Posted on 06/17/2005 11:04:01 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in a stunning surprise Friday dropped her possible challenge to Gov. Rick Perry in next year's Republican primary and announced she will seek re-election.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
So she won't run for President. No senator has been elected President since Kennedy in 1960.
This makes things far less complicated in Texas.
Very. very good news.
It is good news, and it came sooner than I expected.
Don't you come home, Kay Bailey, don't you come home.
Hutchison won't run for Texas governor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425374/posts
She was probably promised a plum leadership position or committee chairmanship in exchange for sticking around.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Ronald Reagan style Republican but I wouldn't vote for Rick Perry if his only opponent was Howard Dean. He has been such a disappointment and is such an idiot. He is a disgrace to his Alma Mater, the great Texas A&M. His first act of stupidy was when he was first in office, vetoing 72 bills in one swipe. "Oh look at me. I'm the big-bad governor". His credibility just went downhill from there; one gaffe after another. Geeeesh. What a loser.
Is there a link for the back story on this? I've never understood the spat between these two. It doesn't seem to be just a liberal/conservative problem. Is it just her position on abortion?
GOOD!
This is a shame in way. It would have been good for the party to beat one of the last bastions of moderate Republicanism in Texas. I sincerely doubt that Commissioner Carol Keeton Strayhorn's candidacy will get off the ground.
I don't understand. What's wrong with vetoing 72 bills? I haven't been delighted with Parry all the time, but in 2003 we got a balanced budget with no new taxes. (This year, eh...) But we did get parental consent and a DOMA constitutional referendum. He hasn't been perfect, but a darn sight better than Senator Hutchison would have been.
You're not very observant. He forced the Democrats to return to Austin three times, until he got a redistricted state map that put six additional GOP members in the House last year.
Even Bush couldn't and wouldn't have done that.
You are correct. See the link to an early article
"GOP casts doubt on Hutchison's run for governor"
Senior Bush aides have concluded that Hutchison likely won't take on Perry in the (March) GOP primary....McConnell, from Kentucky, said Hutchison will be offered the Senate Republican Conference chair when Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee retires.
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14552907&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475626&rfi=
I'm with you. I'm reminded of Clemenza's lines in The Godfather:
MICHAEL
How bad do you think it's gonna be?
CLEMENZA
Pretty g*****n bad. Probably all the other Families will line up against us. That's alright --
this thing's gotta happen every five years or so -- ten years -- helps to get rid of the bad
blood. Been ten years since the last one.
Grazia, Lucia.
GRAZIE, Lucia!
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