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My advice for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Republican primary campaign for Texas Governor
By Mitch Dworkin | September 23, 2009
I think that this “Democrats for Kay” information will be very helpful to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Republican primary campaign for Texas Governor:
Question: Why should Democrats want to support Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Republican primary campaign for Texas Governor on her terms?
Answer: Because incumbent Texas Governor Rick Perry is an extreme right wing ideologue from a Democratic standpoint. Democrats may have some honest policy differences with Kay but she is in the mainstream and she is not an extreme ideologue like how Rick Perry is.
Democrats also know reality is that no Democratic candidate can win statewide in Texas because that has not happened since 1994. If a Democrat could have won in Texas, then it would have been Barbara Ann Radnofsky’s Senate campaign in 2006 or Rick Noriega’s Senate campaign in 2008 which were both bad years for Republicans. But they did not win because they did not have the money or the name recognition to run a competitive campaign.
So short of something very big and unexpected happening, no Democratic candidate can win statewide in Texas next year. 2010 is supposed to be a bad year where Democrats are predicted to lose some seats in Congress which means that the only two serious choices for Texas Governor are Republicans Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry.
So because of this reality, Democrats should want to support Kay Bailey Hutchison on her terms for the following reasons:
1) Rick Perry is endorsed by Sarah Palin:
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/perry_texas_palin/2009/02/04/178528.html
Palin Endorses Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 8:54 PM
By: David A. Patten
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is venturing into Lone Star politics by endorsing the re-election bid of Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry over fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.
In yet another sign that Palin is expanding her national political footprint, the Dallas Morning News reports Palin wrote a letter addressed to “Texas Republican Women” that is being widely distributed by the Perry campaign.
“He walks the walk of a true conservative,” Palin states of Perry in the letter. “And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns.”
Portions of the letter were published Tuesday in the Dallas Morning News newspaper…”
Many Democrats think that Sarah Palin is an ideologue who represents the extreme right wing fringe of the Republican Party and is not in the mainstream.
2) Rick Perry bowed down before Rush Limbaugh and kissed his ring just like how so many elected Republicans in Washington do by making him an “Honorary Texan:”
Rick Perry’s official blog:
http://www.rickperry.org/blog/governor-perry-names-rush-limbaugh-honorary-texan
Governor Perry Names Rush Limbaugh Honorary Texan
Fri, 05/29/2009 - 2:30pm — wfranklin
Back in April, Rush Limbaugh mentioned on his radio program that he was fed up with the growing burden of government in New York and was considering moving his operations elsewhere, possibly to Texas.
Last night, Governor Perry again invited Rush Limbaugh to Texas and even made him an official Honorary Texan:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmjENXC3zA
Governor Rick Perry Names Rush Limbaugh Honorary Texan (1:21)
governorrickperry
May 29, 2009
“Governor Rick Perry names Rush Limbaugh an official Honorary Texan at an event in Houston.”
Many Democrats hate the ground that Rush Limbaugh walks on.
3) Rick Perry talked about Texas seceding which is insane:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/governor-says-texans-want-secede-union-probably-wont/
Governor Says Texans May Want to Secede From Union But Probably Won’t
Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights.
AP
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
“Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”
An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt…”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/02/rick-perrys-texas-seceding-from-reality/
SHAPLEIGH: Rick Perry’s Texas seceding from reality
By Eliot Shapleigh Special to The Washington Times | Sunday, August 2, 2009
OPINION/ANALYSIS:
“Like the last governor of the last Southern state, Rick Perry is seceding from reality. During the Civil War, governors took up the shield of “states rights” to protect a society based on slavery. In Mr. Perry’s war with President Obama, he does it to shield America from the reality here in Texas…”
4) Rick Perry wanted to reject $556 million in federal stimulus money for unemployed Texans:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/031309dntexperrystimulus.2b47185d.html
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejects stimulus money for jobless claims
07:03 AM CDT on Friday, March 13, 2009
By CHRISTY HOPPE and ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
choppe@dallasnews.com
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN – “Gov. Rick Perry, joining a handful of his fellow Southern Republican leaders, said Thursday that he was rejecting $556 million in federal stimulus money for unemployed Texans because it had too many strings attached…”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-12-texas-unemployment_N.htm
Texas rejects stimulus money for unemployment
Posted 3/12/2009 9:34 PM
HOUSTON (AP) — “Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep funding the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out…”
If Rick Perry tries to attack Kay Bailey Hutchison for having Democratic support, then Kay can come back and say “I cannot control what other people do for their own reasons, these Democrats are coming to me on my terms fully knowing who I am, and I am not going to refuse the help of anyone who wants to support me just like how Ronald Reagan accepted Democratic supporters in his 1980 and 1984 Presidential campaigns:”
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganConvention1980.html
Acceptance Speech at the 1980 Republican Convention
by Ronald Reagan
July 17, 1980
“More than anything else, I want my candidacy to unify our country; to renew the American spirit and sense of purpose. I want to carry our message to every American, regardless of party affiliation, who is a member of this community of shared values…”
http://www.4president.org/speeches/reagan1984convention.htm
Ronald Reagan
Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination
Republican National Convention
Dallas, Texas
August 23, 1984
“As Democratic leaders have taken their party further and further away from its first principles, it’s no surprise that so many responsible Democrats feel that our platform is closer to their views, and we welcome them to our side…”
Kay can then turn the question around and go on the offensive by saying “so Rick, I cannot control what other people are doing but you can control what you are doing which is why we need to talk about your… (fill in the blank with any issues that you want him to talk about which are in his control).”
This is how Sen. Hutchison can openly have Democratic supporters while at the same time not lose her Republican base of voters. It is kind of like being able to both “have your cake and eat it too.”
These Democratic supporters are needed for Kay in my opinion due to all of the butt kissing that Rick Perry is doing with Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and with their activist base of supporters in a Republican primary in the deep red state of Texas.
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