Crazy Governor Rick Perry who stood last April 15th, on the first national Tea Party sponsored by Fox News Glenn Beck talked seriously about secession. Yesterday 51% of Texas Republicans tuned in with their votes. Crazy Tea Party Libertarian Birther and 911 Conspiracy nutjob Debra Medina won another 18% of the Republican vote. While once reasonable Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson went from 20 points ahead to 20 points behind no matter she did spread her legs for the Texas Tea Baggers.
Less than a year ago, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was the most popular elected official in Texas and the oddson favorite to be the next governor of Texas. Some polls showed her leading the incumbent, Rick Perry, by more than 20 points.
What Hutchison didn’t realize this time a year ago was that her fate may well have been sealed by Tax Day, April 15, 2009, when Perry spoke at tea party rallies in Houston, Dallas and Austin and suggested — merely suggested — that Texas might have reason to secede from the union. He never mentioned the word “secession,” but there was no mistaking his drift.
Signaling his sympathy with the wave of anti-Washington, anti-Obama animus sweeping Texas and the country — animus fueled by the tea partiers — Perry effectively tagged his fellow Republican as a creature of Washington after her 16 years in the Senate. She never recovered from the anti-Washington barrage. And she knew it. Hutchison didn’t realize how strong the anti-Washington sentiment was
So now it’s a battle between Republican Rick Perry and Democratic Mayor of Houston Bill White. I wonder how that will go here in Dumbutt? Gosh…