March 02, 2010
— Dave in Texas Rick "Adios Mo-Fo" Perry holding strong against Kay Bailey.
I still don't get this. I mean, I live here, I should get it. But I don't.
Anyway, he's going to smack her around tonight and Bill White in November.
9/11 Truther (sorry, she is) Paulbot Deb Medina actually holding around 17% or so.
BONUS: Adios Mofo
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Posted by: Rocks at March 02, 2010 05:17 PM (Y8smK)
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Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 02, 2010 05:20 PM (Wh0W+)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:21 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: Alex at March 02, 2010 05:21 PM (AahHR)
She's only pulling 17% of the vote or so. Perry had the tea party folks long before Medina showed up.
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:26 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: ParisParamus at March 02, 2010 05:27 PM (flcpl)
Posted by: john Lubenow at March 02, 2010 05:27 PM (uTSRj)
Wat is the level of support for Medina among the tea partiers in TX? The media and blogosphere seem pretty anxious to show the support for her.
I think she had some tea party support until the truther thing emerged and people learned that she was a Paulbot.
Posted by: Countrysquire at March 02, 2010 05:27 PM (Oo6wg)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:27 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:29 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 09:27 PM (7m5P2)
Let me be clear: my illegal-alien aunt lives in some ghetto in boston, and is not sequestered in the White House attic.
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Posted by: dr kill at March 02, 2010 05:33 PM (qO6T2)
She really loses nothing but money at this point. She's still senator with ample time and opportunity to campaign for reelection when needed.
Perry was the best of the lot when Medina pandered (or worse) to the Truthers. Texas' diversity and relative economic strength under Perry keeps him in good standing. His grasping on to Tea Partyers' platform early last year earned him some brownie points that are helping him now. Perfect? No, but good enough under the circumstances. Hopefully, the other state institutions will keep him checked.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 02, 2010 05:34 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 02, 2010 09:20 PM (Wh0W+)
Oh, true. I have no idea why she ran either. I find it hard to believe she wants to be Governor and she's too old to be positioning herself as a National figure. Maybe she wants the double pension from the feds and the state or something.
Posted by: Rocks at March 02, 2010 05:34 PM (Y8smK)
THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!! YOURS!!1!
Posted by: Beethoven Von Sanchopanza at March 02, 2010 05:34 PM (BhLdo)
Posted by: Scott at March 02, 2010 05:35 PM (US171)
Posted by: Countrysquire at March 02, 2010 05:35 PM (Oo6wg)
"ADIOS, MoFo" is one of my favorite phrases. Succinctly captures a multitude of expressions and feelings with brevity. And lucidity. If you don't get it, you're not lucid!
Posted by: NC Ref at March 02, 2010 05:35 PM (B8WUW)
You forgot about me. I'm still waiting on the 90-cent monthly advance on my rent that you promised me, Barry.
Posted by: Bro ObaMao at March 02, 2010 05:37 PM (554T5)
I get it too, Dave, and I understand your confusion. I had said no way would I vote for Perry again. But then KBH ran one of the most piss poor tone deaf campaigns I've ever seen (the Trans-Texas corridor argument is so 2007, Kay!) and then Medina had to whack herself out of contention on Beck's show when he was trying to give her a big boost - I ended up voting for Perry.
And what really sold me once and for all on Perry was when he and Abbot sued the EPA. My God, I like Perry better now than I have for the 20 years he's been in State Government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2010 05:38 PM (T1boi)
Posted by: dr kill at March 02, 2010 09:33 PM (qO6T2)
I never looked at Mormonism OR Christian Scientology until South Park did episodes on the subjects. Yeah I was deprived educationally!!!
After looking deeper, I can't believe they continue to exist.
.....(says the Irish Catholic racist mofo....)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 02, 2010 05:39 PM (B8WUW)
Posted by: MiMi1776 at March 02, 2010 05:44 PM (CKpTa)
Posted by: dr kill at March 02, 2010 09:33 PM (qO6T2)
Well, since we have a muslim extremist in the Whitehouse now...
Posted by: If I can't eat it or fuck it I piss on it at March 02, 2010 05:45 PM (lxg2b)
Mormonism is goofy, but they are the nicest people ever. So if the sacrifice is some strange theology for generous and kind people who would give you the shirt off your back, I'll take it.
When they start flying planes into buildings, then I'll look at their theology again.
As to "Bush might have had something to do with 9/11". Yeah, I know, just asking questions, no matter how irrational. Hell, by that standard, anybody might have. George Soros is a more likely candidate.
But what it does is absolve the muslims, which is pretty much what any good anti-Semite wants.
Just remember, every Paultard believes the same things Medina does. Some of them are just better at keeping it to themselves.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 02, 2010 05:46 PM (Vo2Ef)
634 of 8236 Precincts Reporting -
Perry 53%
Hutchison 31%
Medina 17%
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+/tard at March 02, 2010 05:47 PM (IoUF1)
Posted by: moi at March 02, 2010 05:47 PM (PTfOR)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 02, 2010 09:41 PM (B8WUW)
Gonna be shame when they don't make the tourney.
Posted by: WisConbowhunter at March 02, 2010 05:47 PM (S3BMi)
Posted by: eman at March 02, 2010 05:49 PM (D7/BU)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:50 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: eman at March 02, 2010 05:52 PM (D7/BU)
Posted by: Powdery Substance at March 02, 2010 05:55 PM (l8Sqa)
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick at March 02, 2010 05:55 PM (arasA)
They weren't illiterates, you heathen. Paul, for one, spoke and wrote at least 4 languages fluently. (Latin, Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew.)
And his skil was fairly typical for any educated man in that era who had received a hellenistic influenced eduation. The teachings of Plato peak out from behind his words several times.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2010 05:57 PM (T1boi)
Secondly, despite it's beginnings, Mormonism has some quality values, namely the family. My husband was raised in the Mormon church (he's not a practicing Mormon), my in laws and extended family are all Mormons and there's not a damn thing wrong with that.
Romney's religion has nothing to do with his fitness for office. He has a long record of service to look at, so taking cheap shots at his religion is, well, un-American. (Same thing was done to JFK, btw)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 06:05 PM (7m5P2)
Posted by: AngelEm at March 02, 2010 06:07 PM (Aq93A)
I was in TX this past weekend. Heard a KBH radio ad with an ominous boogey-man voiceover slamming Perry for living in a house that was "costing the taxpayers $2000 a month."
I think I actually laughed out. You can barely get a run-down one bedroom here in NYC for that price.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at March 02, 2010 06:07 PM (VPyqz)
Posted by: AmishDude at March 02, 2010 06:09 PM (Vo2Ef)
Posted by: BA at March 02, 2010 06:16 PM (GkYyh)
Hey! Some of us voted for the crazy truther chick in hopes that KBH would come in last.
Posted by: John Galt at March 02, 2010 06:21 PM (Ylv1H)
Although personally, given the three choices I had as a Republican-aligned voter, I exercised my right not to vote at all.
Posted by: Zimriel at March 02, 2010 06:30 PM (nNRhT)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 02, 2010 06:30 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: lauren at March 02, 2010 06:32 PM (U/LZ2)
I Live in Austin (barely, considered Round Rock for all intents and purposes) and I was really excited when KBH anounced for the Gov race. I have no real love for Perry, his stupid Trans TX corridor, the HPV vaccine, the fact the rainy day fund is going to be blown by next year's budget.....well.......lets just say politically and policy wise I have my doubts with him. Added bonus: I think I think he is an asshole.
But I voted for him. Happily.
KBH did nothing to close the deal. She offered me me nothing on standing up for Texas. What Texas needs is more Texas and less DC, and she had told Texas in the debate that "States can't be allowed to make their own decisions"
her words ,. look them up.
I was all set to vote for Medina after the first debate, but then she came out as a truther- those freaks need to move or have their heads beat in with baseball bats to clean up the gene pool.
Please don't give me that "it was a set up" crap, that is a set up like a slow pitch soft ball to a major league hitter. SHE IS A FREAK.
So I am STUCK WITH PERRY, and sadly proud of it.
Posted by: Gerry Owen at March 02, 2010 06:35 PM (4Hy88)
Posted by: enoxo at March 02, 2010 06:39 PM (QlPoa)
Posted by: Filly at March 02, 2010 06:40 PM (FDfio)
eman at March 02, 2010 09:52 PM (D7/BU)
Take yourself out to Salt Lake city and visit...The hall of heros at the Hill AFB museum might be enlightening...Try July 4th for your visit and you'll likely see more American flags in and around SLC than you'll see anywhere. Nice place and nice people...Your cheap shot at Romney is, in a word...Cheap! If you don't his politics fine, but the Mormon smear is bullshit...
Posted by: Nozzle at March 02, 2010 06:40 PM (lxg2b)
Posted by: stuiec at March 02, 2010 06:45 PM (GU29T)
Posted by: MathMom at March 02, 2010 06:47 PM (TEl2c)
Math Mom, you've got it exactly right.
My lovely Iris and I were on the road from San Antonio back home to Galveston today. (a bit chilly out, but gorgeous Texas day from inside the cozy car)
Perry has been far more good than bad for Texas, and all in all, for basic conservatism. Not perfect, but better than worse.
Plus, he's hella strong on 2nd Amendment issues, even spending considerable time at his local Austin shooting ranges. He's not just a dillitante at the range, either. He's known to be a good shot, knowledgeable on 2A issues and supportive in the extreme.
I can gauge a lot of a polititian by his or her 2nd Amemdment stances. If they trust us with full, free and unfettered access to arms, and the carriage thereof, then it's more likely they're on our side of freedom, too.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 02, 2010 07:08 PM (eRAUU)
Posted by: enoxo at March 02, 2010 07:18 PM (QlPoa)
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 07:24 PM (7m5P2)
Of course, you get the government you deserve, voters. Texas voters deserve low taxes, low unemployment, and a government with a surplus, apparently. Who points out the 10th amendment and changes course when he pisses the people off.
Posted by: throwaway handle at March 02, 2010 07:31 PM (dUOK+)
Posted by: Whippet at March 02, 2010 07:34 PM (9IjK0)
Sorry, but gotta ask the most obvious question.
Why in hell did KBH run? I can't recall anyone saying with a straight face that she had a chance to win the GOP nomination over Perry. I mean nobody.
Honestly I hope she does resign so Perry can select someone a bit more dynamic for that position.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at March 02, 2010 07:35 PM (xIqkW)
Fuck you, and anyone who calls you a friend.
Posted by: Dick at March 02, 2010 07:36 PM (A/F+n)
Posted by: GW McLintock at March 02, 2010 07:44 PM (zFh1t)
Just got in from our precinct convention ( in Ellis County here in TX. Joe Barton is our house rep). The lines were long at the polls and (R) outnumbered (D) at minimum 10-1...
I and my family voted Perry as KBH has been on our shit-list for some time. During the course of the last few years, EVERY attempt to contact KBH has been pointless. Never once has she responded personally to any correspondence. I (and many people here) can and do speak with Joe Barton, John Cornyn and practically any other credible (R) rep... With KBH, you always get a canned "form" letter that doesn't even address the issue. And that is a prevailing theme relayed by numerous people at every meeting I have attended who has tried to contact KBH. She is a master of tap-dancing the subject. She had the endorsements of heavies like Dick Cheney and celebs Roger Staubach and Nolan Ryan. But she is out-of-touch.
KBH's TV ads were made up of newspaper headlines that slammed Perry. Sources like the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, etc...in other words; KBH figuring the dumb-assed (R) voters would take some rag's op-ed headline as a reason to vote for her...She is clueless.
Anyway. The way I see it-It's been a good night for TX. At least for me; Born, raised and always a Texan...
Posted by: R. at March 02, 2010 07:52 PM (wzbjn)
Posted by: Tipsy McStagger at March 02, 2010 07:56 PM (46jpP)
Posted by: Tipsy McStagger at March 02, 2010 08:02 PM (46jpP)
@74.
I am sure it was a bunch to not very many. The working people and business owners are involved.
Ya, know...the best part will be when that ass-wipe, scumbag Chet Edwards is gone come November.
The state-wide totals of (R) vs (D) are staggering...
Posted by: R. at March 02, 2010 08:10 PM (wzbjn)
My son waited 35 min to vote at 1:30 this afternoon. He said that the entire time, not one Dem. voted.
Posted by: Naan at March 02, 2010 08:14 PM (j5MTj)
Posted by: eman at March 02, 2010 08:35 PM (D7/BU)
Posted by: Dave in Singapore at March 02, 2010 08:49 PM (pcJe3)
eman
Paul didn't record Christ's life and death, nor did Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
Or for that matter Thaddeus, Simon Peter, Anderw, James, Thomas, or any of the rest of the remaining eleven. The Gospels were not written by the disciples, but by their followers. That is the reason for the undeniable historical inaccuracies and holes in the narrative. The point is, they were written down because the discoples' followers witnessed their martyrdom and miracles. Now whether the miracles happened or not, the martyrdom sure as hell did, and the second generation (or third) recorded the stories passed to them orally by the eleven disciples. And believed enough in what they had witnessed to similarly go to their deaths. Faith is far different from self-delusion, though you might not recognize the difference.
It's like arguing with Hitchens . . . Gee, you don't believe in the same God I don't believe in.
Posted by: hobgoblin at March 02, 2010 11:04 PM (VQmeI)
"I was in TX this past weekend. Heard a KBH radio ad with an ominous boogey-man voiceover slamming Perry for living in a house that was "costing the taxpayers $2000 a month."
I think I actually laughed out. You can barely get a run-down one bedroom here in NYC for that price."
$10,000 a month. And I actually felt this a bit unfair since the only reason for this is cause some jackass burned down the damn governor's mansion. Sure, $10,000 a month is expensive, but state business isn't conducted out of a damn trailer.
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2010 11:15 PM (4ixH5)
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Having said that, KBH ran the worst campaign I've seen since Mondale v Reagan. She could have added at least another ten percent to her totals had she backed up Bunning. Instead she acted like all the other gutless Washington Republicans.
Williams for Senate!
Posted by: Peter at March 03, 2010 02:24 AM (ekDQv)
Posted by: Editor at March 02, 2010 09:33 PM (YX6i/)
if they do, I am so moving there.
Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Meteors, and buckets of scorn for the left at March 03, 2010 03:49 AM (erIg9)
I don't understand her challenge I meant.
Well, if I wanted to be conspiratorial (though not quite at a truthiness level of conspiracy), KBH might have run as a favor to Perry so that all the oxygen would be sucked out of the primaries by two large campaign chests, thus preventing effective challenges to Perry. Kinda like McCain/Obama. Hutchison's job was to lose gracefully and hand victory to Perry.
I don't really believe that. Just asking questions, you know? Personally, I think the grays got to her, and she was running as a Manchurian candidate for them. Thank goodness the grays don't understand our culture well enough to run an effective campaign, yet. Yet.
Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at March 03, 2010 04:37 AM (pZEar)
I agree with others, Bailey's add about the $10,000 mansion did it for me, that is almost as stupid as truther comments by Medina.
What's up witht #70, somebody p*ss in someones's cornflakes this morning?
Posted by: Texanadian at March 03, 2010 05:25 AM (bWcmi)
Posted by: Gerry Owen at March 03, 2010 05:27 AM (4Hy88)
Dick, #70,
Fuck you. I heard what she said. She's an idiot.
She's also a coward for trying to walk it back. So she's a gutless idiot too.
Piss off.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 03, 2010 06:58 AM (Wh0W+)
Posted by: Gerry Owen at March 03, 2010 09:27 AM (4Hy8
Nope. Love Coombs but it's Michael Williams we need in the Senate.
Probably not gonna happen, but I would love for Gregg Abbott (our fantastic Attorney General) to run for President.
Posted by: mongerel at March 03, 2010 07:23 AM (32hpL)
My guess for KBH running for Governor is total hubris. I think she wanted an Executive position, and she thought it was her time. Hell, the national and state GOP probably told her it was her time, and she just believed it. She's nothing if not establishment. So it doesn't matter want the voters say, she just wouldn't believe until the ballots were counted.
Otherwise, I never truly understood why KBH came back. She lost me as a Senator a long time ago. Perry had lost me as Governor too, but as others have pointed out, he's become somewhat a changed man in the last 2 years. KBH: no change. I'm not Hope and Change guy, but when you had a Governor more interested in Mexico than Texas, we needed change. Again, KBH: no change.
Medina could have been change. I wanted to vote for her. I really did. I even refused to buy the talking points after Beck's interview. But like others, I finally heard the full exchange on the radio. She was set up like I used to set up my daughters in T-Ball. She didn't even need to slam it home with a "Hell No". She just needed to say, "I'm not a Truther". She could have then pushed her Ron-bot: "We should always question government". Yet none of that. Not even after Beck put the ball back on the T and gave her a second chance. Not a few days later when local newsmedia put a mic in front of her and asked the question again. Finally, as another pointed out, her claim of executive capability is questionable at best. Now is not the time to learn on the job. The only reason to vote for Median is to send a message to KBH, and Perry. So...
Big note to Perry: YOU WILL LOOK LIKE BUSH III IF YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012. Some may miss him now, but deep down, we all know the US could have done better than W. Just because W is better than Gore, Kerry, Obama, or McCain isn't any significant accomplishment. Stick with Governor and keep using that stump to push State's rights while leading Texas to greatness.
Posted by: Leland at March 03, 2010 07:24 AM (Q5asM)
He reminded me a whole lot of Fidel Castro, or maybe Chavez.
I wonder if Perry will be branded a "quitter" like Palin when he decided to run for Prez in 2012?
Posted by: TXMarko at March 03, 2010 07:50 AM (37FVy)
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick at March 03, 2010 11:49 AM (g9neE)
the 3 challengers had hardly any campaign funding, and still got 20% of vote.
To beat a challenger you need plenty of funding to overcome name recognition
Posted by: jp at March 03, 2010 11:54 AM (DFDtC)
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Out of the choices, who else was it gonna be?
Posted by: mpur at March 02, 2010 05:16 PM (7m5P2)