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Posted on 01/15/2010 12:46:05 PM PST by Patriot1259
The positioning of the candidates on the stage only served to illustrate the climate of and differences between the candidates themselves. Medina was flanked on either side by the more well-known Texas stars of the Republican Party, Hutchison and Perry. Medina looked surrounded. Medina looked out-gunned. Before the night was over Hutchison and Perry should have been ducking for cover, unfortunately I don’t think either of their egos would ever allow them to admit that they got their political backsides stomped by a registered nurse from Wharton, but that is exactly what they got.
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Does the following remind you of a Paul poll vote from the last presidential election?
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1895191.html
Kay Bailey Hutchison (15%, 54 votes)
Debra Medina (69%, 241 votes)
Rick Perry (10%, 36 votes)
No clear winner (6%, 20 votes)
Total votes: 351
Gov. Rick Perry (4 Votes, 4%)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (3 Votes, 3%)
Debra Medina (92 Votes, 93%)
Al Gore and John Kerry claimed victory in a couple of fairly recent Presidential elections too.
Neither of them ever sat in the big chair though.
This story is probably closer to the truth...
http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/15/debate-not-exactly-game-changer/#ixzz0ciau855J
Not Exactly a Game-Changer
In the first debate of this political season, Gov. Rick Perry didn’t fall on his face. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison didn’t, either. Each worked in the kinds of lines that please supporters without creating many new ones, but neither landed a knockout punch. For a politician with a reputation to protect, that’s the description of a win.
If the third candidate on the Denton stage didn’t win some new fans, or votes, Debra Medina at least held her own in her first and perhaps only debate with the two Republican heavyweights. Medina cast Hutchison and Perry as insiders in federal and state governments that aren’t working right for average Texans, touted her proposal for ending property and business margin taxes (to be replaced by higher sales taxes she thinks would be more fair), blasted their immigration policies. We even learned she doesn’t pack a gun when she’s in the grocery store, where it’s illegal.
Each of the three claimed victory. The real winner, probably, was Medina, who doesn’t have the money to advertise statewide or to travel as broadly and quickly as the other two Republicans in the race. Thursday night was her best chance yet to get in front of voters, and she hung in with the two more experienced professional pols.
She, like Hutchison, directed her fire at Perry, who was forced to defend himself on eminent domain and transportation, on budgets and taxes, and even on the economy he’s been touting as his biggest achievement as the state’s top elected official since 2000.
Perry didn’t shoot much at Medina, but goaded Hutchison about her votes for rising federal spending and deficits, for her support for abortion rights secured by the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, and for being a creature of Washington (an attack echoed in an ad campaign he started on the day of the debates).
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/15/debate-not-exactly-game-changer/#ixzz0ciau855J
Medina will be lucky to get 10% of the vote....she can declare herself Jesus Christ superstar....but the facts remain except for a small minority no one cares what she declares!
This guy, John Winder, is full of it!
I watched the debate Thursday night on PBS. Medina made a couple of points, but mostly she just kept saying things she had memorized instead of answering the questions directly. Medina is a lightweight with only a couple of good ideas.
Hutchison showed herself to be a typical D.C. harpy, as she managed to accuse and attack Perry in almost every one of her answers,and accused him of lieing several times. She tried hard to justify her votes for cloture on the various big Obama bills that have been pushed this past year, in spite of the fact that she had promised beforehand that she would vote against the bills.
When I see something this stupid it makes me wonder if the author is wrong about everything else they wrote too.
Medina was also wrong about gun registration in Texas and the 10 Amendment's effect on State gun laws. She did have a couple of halfwit Ron Paul type supporters on the live thread that didn't help her a bit though.
Thanks, I was wondering about that too, and if I’d forgotten some tiny bit of the law...
I wasn’t following the Concealed carry issue that closely when they were talking about it. I did hear Medina say she didn’t carry into a grocery store but that was about all I caught.
YAWN!
Sounds a lot like ol'Kinky! Winning before we vote.
Yeah, it does.
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