Posted on 02/10/2010 12:16:08 PM PST by 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.
humble.. Nice work taking a little snip of my post out of context after I made you look like the complete fool youo are. Are you related to Keith Olbermann?
I thank you very much for pointing out my dyslexia
Would you please correct anything you think is wrong
Or would you just like to resort to pointing out disabilities ?
Got it LOL
See, that’s what I’m talking about. Unwarranted smack talk.
I’m fixin to fire back.
What a shame.
I understand she is connected to the PaulBots. You know that wouldn’t be a bad idea; except what should have been a good idea(PaulBots)has turned into nothing but a group of bullies who like spoiled children who don’t get their way while they profess to love peace. That is a real shame too because they had a golden opportunity to do the right thing; but I suppose nothing but winning got in the way.
You are only seeing the surface of Ms. Medina who is so unqualified; it’s unbelievable. If you vote for her; you will maybe an Obama or at the very least Arnold.
Humblegunner ROCKS.....
Ms. Medina is a crybaby. She also thinks she is entitled to an office she is clearly not prepared for and has not earned the right to run for. She doesn’t work well with others and if you go against her; she will sue you. She did the Republican Party of Tx when she wouldn’t play by the rules. That’s not what I call leadership.
Oboma and his administration does come to mind....Medina has far far Far less than these, can you imagine what would happen to Texas, (which by the way is celebrated by other states for holding their own thru this crisis), should Medina be voted in...I shudder!
Additionally I'm afraid that tea party people may very well vote for less than experienced people who step up to run...it's possible to have both conservative and experience...they must be able to navigate within the state and DC political arena or they will be ineffective.
It's important to look at an individuals effectiveness...Medina has none in Politics....her guy she supported lost. So her history is weak at best.
She wouldn’t play by the rules of the corrupt GOP leadership in Texas?
Ohhhhh Nooooo.. We can’t have her now can we. She didn’t get in line and follow elitists directives.
Man, some of the minds on this thread are so brainwashed, warped, and deformed, you cannot help but to accept the shenanigans of the national parties, It’s FREAKING SCARY!
You should be scared. This woman is no leader. For once, quit being gullible and read between the lines.
Me being gullible? Lol... Keep swallowing your GOP talking points being force fed to you.
“She wouldn’t play by the rules of the {corrupt GOP leadership in Texas}?”
Can you please provide some specific examples of corruption? Like names, circumstances, dates?
And I don’t mean just differences of opinions. I mean prosecutable criminal corruption.
Thanks in advance.
Get your head out of the sand. This is what you should be looking for; not some politicial front.
Look, if I were hiring someone; I would choose the person who may have a better resume than me, more experience perhaps, has leadership ability and is promotable because that person will probably do the best job for the company as well as make me look good. Medina doesn’t strike me as that kind of person. She seems combative; doesn’t work well with others; expectations are to high; and she doesn’t seem serious about the job. I don’t want to take a chance if a real problem came along. Of course these are only my opinions.
I am not telling you who to vote for; just the reality.
Well, I guess the medina troll won’t answer a simple question.
Don’t know about Medina trolls, but I’ll tell you now, Perry and Hutchison had better look out. Perry has not made me unhappy, but I’m so pissed at incumbent politicians that he needs a break from the “profession”. I believe in term limits. Hutchison also needs a break, but more than that, the attack ads in her name against Perry, irritate the heck out of me. Lastly, people whose opinions I greatly respect, are avid on Medina. Time will tell, but at this point, I am 99% sure Medina will get my vote, and from what I can tell, she’s got a lot of my friend’s votes.
It doesn’t have to be criminal to be corruption.
There are no laws governing who a party wants to promote through the heirarchy. But it’s the game of networking, kissing ass, and getting in line. Being one of the “Good ol’ boys.”
It’s the crap you deal with when you only have two parties running the show.
Hey don’t let me bother you. It’s my policy to oppose and ouster phony suits who make politics a career. Serving as an elected public official was never intended to be a 40-year career by our founding fathers.
Keep putting these jackasses in. I don’t want to hear you whine how horrible everything is then. Rick Perry (and countless other Republicans) and Barack Obama are not that far apart. It’s these types of Republicans who have blown the 1994 and 2002 majorities on Capital Hill.
This is such crap. Please point out the policy similarities between Mrs. Medina and those two.
It's obvious that your definition of 'qualified' is based on several propositions:
-You must be a lawyer
-You must be a career politician
-You must have spent many years in Washington
-You must have the backing of the political machine
-Your crowning achievement needs to be "doing slightly more good than harm in a Constitutionally weak governorship".
Why don't you go back to the blanket insults like "She's just a nurse"? That's much less brain-dead than the whole "unqualified" racket.
Any citizen active in their political community who makes an honest living outside of politics and has the right ideology and policies is imminently more qualified than someone who's spent most of their life playing the game of politics.
The founding documents and principles of Texas and the nation are not written for lawyers or the elite. The role of government executive and legislator is understandable to the common man and woman. Always was.
Go ahead and buy into the idea of a ruling elite, who have a secret rulebook unavailable to the rest of us. I'll stick to the principle that politicians should be citizen statesmen and women, who go into public life for a short period and then return to their trade. You can have your groomed elites.
Texas has a ridiculously weak governorship by design. The power rests with the Lt. Governor.
Our legislature meets once every two years for about five months, and the governor's job is to basically veto any garbage that comes across their desk.
If you can point to specific policy directives from Mrs. Medina that might be damaging, please feel free.
Otherwise butt out.
Yes, and Perry's experience led him to endorse Rudy Giuliani in the Republican presidential primaries.
A lot of good that "better resume" did.
She seems combative...
Good! I'd rather have a combative candidate than someone who endorses establishment RINOs.
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