"Ooooooh, I love to dance a little sidestep..."
(FWIW, Charles Durning looks more like KBH than Perry)
Posted on 09/21/2009 7:42:13 AM PDT by deport
Weekend highlights and the day ahead
Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison aren’t doing a very good job of hiding their personal displeasure that the other is running for governor.
A race between two well-funded — I mean, really well-funded — politicians for an office this big would be heated no matter the personal relationship of the candidates. And yet it can’t help matters that, if you listen closely, it’s clear that Perry and Hutchison each feel that the other has no business running. You could say that each has expressed a certain entitlement to the Republican nomination.
Hutchison’s case seems to be that she stepped aside for the good of the Republican Party in 2006 and that it’s now her turn. She told Fox Radio last week, “I’d hoped to run in 2006, but it seemed like that was premature. People wanted to give the governor a chance and wanted to have the party stand together.” She later added, “When I started running, then he jumped in after I started talking to people about running, and I just wasn’t going to be bullied out of running because I think we need a change.”
Perry, meanwhile, seems to think the contested primary is bad for the Republican Party. But he seems to think it is solely Hutchison’s obligation to stop it, not his. While in Washington on Friday and Saturday, Perry expressed amazement that Hutchison would put the party through a primary (his suggestion being that he has a right to run, but she doesn’t).
end snipsExcerpts other Texas Political news:
Todd Gillman’s blog for the Dallas Morning News:
“The idea that we are about to spend $50 million in a Republican primary is asinine,” Perry said, arguing there’s a limit to how much GOP donors will spend in any election year. “It is a fixed universe…. It is beyond me how anybody thinks that is good for the Republican Party, for conservative values that you want to see instilled in government. It’s not. It’s crazy.”
“Former state Comptroller John Sharp and Houston Mayor Bill White held forth in front of a wall decorated with red, white and blue bunting and a Barack Obama poster inscribed with the word ‘HOPE.’ Both men, angling for the U.S. Senate seat that Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison has said she’ll quit by December, talked about their personal stories and can-do abilities. But neither Democrat delved into specific stands on some of the hottest-button issues in Washington: health care reform, financial bailouts, economic stimulus, cap-and-trade environmental legislation. And neither mentioned the president.”
San Antonio Express-News
“Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is harnessing the powers of incumbency in Congress to wage a two-front campaign in the nation’s capital and in Texas to unseat Gov. Rick Perry, a fellow Republican.”
Burkablog
“Hutchison 40%, Perry 38%. This is a stunning development. Hutchison was down 46-36 in July and had a poor rollout of her campaign in August. What accounts for the turnaround?”
If Perry had behaved better in the past he wouldn’t have a credible primary opponent. The primaries keep politicians accountable.
...no, I'm not kidding.
I don’t like either one!!!
If elected he will lose that fear!!
Perry is a Geo. Bush moderate.
Or
Kay Bailey Hutchison our ever so silent representation in Washington on such matters as open borders, amnesty for millions of illegals and de-industrializing America.
I can't decide which candidate is worse.
Just like puttin a stetson on ol George Bush and takin a pic or two oh him out on the ranch mending bob-wire (barbed wire to you yanks)fence was some how gonna make him a true Texan.
Nope. Open borders, sanctuary cities, benefits for millions of illegals. Texans are concerned about these things and all of the above “politicians” have ignored us.
"Ooooooh, I love to dance a little sidestep..."
(FWIW, Charles Durning looks more like KBH than Perry)
One is marginally better than the other;neither raises much passion, although if you can raise enough money that doesn’t seem to matter.
Perry has an opponent not because he wasn't conservative enough but because he wasn't liberal enough. Texans are befuddled as to which RINO to support.
Perry, Hutchison annoy each other.
Thats funny....they both annoy me!
If you don’t like Perry or Hutchinson why don’t you check out Debra Medina’s website at http://medinafortexas.com/ and if you like what you see pass it on to your friends and relatives.
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I’ll vote Perry; he is the lesser of two evils.
Speaking of hair watch this 20 second video of Gov. Good Hair as he caresses an older gentlemen who was at a fundraiser Perry/Giuliani had.
http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/
No, Perry said the fence is a bad idea.
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