Why Debra Medina's Candidacy For Texas Governor Should Be Nationalized

Nolan Chart ^ | January 24, 2010 | Phil Pepin

[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.

[dalereed]

“Scott Brown received massive amounts of money from out of state.”

He affects everyone, your illegal alien lover only affects your state.

You want him for Govornor, you pay for it!

[Eaker]

your illegal alien lover

Your Govornor (sic) loves them more and California has more of them.

[dalereed]

i tried to tell everyone Arnie was a piece of shit before they voted for him!

[wild74]

Just sharing my opinion, I would be afraid of voting for Medina for fear in splitting the conservative vote and end up with KBH whom I think would win also.

[wild74]

Perry was a Democrat back in the 80’s I believe but so was most of the people in Texas. Things started changing in Texas when Ronald Reagan was elected. East Texas district 1 didn't get a republican congressman until redistricting happened. Remember the likes of Jim Chapman and Max Sandlin. The old conservative Sam Hall took a federal judge job and Chapman beat ED Harget in a close race.

[Impy]

He totally doesn’t.

In a runoff against KBH conservatives should support him. But there is no reason to support him in the first round over Medina. It’s not a wasted vote. According to the polls she will get enough votes to keep Perry and KBH under 50 and send it to the runoff so if you live in Texas you might as well vote your conscience since there’s going to be a runoff anyway. It would be a miracle if she overtook either of the others but why not give it a try.

[omegabea]

See post 32 and 66. The only thing we have to fear is.....drumroll: “fear itself.”

Good to see you weigh in. Voters are more engaged all over the nation than I have ever seen.

[beanshirts]

Just reinforcing what others have said, there is no danger of “splitting the conservative vote” and getting KBH. If Debra doesn’t make the runoff then you vote for Perry in the runoff and Kay still doesn’t get the nomination. Whether you vote for Debra or Rick on March 2nd is immaterial in regard to Kay winning. She can’t win the Republican nomination with less than 50%+1 no matter how the vote between Debra and Rick is distributed.

[ViLaLuz]

I’m so sick of hearing that people should vote for the candidate “most likely to win” even though that candidate stinks. This unwise practice is part of the what got us into the mess we are in today.

How about just voting for the best candidate?

There are Medina signs all over Fort Worth.

[omegabea]

I don’t know if this thread is dead, but I just found a You Tube video exposing the fact that Perry is paying for registration throughout the state, some found to be drug felons.

That seems like the usual Democrat tactic, but wondering what you supporters think about it. Does it bother you or do you think it is just a smart way to spend campaign money?
Here is the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4H9l8TEa-Q

[ViLaLuz]

omegabea, please don’t confuse me as a Perry supporter. I will NOT be voting for him or KBH for that matter.

[ViLaLuz]

omegabea, please don’t confuse me as a Perry supporter. I will NOT be voting for him, KBH or any other RINO—no matter who Sarah Palin endorses.

[ViLaLuz]

Oops, sorry about the double post :)

[SatinDoll]

Oh, no! If you go to #47 you’ll see that I said I would not vote for either Hutchinson or Perry. But in my case it doesn’t matter since I live in Washington State. I can’t vote in Texas.

Here there has been a pattern of people who run for office saying one thing then, once in office, doing another. I call these sort of politicians ‘heartbreakers’. My thesis is that it is better to have candidates running in the primaries who have a voting history on issues rather than someone who doesn’t. Medina doesn’t seem to have a voting history.

My interest in the election in Texas is due to the illegal alien issue, which is also present in my state.

[deport]

I don’t consider this a big deal one way or the other. An Amway/Mary Kay type process securing voter registration without a full fledge background check will leave open the opportunity for some to be involved to make a few bucks. I saw two of these people at a tea party I attended and they were working the crowd trying to sign up people. This has been in the news in several papers a few days ago.

[K-oneTexas]

Agreed. He sounds like he believes it his position.

[patriot08]

What choice do we have?

Medina ad:

“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)

She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”

No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.

She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.

So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.

No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.

The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties

*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

[lpnykahuna]

Gubernatorial Candidate Challenges New York Establishment http://groundreport.com/articles.php?id=2917009

[GrannyK]

Wasn’t she the ‘truther’....