Posted on 01/24/2010 3:20:43 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
So far there are no signs that true reform is taking place in the GOP. The people in control of the party during the worst two consecutive election cycle defeats in GOP history are still in control of the leadership nationally. This is why a Debra Medina victory is a tremendous opportunity to return to the original constitutionally limited government given us by the founders. The obvious question is why is it that important for Medina to win? The answer is because Texas is that important. Texas is the flagship state of the Republican Party. The Texas GOP is the biggest in the Nation.
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I just hope there’s a good Lt. Governor when Perry finally pulls a Blago.
Got an inside track, do you? That’s what the Coakley supporters thought a month before the Senator lost her seat.
If THAT race could be turned on its head, why in the world can’t a long seated governor in Texas lose his race?
Btw, if you don’t mind my asking, are you working to relect Perry or just sharing your opinion?
I don’t understand why her polling is encouraging her.
It may not be encouraging her that much but never forget Perry doesn’t exactly win by decisive numbers when confronted with a hotly contested race. Two examples:
1998 race for LtGov, Perry won over Sharp by 68,000 votes when GW Bush won the Governorship by over 1.4 million votes. In 2006 in a wide open race he won with 39% of the vote. If he gets into a runoff he may be retired back to Paint Creek and the farm.
Where in the world do you get she’s an “open border” candidate? She’s the only one that’s gone around to the border counties asking the local law enforcement what they need to stop border crossing. You think “Hair Perry” with his Trans TX Corridor open borders is a better solution? Keep your head in the sand and don’t vote then since you might as well be voting for Obama to be Gov of TX.
According the last Russmussen poll Medina was at 12% with some 12% undecided. I don’t see her getting into Perry’s/Hutchison’s numbers that much. JMO and we’ll know for sure in 37 days.
I’m all for a north/south superhighway from mexico to canada.
Hwy 83 running from Brownsville to Manitoba would be perfect,imo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_83_map.png
Medina is interviewing for a job as a very high level executive.
Please list her credentials. Does she have an MBA? What previous experience does she have as a CEO? In what condition were the companies she has headed when she started and when she left? Has she ever had to forgo her own salary to make payroll at her own business?
Also keep in mind she is applying to replace an existing executive that has a track record so we really need to hear about her and not badmouthing of anyone else.
Finally all Medina supporters are “references” on her resume so it would do them well not to piss off the interviewers as many on FR have already done so far. One has been banned for telling FReepers that they were too stupid to understand Ron Paul. Good job there!
That sounds like the poll that was taken right after her debate when she had no exposure by the media and was completely off the radar screen of Texas voters.
Since then she has been featured in some media coverage and I also notice her donations have gone from almost nothing to around 400 grand, bless her heart.
So....I think we will all be surprised at her next poll numbers after the debate. Texans may decided to emulate Mass. and “beat the machine.”
I haven’t seen the lastest funding numbers but I knew she had gotten upwards of $200,000 the last I saw/heard. Turmoil is out there amongst the voters no doubt but I just don’t see the Perry/Hutchison supporters abandoning ship in that large of numbers. Heck Paul the well know Libertarian in all his years here in Texas managed less than 5% or around 66,000 votes in the GOP Presidential Primary in 08.
If turnout skyrockets then who knows what will happen and I think that would help Medina and hurt Perry the most. If it stays under or around 700,000 voters I think she’ll come in 3rd. jmo which is very unscientific for sure.
She has a web site and you can see videos of her on You tube...I don’t have to voet in your state but she didn’t seem to impress me...just the opposite. But I guess the idea has been to support those with conservative values and she does fit that bill.
I don’t know anymore..I don’t like the idea of people without any political experience beginning to run just because they are conservative and go to Tea Parties. medina’s a nurse and I could see no expeerience in poloitics to speak of.
I just think we need to be careful...these times are not the norm in our nation and I don’t want another group of unexperianced dunderheads running our gov. like Bo’s ...just because they like politics is no reason to become a canidate..
Medina is definitely what we need right now. In talking to people from all over Texas who assumed just a few weeks ago that they’d be voting for Perry or KBH I’ve met many who - once they heard about Debra Medina and looked into her - became immediate converts. Given this tea party environment we’re now living in it’s entirely feasible over the next six weeks for Debra to steal 10% more of both the current lukewarm Perry supporters and the current lukewarm KBH supporters and make it into the runoff.
And for those of you who are concerned that if you vote for Medina it will “throw” the election to the other candidate that’s silly. You vote for the most conservative candidate in the March primary... and then if she doesn’t finish in the top 2 you get your chance to vote for Perry or KBH in the runoff anyway.
In many ways Medina beating the RINOs Rick Perry and Kay Baily Hutchinson in the Texas Republican Primary would be an even more important development than was Doug Hoffman’s near victory in New York or Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. While Brown’s victory is important for tactical reasons in the short term... what is much more important in the long run is that the Republican Party be transformed away from the big-government conservatism it has embraced since (at least) the 1950s in favor of small-government constitutionalism... so that when we (the GOP) finally do win back control of a significant majority of the statehouses and maybe even the White House and the US Congress... we actually have people in place dedicated to restoring true fidelity to the United States Constitution, re-establishing the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states as defined by Article I, Section VIII of the Constitution and the 10th Amendment, and rolling back the last century worth of socialism and progressivism that has nearly brought the United States to ruin.
I’m the enternal optomist for sure, but I also believe our thoughts and words have power and so I will not shrink from endorsing/voting my choice.
I only ask that voters make informed and fearless choices, trusting that this is the time to take a united stand. We are a year out of unprecedented government take-overs and debt so there is no viable comparision to past voting patterns or percentages.
All information on all candidates should be shared here, but I hope everyone understands in the current climate that we no longer have to vote for the least undesirable candidate, imho, of course.
Wow, beanshirts. Well said! You’ve explained why we need not fear voting for Medina AND the significance of her winning the governor’s seat.
I will try to find more informatin on the size and type of her business experience...I’m thinking it is a medical equipment business, but not sure.
Let’s post everything we can find out about her and hopefully generate some funds so she can maybe get a few ads together before the primary in March. She added the “money bomb” to her site that was so sucessful for Scott Brown and it’s reading around $400,000 right now. Can that buy an ad? Doubt it, but I think money will keep coming in and the next debate should provide another boost.
You didn’t even address much less answer a single question that I posed. You mentioned Scott Brown; is he running for Governor of Texas too? Scott Brown doesn’t have a thing to do with Medina’s qualifications or lack of. Why not simply list her qualifications that prove she would be an effective CEO of Texas?
Does she even have any?
I have seen no historical proof that she is a conservative. What people have done means something. Obama has proven that words are all but meaningless.
Has anyone ever won the Heisman Trophy because of what they said?
I like the idea, I just don’t think taking land from people is right. I think it’s just un-American. Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I would not like it if my property were in the way.
I know it’s a wasted vote, but I’m tired of career politicians running everything.
I saw this on another site:
Barrack Obama is to socialized healthcare as Rick Perry is to the trans Texas corridor
The reason for the push on medina is to split the conservative vote and get the Rino KBH through the primary.
Wont work.
The GOP will pull stupid games to get the Rino installed. Perry has talked to much about going against the fedgov and the big government rino’s wont let that go unchallenged...
We need to start attacking KBH and not let up until its over. Everything is fair game, personal and professional.
I don’t like Perry.
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