial Perry voter myself.
None of this affects you, but the next legislative session will probably have to deal with a $17 billion shortfall (thanks to Perry-enabled overspending). When our really smooth, sophisticated governor (whether Perry, KBH, or White) and the legislature are done raising fees and/or taxes and have resorted to the usual accounting tricks to close the gap, there will be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth by those on FR who are delighted that nobody bothered to woodshed Medina on how to deal with the media.
None of this affects you...
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You’re right of course. I don’t live in Texas. It doesn’t affect me, at least not directly. But I think that Medina’s claim to represent a “Tea Party” mentality is off base — and as a “Tea Party” member (so to speak) that does affect me.
Of course, Texans have every right to elect whom they will. NONE of their choices are, in my view, “good” choices. Perry has been, as you say, unacceptable on the border, on the Texas Supercorridor, on forced vaccinations for pre-teen girls, and the list goes on. KBH has been WORSE — a pro-abort RINO in Texas would be tantamount to surrendering to the Progressive overlords in Washington.
But Medina, with her refusal to disavow the “truthers” baloney, just knocked herself right out of the race. The question was a simple one — and she REFUSED to answer it in a forthright, absolute way. So, she’s NOT a “truther,” then WHY didn’t she simply say, “I’m NOT a truther, and there’s no room for a “truther” in my campaign?”
The undoing of the “Tea Party” movement may well be the fringe elements that hang onto issues that, weighed against all the other issues we must face and fight, really amount to little or nothing in terms of priorities. Those relative few “truthers” or “birthers” will be hung around the neck of the Tea Party movement, and the press and the public will cast us to the bottom of the sea.
Vote for whom you will, but a vote for Medina is very probably a vote for the Progressivist Democrat White, or perhaps the Progressivist RINO KBH. I had hoped we’d gotten past this stage after November 2008, but apparently, America needs a little more self-inflicted torture.