Posted on 12/26/2005 5:32:20 AM PST by Theodore R.
Strayhorn is saturating the airwaves during the Rush Limbaugh Show with her "tough Grandma" ads. However, I've seen nothing so far that suggests that she's as conservative as Perry.
For years I listened to Rush nearly every day and every hour that I could. Now I am increasingly finding it difficult to sit through even an hour a day. It is starting to sound repetitious, but after 15 years of listening, how could it be an ongoing fresh report? He has just about told me everything that he knows, and while that is a lot, it is hard to keep listening so regularly.
I'm not voting for Perry again. That's the one definite thing that I can say. He has no substance as a leader. He just plays politics. Katrina and Rita, to his good fortune, gave him free face time.
So will you just sit out the primary and the general election too? I understand that there is a young conservative running too, but he has no visibility. Too little funding in such a huge state! People can be expected to ratify the retention of Perry on the grounds that the alternatives are unacceptable. It could also be that Friedman will pull away some of the wavering GOP vote, but I don't see a committed Democrat going for Friedman, unless the popular Willie Nelson gets them all stirred up.
Or as Ed Sullivan would have said: "it's gonna be a really big sheewww....."
Strayhorn is a self promoting grandstander that has no true substance or agenda other that to feed her ego.
She's a loon, and I am being reserved in my language
It will be a signal of concern to the GOP, it seems to me, if the Gammage-Bell Democrat primary draws more voters to the primary polls than does the Perry-Strayhorn battle.
Agreed. I am fed up with this $5 brain with a $50 haircut mounted on it. To be honest I know of many who are talking about voting for Kinky Freidman.
She was the left wing nut mayor of Austin. Her father was a left wing head of the University of Texas Law School. Nuff said? She was a good State Comptroller until she decided she was governor material. From then on, she has used the job to attempt to circumvent anything Governor Perry does.
I don't think Texans have ever warmed up to Rick Perry, but it will be a sad day for us if Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn gets into the Governor's Mansion. (Yes, that would be McClellan, as in Scott McClellan, the President's press secretary.)
I agree.
I'll vote for the best candidate (who won't be Perry), if there is one, in the primary and the general election. Unfortunately, Perry is good-looking, and I think that he's still got wind in his sails from all of the hurricane interviews that he did. He benefits from the hurricanes, although I doubt that he deserves any credit for any action beyond using the state assets available in a timely fashion. Strayhorn looks like a grandma, and we love our grandmas, but not as governors. I'm not even sure that I'd vote for her. This election may require people to hold their noses as they vote.
Are the potential Friedman voters just vibrant fans of his key supporter, Willie Nelson?
So who are you going to vote for? Perry may be an airhead, an accidental governor who just happened to be standing in the right place when Bush left for D.C., but at least he's our airhead. Strayhorn isn't a republican.
There's a reason big democratic donors are lining up behind her...
I don't think that many Democrats will vote for Friedman unless there is the total collapse of the Democrat gubernatorial nominee in the October 2006 polls. I think Friedman will do better among "moderate Republicans" than he will Democrats.
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