“In related news, I’m glad to see that Beck’s softball question to Medina has gotten him rehabilitated in the eyes of the Covenites, following his exile stemming from Palin’s inability to answer one of his softball questions.”
ROFLMAO! I can see your point, too, about why Hutchinson is your default. I guess my concern is that I see Hutchinson as a real killer for the conservative GOP in Texas. She’s a better pol than Perry in some ways, and I don’t think she’d have overreached with TTC, but if she’d wanted it, she’d have ACCOMPLISHED the TTC!
That said, I can’t fault your point about her exiting being a blessing in disguise. However, I always figured that if she won Perry would try to appoint himself to her seat. To me, the smarter play for him in this whole thing would have been to make her promise to appoint him to the Senate, then let her waltz in to the Governor’s non-mansion knowing he was her kingmaker, not the Bushies.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about the appointment angle. And it could be Perry - the whole go with the flow, work with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, atmosphere of the Senate might suit him.