Debra Medina (TX Gov. Candidate) On Glenn Beck Tomorrow

9.12 Project | 2/10/2010 | Jared Law

[agondonter]

Debra Medina (TX Gov. Candidate) On Glenn Beck Tomorrow

* Posted by Jared Law on February 10, 2010 at 9:14am in 9.12 Project Candidates

Glenn Beck just announced that Debra Medina (R-TX) is within a few points of Kay Bailey Hutchison, and what I took from the way he worded it was that he is suggesting that she MAY be the real deal, and that she MAY be the candidate that the Tea Party Movement (9.12 Project Included, one must assume) has been looking for.

There has been so much discussion of Debra Medina here on The 9.12 Project Network, I'm sure many of our thousands of Texans will be interested in this discussion.

So before Glenn covers her live on air, let's look at the Candidates for the Texas Governor. These are my personal impressions, not being a Texas resident, and not having investigated these candidates, this is just my impression based upon what our members have been saying:

1) The Incumbent: a smooth-talking Texan, Rick Perry, who many charge is a political chameleon, who only sounds like a Principled Patriot during an election cycle. This is a charge leveled by none other than Pat Gray, whose opinion I trust (he was, after all, Glenn's closest friend when Glenn was an arrogant jerk, before Glenn was "born again" and met his wife, Tania) more than most media figures.

2) The unrepentant "progressive," Kay Bailey Hutchison. Kay is not a Principled Patriot; she's the Republican "progressive" who needs to be, IMHO, eliminated from Texas politics altogether, but that's just my opinion; all "progressives," IMHO, should be run out of office, in Texas, and all across America!

3) Debra Medina, the emerging, surging candidate who many here and all across the Internet say is THE Tea Party/9.12 Project/Principled Patriot candidate.

But who are they, really?

For example, here's what somebody on our network emailed me about Debra Medina:

The Texas Republican gubernatorial primary was supposed to be a really big battle between two very large and important Goliaths. But a little David showed up and is threatening to toss a bag of tea in both their faces.

Debra Medina, a nurse and entrepreneur, entered the GOP's gubernatorial primary with little to no fanfare. The "tea party" activist and Ron Paul organizer was expected to register, well, not at all. The first poll seemed to confirm her status as an also-ran -- registering a mere four per cent as against two-term Texas governor Rick Perry at 46 per cent, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison at 35 per cent.

But then a few remarkable things happened. For one, Medina appeared to clean house in the first televised debate between the three candidates. Just about everyone thought Medina had won the debate. And she got a little bit of traction. In fact, and for two, she got just enough traction to be invited to the major televised debate, the state-wide "Belo" debate, aired on several major networks across Texas.

The Belo debate requires that a candidate receive 15 per cent in a major poll in order to be included. After the first debate, Medina managed to more than double her polling numbers from four to 12 per cent. That put Medina within the margin of error of 15 per cent, and the Belo folks decided that she should be included.

The second debate did not have a clear winner, although, having watched it, my own conviction is that Medina outperformed the other candidates (You can judge for yourself by following the link at the bottom of this post and watching the debate for yourself). Although a local Fox affiliate seemed to think Medina did surprisingly well:

Still, Medina's biggest problem was name recognition and simple awareness. And Medina simply can't compete with the campaign war chests of Perry and Hutchison -- both of whom have raised in excess of a whopping $10 million dollars, compared with Medina's comparatively meager half-a-million -- so paying for television commercials to blanket the state is not an option. Measured in those terms, the underdog may or may not have won the debate, but she certainly won in terms of advertising and getting her message out.

That message is beginning to resonate more and more. Medina wants to eliminate the state property tax and replace it with an increased consumption tax. She is a fierce fiscal conservative, and recites the U.S. Constitution with a familiarity and ease that neither of the other two candidates seem to possess. She carries a gun in her car, and insists that Texas needs to be friendlier to the Second Amendment. She shares the convictions of Ron Paul fans, as well as the Tea Party movement sweeping the U.S.

Do I have proof that the message is resonating more and more? Sure I do. After the Belo debate, Medina's numbers moved from 12 to 16 per cent. Meanwhile, today, Public Policy Polling released an astounding poll (PDF), putting Medina's support at a whopping 24 per cent, compared with Perry's 39 and Hutchison's 28 per cent (margin of error at +/- 4.8 per cent).

That wouldn't be a really big deal, since there isn't a lot of time before the election (March 2nd), and Perry is still more than ten points above his nearest competitor. Except that Texas is a primary run-off state. If Perry doesn't get more than 51 per cent, the last place candidate is dropped, and we have a run-off between the top two vote-getters. If Medina manages to get more votes than Hutchison, now a distinct possibility, she may just manage to eke it out, and secure a victory on a par with Scott Brown's surprise election in Massachusetts.

[davetex]

TTT , Advocating Taking private property & giving it two foreign or US corps , Advocating young girls be forced to take Gardisil, Taking Texas citizens earnings & giving them to Countywide other Corps, Advocating the Congress act on TARP ................................... ?

What would you call it?

53 posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:52:29 PM by roylll

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What is TTT? Who confiscated private property without compensation and gave it to another country? I was not aware private wages were confiscated and given to corporations.

[GunRunner]

Do you think Bush blew up the World Trade Center?

Are you insinuating that Ron Paul believes the Bush Administration engineered 9/11?

A simple Google search can debunk that:

http://seoblackhat.com/2007/07/27/ron-paul-not-truther-interview/

[roylll]

TTC , sorry about that Trans Texas Corridor

Study what Rick Perry has advocated for the citizens of Texas

[Deb]

Reagan was a Democrat too, at one time. Ms. Medina may be a fine conservative and if she is she needs to get elected to a lesser office and develop a voting record that can be evaluated. I don’t trust anyone who worked for Ron Paul and has no political history.

[Onerom99]

Man you’re so dense. Obama’s inexperience has very little to do with how he’s running this country. His political philosophies and agenda are behind his disasterous presidency.

Seriously, do you even think before you post?

[Onerom99]

roylll, this brainwashed clown supports the continued politican machinery and chicanery that has plagued this country for the better part of the past 80 years.

He’s of the same mindset as supporters of Fidel and Hugo. He carries the same warped mind that he’ll be unable to survive without keeping these immortal elites in power.

[Onerom99]

Ms. Medina may be a fine conservative and if she is she needs to get elected to a lesser office and develop a voting record that can be evaluated


By this you must mean that she must go through the process of kissing the asses of elitist party leaders and often compromise her principles like The Hutch and The Hair?

I'd pass on her if she went this route.

[davetex]

Study what Rick Perry has advocated for the citizens of Texas

63 posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:18:35 PM by roylll

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I have and I certainly don’t agree with all of it, but I also certainly would not raise it to the level of tyranny.
My definition of tyranny and yours must be very different.
Thanks for replying.

[roylll]

Here is my def. of tyranny

Rick Perry advocating taking private property & putting it under foreign control and then charge the Citizens of Texas to drive on it

http://www.slickrickperry.com/trans_texas_corridor

“Rick Perry talks a lot about limiting government and protecting private property. But actions speak louder than words. Just look at Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor, his plan to seize nearly 600,000 acres of private property and turn it over to a foreign company to build toll roads.”

Whats your def. ?

[roylll]

Who is the brainwashed clown you are referring too ?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Here is my def. of tyranny

Rick Perry advocating taking private property & putting it under foreign control and then charge the Citizens of Texas to drive on it

http://www.slickrickperry.com/trans_texas_corridor

“Rick Perry talks a lot about limiting government and protecting private property. But actions speak louder than words. Just look at Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor, his plan to seize nearly 600,000 acres of private property and turn it over to a foreign company to build toll roads.”

Whats your def. ?

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Fits my definition of “tyranny”......What Perry did with the TTC was nothing short of Wealth Redistribution. Perry is just another Liberal Anti-American Globalist

Still, I am not sure about Medina...as I read she was pro-Illegal Alien/Open Borders....which is just the same mantra as Perry and Hutchinson.

[davetex]

OK, I’ll ask you again because you did not answer my question the first time.

Who confiscated private property without compensation and gave it to another country? And when did this happen?

What you are talking about never came to fruition.

How can something that never happened and never will be considered tyrannical?

[roylll]

Fair enough , If you click on my name you can trace links to Medinas position on Illegal Imm.

I have no problem with Medinas position on that issue

I have stood for 35+ years with the Late Geo Putnam, Glenn Spencer, Prop 187 in Ca ...... In the fight against Illegal Imm., to let you know where I stand on the issue

[roylll]

I never said Perry did it, He Advocated it & I have never heard him say point blank , I was wrong for advocating it

[humblegunner]

Man you’re so dense. Obama’s inexperience has very little to do with how he’s running this country.

Ohhhh-kay.

So then it must be hunky-dory to elect a nurse to govern Texas?

[Eaker]

This post has so many misspelled words and is so full of lies I refuse to even touch it until you get a sixth grader to correct it for you and do some Google research.

[Eaker]

Don't worry, the illegal aliens will get it.

[davetex]

What’s the deal with the personal attacks from the medinaites? I’ve tried to be polite while debating these folks, but they are just down right nasty. I got called something or other earlier from a couple of them. And I don’t even think they live here. There are trolls trying to tell Texans how to vote.

I’m thinking things are pretty good around my neck of the woods. Why on earth would we want to screw with that during all this national turmoil.

[Onerom99]

humblegunner.

[Onerom99]

Nurse vs Corrupt Attorney.

Yea thats a real tough one. :rolleyes: