“Hutchison is one of the nation’s most powerful female Republican politicians, yet Palin chose Perry’s conservatism over Hutchison’s status as a potential Mama Grizzly.”
Hutchison’s status as a potential Mama Grizzly.”
Article lost me right there. Kay Bailey Hutchinson as a principaled conservative. Yeah. Right. Sure.
I keep reading these Perry articles in the hopes that I can find him to be a very conservative politicians. Palin’s endorsement carries weight with me, so I want to see if she endorsed him because he was a true conservative, or just the lesser of evils.
If Perry is a conservative in the Hutchinson mold, I don’t want anything to do with him. Why can’t we find out if this guy is actually conservative or not?
The best you can do, is either go to his record and judge for yourself, or rely on the endorsements or criticisms of others (i.e. Governor Palin, or Barbour, or a DeMint, or a Rush Limbaugh, etc).
That said, Hutchinson, is not, or was she ever, a conservative, she was, at best, a right of center moderate and for the most part somewhat of a party loyalist.
In regards to Palin, one of the reasons I respect her highly, is that she doesn't endorse moderates or "lesser of 2 evils" in campaigns, if the choice is 2 liberals, then she ignores the race, if its a case of a moderate or a liberal, she isn't going to bother, she supports conservatives, period. The fact that she endorsed Perry, and then again, recently, brought up his name (without being prompted or asked, totally on her own), makes is pretty clear she likes him. That does carry weight with me.