(Latest Rasmussen Poll:)Election 2010: Texas Republican Primary for Governor

Rasmussen Reports ^ | February 24, 2010

[SwinneySwitch]

Texas GOP Primary: Perry 48%, Hutchison 27%, Medina 16%

Just days before Texas Republicans pick their nominee for governor, incumbent Rick Perry has his biggest lead yet.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Republican Primary voters finds Perry leading Senate Kay Bailey Hutchison 48% to 27%, with Tea Party activist Debra Medina earning 16% of the vote. Nine percent (9%) of Texas GOP voters remain undecided.

[meandog]

Are not the Bushes backing Kay Bailey?

[Marty62]

YES..meaningless to Tx Repubs.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Perry should be able to pick up enough of those undecideds to push this across. Also, I don’t think medina will get that 16%.

[PLD]

No this Bush supporter is not voting for Kay Bailey,I don't think many will since we know she is a RINO and will take us down the Obama trail if she became Governor..I voted by mail and did not vote for any of the RINOS of Texas..

I really hope the Liberal Obama butt kisser Chet Edwards loses this time..His seat needs to be filled by someone that really loves Texas and the people in it..

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Bush 41 is, but 43 has stayed out of this.

[SwinneySwitch]

President George H.W. & Barbara Bush and Dick Cheney have.

[faucetman]

There are no perfect candidates, I’m glad the best one of these 3 is leading

[TexasCajun]

Regarding the Texas Primary.

I'm getting tons of mail from all the "Conservative" Republican candidates on the ballot.

Other than some of the higher profile positions, I have no idea who the best candidates for judges and other positions are.

I wish someone was running against Pete Olson for US-22, he's been a big disappointment. Seems he prefers to sit in the back of the class to avoid being noticed or called upon.

The only time I see him when the local news searches him out for comment on NASA.

I've also received endorsement letters from:

Conservative Republicans of Harris County

United Republicans of Harris County

Texas Conservative Review

..and I've probably thrown some others away.

So, which of the endorsement groups should I consider?

[TomGuy]

I guess this means Kay Bailey won’t resign her Senate seat, even though she set the date 3 different times (2 of which have already passed).

If you can’t trust her word on some things, how can you trust her on others?

[Catsrus]

I wouldn’t consider endorsements from anyone. Listening to Mark’s show last night, he made this point. People just need to vote for who they want, and that should be the best candidate running. Meaning, of course, the most conservative.

[TexasCajun]

Any suggestions regarding unknown Texas primary candidates?

[chuckles]

Yeah, I held my nose and voted for Perry, but I gota tell you it was the hardest vote I've cast in a while, maybe my life. I just don't like or trust the guy. I started to think about “If you want it done right, do it yourself” but I'm sure it would have been a waste of time and money to even attempt such a thing. Out of all the bright, dedicated people in Texas, I refuse to believe this is the best we could do. These political machines will chew you up and spit you out. I was hoping for Medina, but I just couldn't pull the trigger. Right now, we can't gamble on a loose cannon rolling around the deck. The legislature would have most likely rolled her like a drunk in the alley. She would have been treated like a 3d party candidate. But Perry and Kay B. make me barf.

[Jedidah]

Yes, the Bushes are backing KayBailey. So are a lot of other good folks, and I understand why.

Perry has character problems, big ones. He’s going to win, and in the sordid field, he’s actually probably the best candidate.

I think I’ll vote against him next week anyway.

He’s just done so much backstabbing, pocket-stuffing, unethical, sold-out stuff that many of us find him reprehensible.

The Bushes know that. Whatever your gripes with the Bushes about issues, they are good people. And they know Rick Perry. And they’re not backing him this time.

I’ll vote for Perry in November just because we can’t have Democrats controlling the state in a redistricting year, but I’m having a hard time with it.

One nice thing about electing KayBailey as governor: it would get her out of the Senate and maybe put Michael Williams there.

[Jedidah]

Chuckles, you and I are rowing the same boat. My thoughts exactly.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Are not the Bushes backing Kay Bailey?

Just my opinion, but if one were to dig deep enough, they would probably find a deal made when she wanted to run for governor in 2006.

I think the story is that the Bush administration talked her out of it to keep her in the Senate. My sense is the Bush(41), Cheney, James Baker etc. endorsements are political payback.

Most conservatives are unswayed.

[patriot08]

For God's sake, has anybody really looked into Debra Medina's platform- her background? Has this woman even been vetted?

Are we so desperate to clean house of 'career politicians' that we jump on the bandwagon of an unknown ex-nurse with zero experience, questionable judgement and loyalties and who worked on the RON PAUL presidential campaign???

Before we boot Rick Perry out, we'd better take a good long look at the fact that although Perry has been governor since 2000, Texas is doing better than almost any other state in the union- and be D*MN sure we know just what we are replacing him with.!

She wants legalized drugs.

She backs gay marriage.

.

She has not spoken to her elderly parents for YEARS. They had to find out she was runing for governor of Texas by reading the newspaper!

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/medina-hailing-from-beeville-learned-political-skills-on-229907.html?srcTrk=RTR_95609

What does this say about this woman's character?

And rumors are begining to surface about husband Noe's past associations.

Take a look at some of the statements she has made: "It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?’

"Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?”

"Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.”

"I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.” (Obummer, is that you?)

I don't believe for one minute Medina's propaganda about wanting to strengthen the border!

La Raza probably has her in their back pocket!

At 3:30 on this video Medina says, 'Why were there no police killed on 9 11?' http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/politics&id=7274692

This idea that Beck (or anybody else) sabotaged Medina is absurd. If you can’t answer “did the govt have anything to do with the 9/11 attacks?” you're not be fit to run for dogcatcher.

Glenn Beck has once again helped the tea-party stay in the Republican mainstreamby by weeding out dangerous fringe thinkers like Medina.

Medina is NOT representative of the Tea Party movement. She USED them- latched herself on to them. She’s a hard core Libertarian who has realized that the Libertarian Party will never win anything and that the only possible way to get herself into office is to do what Ron Paul did and wrap herself in the Republican cloak in hopes that it will fool enough of the voters enough of the time. Thank God Glen Beck outed her in time.

Retrieve your sombrero from the ring and go home Senora Medina. You're Texas toast. .

REMEMBER THIS, TEXANS:

Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress

“One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422

.

[chuckles]

I agree with everything you posted in #17, but you seem to have left out Perry's warts and sores. In times like these we shouldn't have to hold our nose to vote. I don't want the Texas corridor and many of Perry's associations are smelly also. Perry, IMHO, hasn't done or said a damn thing until he got within 1 year or so of the primary. He has some window dressing under his belt, but it wasn’t until Kay threw in that he started talking big.

[SwinneySwitch]

Free Voters Guide

http://www.freevotersguide.com

[BrewingFrog]

Pete Olson has and is doing a fine job.

If you are going to base your opinions of Texas Republicans on the amount of coverage the “local TV” people give them, well, they’ll all look pretty bad to you.

NASA and BAE Systems are simply political payback. How dare we un-elect a sorry rat and elect (any) Republican. The Messiah is showing us what happens to people who don’t vote the way they should...