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Bush 41 to endorse Hutchison [Texas Governor]
Dallas Morning News ^ | 1-20-10 | Wayne Slater

Posted on 01/20/2010 5:31:28 PM PST by deport

Look for Kay Bailey Hutchison to expand her circle of support from the Bushies in her bid to unseat Gov. Rick Perry. Hutchison this week added endorsements from James Baker, who served as secretary of state under George HW Bush. Earlier, Bush 43 Vice President Dick Cheney came to Texas to publicly endorse Hutchison. And the Republican senator has plenty of support from one-time aides to George W. Bush - informal advisers Karl Rove and Karen Hughes as well as former education secretary Margaret Spellings.

Now, comes Poppy Bush. A source close to the campaign confirms that Bush 41 himself will soon publicly endorse Hutchison. That pretty much leaves Bush 43, who says he's remaining neutral in the race.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bush; governor; hutchison; kbh; medina; rickperry; texas; txgov2010
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To: deport

No surprise here. Bush had problems defending himself BECAUSE he didn’t truly believe the conservative message—just like his dad. Why wouldn’t he go for Washington establishment?


41 posted on 01/20/2010 6:39:06 PM PST by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps.11:3)
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To: deport

Gee, now I’m even less inclined to see her as a viable candidate.


42 posted on 01/20/2010 6:39:38 PM PST by scottiemom ("As a Texas public school teacher, I would highly recommend private school")
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To: OldDeckHand

After Giving Fall Time Frame For Senate Resignation, Senior Senator Changes Mind Yet Again

TYLER—Hank Gilbert, Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor, Tuesday afternoon expressed little shock that U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison once again broke a promise to Texans.

“First she said she would resign in October or November. Now, she is saying she doesn’t know when or if she will resign. Texas voters could get more trustworthy answers from a Magic Eight Ball than from Senator Hutchison,” Gilbert said.

Gilbert also pointed out this wasn’t the first promise Hutchison had broken to Texas voters, and that it probably won’t be her last. Gilbert noted that Hutchison, when first elected to the United States Senate in 1993, promised to only serve two terms. Hutchison is presently in her third term in the U.S. Senate.

“First she said she’d serve two terms and leave the Senate. Now she is going back on her word about resigning. Is there any promise Kay Bailey Hutchison won’t break for the sake of personal convenience,” Gilbert asked.

“In my experience, your word should be your bond. Evidently Senator Hutchison has been in Washington so long that she doesn’t remember that a Texan’s word is a Texan’s bond,” Gilbert said.

http://hankgilbert.com/2009/10/hutchison-again-breaks-promises-to-texans/


43 posted on 01/20/2010 6:41:53 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: GWMcClintock

No surprise here. Bush had problems defending himself BECAUSE he didn’t truly believe the conservative message—just like his dad.


You do understand that this is Bush 41 [GWHB] not X43 [GWB] who has said he’ll remain neutral and not endorse either.


44 posted on 01/20/2010 6:42:20 PM PST by deport (41 DAYS UNTIL THE TEXAS PRIMARY....... MARCH 2, 2010)
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To: deport

I don’t trust Kay, and the endorsement of W certainly won’t change that, just the opposite. It’s the stamp of RINO.


45 posted on 01/20/2010 6:50:21 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: libh8er
Perry says whatever it takes.

Perry managed the Mondale campaign against Reagan in Texas in 84 and supported Gore in 88. He was a democrat long after the Reagan Revolution. He sold our toll roads to foreigners, tried to run a huge strip of highway through the state, to be built by a foreign company, and tried to force a vaccine on young girls, ALL COMPANIES INVOLVED HAVING HIRED HIS BUDDIES.

46 posted on 01/20/2010 7:01:51 PM PST by TWfromTEXAS (Life is the one choice that pro choicers will not support.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

and the endorsement of W certainly won’t change that,


W hasn’t endorsed and has said he’ll remain neutral.


47 posted on 01/20/2010 7:02:41 PM PST by deport (41 DAYS UNTIL THE TEXAS PRIMARY....... MARCH 2, 2010)
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To: deport

I read it incorrectly. But HW’s endorsement doesn’t sway me either. More RINOism.


48 posted on 01/20/2010 7:50:29 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: deport
Great, maybe it isn't too late for Kay to get Olympia Snow, Arlin Sphyncter, and Colin Powell to endorse her too.

I'm taking Perry re-election bets at 2:1 right now.

One more DC insider endorsement for KBH, it goes to 4:1.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

49 posted on 01/20/2010 8:13:10 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: deport

My God W . . . will you never learn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


50 posted on 01/20/2010 8:40:27 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: Professional Engineer

“Better yet, vote for Medina and put the rinos in the zoo now.”

Hell Yeah


51 posted on 01/20/2010 8:50:24 PM PST by roylll
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To: deport

Mr NWO aka Mr Executive Order 1989 - AWB aka Mr Read-My-Lips-No-New-Taxes? He’s the Kiss of Death in Texas


52 posted on 01/20/2010 8:52:42 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Something is seriously wrong when the .gov plans to treat citizens worse than they treat terrorists)
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To: deport

It just proves to me that she is not conservative, because we know Bush 41 is not. I am very disappointed in Cheney. I can’t understand why he would support her.


53 posted on 01/20/2010 8:58:23 PM PST by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: mathluv

Good grief. In this political environment if I’m Kay I don’t want a bunch of mushy moderate mainstream establishment Republicans (who are more part of the problem than they are the solution) giving me endorsements.

Choice #1: A mushy moderate Republican who has been governor for way too long that has done essentially nothing over the last decade to shrink the size and scope of the state government or to stop the federal government from continuing to unconstitutionally usurp Texas’ sovereignty and the unalienable rights of its people. Every four years he will talk like a conservative just long enough leading up to the election to fool just enough voters to keep his job... while behind the scenes governing like the establishment “big government” moderate that he is. It was almost comical during the debate the other night to hear him try and spin as an accomplishment eventually getting around to lowering the new business taxes that had not even existed until he created them.

Choice #2: A longtime Senator who never misses an opportunity to vote like the “big government” moderate that she is. Not once in my memory can I ever remember her answering in response to one of her votes something to the effect of “... and another reason I couldn’t vote for the bill is because I find no provisions in the United States Constitution authorizing the Congress of the United States of America to legislate in these matters...” While Choice #1 was busy doing nothing on the homefront to stop the federal government in its tracks, Choice #2 was busy playing noblewoman in Washington City as part of the problem herself rather than the solution. And last but not least... unlike Choice #1 she won’t even lie to us or placate us and pretend to be a small government conservative when the folks in Washington City aren’t looking.

Thank God we have Choice #3, a regular Texan with a real career in the private sector who doesn’t really care about playing politics who will use her time in office to begin the process of taking on and dismantling the progressive, socialist welfare states at both the federal and state levels that have been “progressively” ruining Texas and the United States of America for the last hundred years. A regular Texan who intends to fight against the status quo and has no intention of merely “managing” the state in its current form while enjoying the perks of nobility on the public dole.

Thank God we have Choice #3, who understands that 70% or more of what the federal government does - especially in regard to economics, energy policy, education, the environment, and health care - is in direct violation of the United States Constitution, and intends to use the all the tools and power of the sovereign state of Texas, including nullification and interposition, to defend the sovereignty of Texas and to protect the unalienable rights of its citizens from the federal government of the United States of America.

Thank God for Debra Medina.

If you’re happy with the direction the United States has been going politically for the last century... then by all means feel free to support Choice #1 or Choice #2, because neither of them have any real intention of doing anything substantive to reverse the direction we’ve been going. If you’re happy with the status quo then you have two essentially comparable choices in the form of Choice #1 and Choice #2 to pick from.

I, on the other hand, am no longer willing to just keep driving down that same old road to serfdom that the Democrats and (to a lesser extent) the mainstream Republicans like Choice #1 and Choice #2 have been leading us down for the last one-hundred and ten years.

I am ready to draw my line in the sand right now and declare “No More!” The federal government will never reform itself in line with its proper constitutional role because it is too addicted to its own power. Therefore, it is now time to begin the long overdue process of using the sovereign powers of the states to aggressively and unabashedly stand up to the federal government and reverse the destructive march to collective serfdom that we’ve been engaged in since the days of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Thank God we have someone like Debra Medina running for governor willing to lead us in this fight.


54 posted on 01/20/2010 10:06:53 PM PST by beanshirts (Vote Medina for Life, Liberty, and Property in Texas: http://www.medinafortexas.com/)
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To: mathluv

I’m voting for Medina, so is most in my family. She creamed Perry and Hutchinson in the debate.

I’m tired of RINOs governing my state.


55 posted on 01/20/2010 10:07:47 PM PST by 1scrappymom (Hook Em Horns!!)
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To: 1scrappymom

I am tired of Texas RINOs, too. However, I am more worried about The Senate seat currently occupied by Kay.

If she wins the primary, she’ll quit the Senate and John Sharp will eventually win the seat (D-Texas). If she loses and doesn’t quit. John Sharp (D-Texas) will campaign HARD against her not really wanting to stay in the Senate, and there is NO ONE ELSE well positioned to run for that seat in 2012.

It would suck for the Republicans to lose the 41st vote in Texas, after gaining it in Massachusetts...


56 posted on 01/20/2010 10:24:39 PM PST by tpmintx (Liberalism: Envy, backed by governmental authority. (I'm green; are you?))
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To: beanshirts

I won’t vote for a Libertarian, and that is what Medina is/has been. I can’t support Paul-bots. I think KBH would be bad, but a dim would be worse. I wish we had more choices, but Slick Rick will get my vote.


57 posted on 01/21/2010 3:04:48 AM PST by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: tpmintx

I am voting for Michael Williams.


58 posted on 01/21/2010 3:05:49 AM PST by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: libh8er

“Rick Perry is a solid conservative.”

Are you insane?


59 posted on 01/21/2010 5:40:46 AM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: deport

Egads! We send good people to DC and it’s an invasion of the body snatchers.


60 posted on 01/21/2010 7:26:39 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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