Posted on 09/12/2006 7:06:23 AM PDT by laotzu
I'm just telling you what I have been hearing. I talk to a lot of people. And a lot of big Repub donors.
My prediction, Perry wins with a plurality in the upper 40's, with the 3 others equally sharing the rest.
Kinky will probably take away votes from Bell(the democrat) in such places as Travis county.
Kinky is another Lyndon Johnson....
Tell your "big Repub donors" friends to wean themselves off of the kool-aid.
The scary thing though is can the votes for Kinky ultimately result in Chris Bell winning? That is a situation I dread more than anything.
Perry is nto a conservative either, he is a rat with a R by his name.
See reply #20, poster child of the know nothings.
The Rats learned their lesson from Nader, they won't let that happen.
JMO, I don't think that will happen. Kinky will probably take away votes from Bell.
I know when I am being lied to by a crooked rino governor. So I will not vote for him.
So voting for a liberal will make you a Conservative?
And vote for the uber liberal Kinky. You must enjoy putting your hand on the stove over and over again.
Sorry, but this state is not doing "great". We are being overrun with illegals. They are like locusts. The bottom half of Texas is almost unimhabitable for an English speaking American. It is so bad hear in Houston that my sister's family, my dad and my family are all leaving within the year. Not leaving Texas, just moving more North. And it is still bad even up in the panhandle, but not quite as bad as the bottom half of Texas. We just need some relief from the surge of illegals. Crime is unreal. Between the MS13 and the Katrina folks you one would be nuts to leave his or her house without packing a sidearm.
Yes, its that bad. Perry is doing NOTHING about it. Folks are completley fed up. Even to the extent they will vote for somebody like Kinky who never had a whisper of a chance in the past.
No, he is the most conservative running. Sad but true.
Well, Perry's become an atypical politican (smoke & mirrors),the Demacrat runnin, is well, a Democrat(nuff said), and Kinky is a comedian. So, if ya want a good time in Texas, vote for Kinky, because their all a bunch of clowns anyway!
At any rate, if Kinky becomes the next gov - Louisiana's Blanco can move over. Texas will gain title to the Laughingstock Governor of the USA.
They are not "my repub donors friends".
I'm just telling you what I have been hearing. If you don't like it fine. Don't blame me, blame Perry.
LOL! Put your resume in to be a used car saleman.
I agree; the Kinkster voters I talk to are the kind that are normally reliable 'rat voters, but are disappointed in Bell and don't think he has a prayer, and looking to cast a protest vote.
Kinky will draw from both sides, but I don't think Bell will go anywhere - he's battling "One Trial-Lawyer Funded Grandma" for last place.
(At least, I hope so...)
Perry and the Republicans. While in office he held strong against an onslaught of Dem/media attacks (at the cost of his poll numbers) and pushed through redistricting, which looks increasingly likely to be the difference in preventing Nancy Pelosi from becoming Speaker and preventing endless impeachment-related investigations/distractions. Pushed through tort reform. Tightened restrictions on abortion. In the face of an economic downturn and multi-billion dollar deficit was able to get the legislature to pass a balanced budget without raising taxes (budget cuts instead.) The latest school finance reform isn't perfect but the courts were holding a gun to his head and he and the legislature worked out a reasonable compromise. Has for a couple of years now been calling for a cap on property tax appraisal increases, but the legislature has so far pretty much resisted this. Perry has pushed for streamlining and privatizing state gov't where possible, such as his Trans-Texas Corridor proposal, where instead of the gov't spending $6+ billion of tax dollars for needed road expansion in the I-35 corridor the state bidded out the contract to a toll firm that will pay the entire cost of construction and also pay the state $1.2 billion for the rights to operate the road (the state will still own it.) That's a $6 billion savings for taxpayers.
Those are real conservative accomplishments, completely ignored by the conservo-utopians here or those who don't want their pet middle-class welfare program cut.
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