Posted on 02/20/2010 9:27:49 AM PST by Steelfish
A Texas Senator, Now a Challenger Lagging in Polls
JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. February 20, 2010
DALLAS — Just a year ago, many Republican leaders considered Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to be the odds-on favorite to become the next governor of Texas. A popular lawmaker from the old-guard Republican establishment, she was seen as someone who could widen the party’s appeal after the setbacks it suffered during the 2008 national election.
Back then, the incumbent, Gov. Rick Perry, appeared vulnerable, having won a four-way re-election fight in 2006 and having hitched himself to the most conservative wing of the Republican Party.
But the political winds have shifted for Ms. Hutchison in the last few months, and she now finds herself far behind in the polls, as Mr. Perry has managed to surf a wave of anger here over President Obama’s policies.
Never has a race for governor in Texas so clearly defined the difference between the country-club wing of the Republican Party, where elite business leaders sit astride the financial engines of Dallas and Houston, and the populist Reagan Republicans, talk-radio-fueled voters who are upset about issues like budget deficits, gun control and legalized abortion.
In a sense, Mr. Perry is the embodiment of white, conservative Democrats from the South who switched parties after Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The son of a West Texas rancher, he was an Air Force pilot before he won a Statehouse seat as a Democrat in 1984. He has never lost a race since.
Ms. Hutchison, who was first elected to the Senate in 1993, has rallied most of the Republican establishment behind her. Former President George Bush has endorsed her, as has former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Became the problem instead of the solution.
Wth? Kay is the country club RINO to the extreme while Perry has been working the Tea angle. They have it bassackwards.
And Deborah Medina, the other candidate?
Hutch is still living in the Wash. bubble.
She consistently IGNORES her constituents, and now wonders why no one wants her as Governor.
“Into the middle of this fray has come a third candidate even more conservative than the other two: Debra Medina, a relatively obscure county Republican leader who wants to abolish property taxes and promises to ignore federal laws she considers unconstitutional.”
Works for me! Can we clone her?
She isn’t what she appears. She is a truther, weird one with no hitory other than suing the rnc because Ron Paul lost.
"So Kay, tell me, are you going to do all you can do to see more women elected to the Senate?"
"Oh yes, Larry, I'm going to do all I can to see more women elected to the Senate."
Not a fewking word about conservative, or even Republican women in the Senate, leaving the premise wide open that she had no problem with more women (creatures? things?) like Mikulski, Boxer, Feinstein and Murray in the Senate.
Isn’t Sarah Palin a truther too? I’ve heard her say she’s for a re-investigation of 9/11 and she’s a Perry supporter as well.
KBH, and her elitist supporters, will have their asses handed to them in the primary. I have already voted RP...KBH should climb back into her hole in DC and leave Texas alone. IMHO, she is not even close to being a real Texan...
Seems funny that a bunch of country clubbers at the NYT are telling Texas voters who a country clubber is.
Kinky Freidman is less moonbatty.
mne is exactky right. Medina doesn’t have any real agenda. Yes she is saying things we like to hear but she hasn’t offered any proff she has a better plan.
She keeps harping on doing away with protery taxes. who wouldn’t like that but she never details how and where she will make up tghe shortfall. During the debate when asked about it all she could say was it would be up to the legislature.
Uh NO Debra You suggested it, it is up to you to explain how it could really work.
KBH has disappointed me, she offers no real reason to vote for her
DM is like a piss-ant at a picnic. I wish she would vanish...
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Let’s not forget the little show she put on with Hillary Clinton in Dallas...
Might as well go back to practicing medicine and talking loony theories in darkened rooms with her Troofer friends.
“Into the middle of this fray has come a third candidate even more conservative than the other two: Debra Medina, a relatively obscure county Republican leader who wants to abolish property taxes and promises to ignore federal laws she considers unconstitutional.”Also not sure that GW Bush and the US government weren't involved in the bombing of the World Trade Centers on 9-11...But then maybe you aren't sure either.
promises to ignore federal laws she considers unconstitutional.That sounds good but she doesn't get to pick and choose which laws are unconstitutional...Obama does that. Do you also approve of Obama doing it?
Be careful what you wish for.
Medina’s own words that have been posted a thousand times proving she is a truther.
Post Sarah Palin’s words stating as much.
President Bush authorized the investigation so does this mean that he thought he himself planned and executed the attack?
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