Burka Bashes Hutchison Campaign

We've seen this before (3.00 / 1)

It was called the Hillary Clinton campaign for President.  She thought the nomination was hers and therefore was not out there fighting for it.  Big mistake on KBH's part.

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by: tamsterbath @ Sat Jul 11, 2009 at 20:40:54 PM CDT

KBH stock in free-fall (3.00 / 1)

This is an interesting dynamic predicted by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Schieffer back on March 2nd.  Subsequent events have proven him correct.

Perry reports that his new BFF Sarah Palin will come down and assist his candidacy--which cannot be good news for KBH in the R Primary.

Moreover, KBH faces a rapidly approaching "lose/lose" situation on the upcoming Sotomayor confirmation. She votes "aye", she loses R primary votes.  She votes "nay", she loses general election Hispanic-American votes.

The resignation clock continues to tick.

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by: joe longley @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 09:11:08 AM CDT

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KBH RIP (Politically, That Is) (0.00 / 0)

If she votes no on Sotomayor, she will also lose the votes of Republican women who aren't tied to the religious right.  It's a no-win vote for her. She should be visiting the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan when it is taken.

Actually, I can't figure out why moderates, let alone liberals, have much interest in KBH.  If you follow the ratings of the various conservative groups, she's pretty close to the junior senator, clearly a strong conservative in the USS.  If it's a matter of "anybody except Perry," it might be better to drum up a stronger Democratic opponent who can at least carry the base. Schieffer doesn't fit the bill.

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by: texun @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 12:18:07 PM CDT

I think we can agree... (0.00 / 0)

... that Obama motivated voters in unprecedented ways and carried the D base.  

He received 43.68% of the vote in Texas.  

Rick Noriega received 42.83%.  

Sam Houston pulled in 45.88%

To win in 2010 -- to crack the 50% threshold -- we must have a candidate who can appeal to a broad cross-section of this state.  Tom Schieffer can do that.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." -Frederick Douglass

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by: Ware V. Wendell @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 14:49:04 PM CDT

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Schieffer? (0.00 / 0)

Why do you think that Schieffer can appeal to the base of the Democratic Party? I can't see Tejanos marching to the polls for him, nor would labor union members. Urban liberals?  He looks like a relic from the past, when rural conservatives were the swing vote in Texas.

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by: texun @ Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 07:13:38 AM CDT

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Oh, this is just silly. (3.00 / 2)

I understand why everyone wants her to resign - so the GOP chain reaction officially take place and then all of our, uh...anxious Democratic candidates can make their moves in response (since we couldn't possibly field credible challenges unless seats are actually open) - but let's get real. No competent marketing team schedules a product rollout in the middle of summer. It's one reason why I've already written off Tom Schieffer. KBH will make her move after school starts and people are watching the news again and she'd be foolish to do otherwise. There's no shortage of Perry stupidity for her team to plaster all over every media outlet in the state and she'll certainly have the COH to ride dirty all the way through to March.

Why everyone is tut-tutting her timing and issuing dire warnings about her poll numbers is beyond me. When you have a 2-term INCUMBENT who can't even muster 40% of his own party's primary voters (none of the polls put him above 45%, in fact) that's about as vulnerable as it gets. her favorables give her room to grow and repair whatever damage he's done during the session. His numbers have no silver lining whatsoever.

Moving another 25% into undecided territory while picking up none of them - while you've had the bully pulpit and spotlight virtually to yourself for 6 months - isn't what I would call a promising development for an incumbent governor.

As for "Hispanic-American votes"...unless (and until) a credible Democratic candidate emerges who can actually speak to and motivate Hispanic voters, Kay's vote on Sotomayor will likely make a squat bit of difference in her general chances. That's probably the least of her worries right now.  

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by: Robert Ryland @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 12:21:53 PM CDT

There is no time like the present (0.00 / 0)

This is a big state with a lot of territory to cover.  If you're interested in running a winning campaign, there is no time to waste.  Tom Schieffer is on the ground daily, speaking to folks across the state about his vision for the future.  

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." -Frederick Douglass

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by: Ware V. Wendell @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 14:25:05 PM CDT

Primary decided with the bailout vote (0.00 / 0)

KBH lost the primary with her vote for a $700 billion bailout. Perry took advantage by bringing the issue home.  The worse the bailout looks the worse KBH looks.  

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by: sdhook @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 17:06:20 PM CDT

where is our generation's LBJ? (0.00 / 0)

A real live fighting populist who knows what it's like outside the six-figure income demographic, and cares about the people who live and work in Texas every day, could run riot over Governor Perry and both the Senators.

We need somebody like Lyndon Baines Johnson, who is from, of, and for the People of Texas and All Americans in the World.

(Don't push Vietnam at me. McNamara LIED.)

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by: BlackSheep1 @ Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 08:45:47 AM CDT

Maybe Cheney? (0.00 / 0)

From the Texas Observer.  A little history on the "populist"

Johnson had it a little easier, as his symbiotic relationship with Brown & Root occurred before campaign finance laws required candidates to reveal the sources of their funding. Indeed, by Johnson's own admission, according to his biographer Ronnie Dugger, much of the money he got from Brown & Root came in cash. In return, Johnson steered lucrative federal contracts to the company. Those contracts helped Brown & Root become a global construction powerhouse that today employs 20,000 people and operates in more than 100 countries.

"It was a totally corrupt relationship and it benefited both of them enormously," says Dugger, the author of The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson. "Brown & Root got rich, and Johnson got power and riches." Without Brown & Root's money, Johnson wouldn't have won (or rather, been able to steal) the 1948 race for United States Senate. "That was the turning point. He wouldn't have been in the running without Brown & Root's money and airplanes. And the 1948 election allowed Lyndon to become president," said Dugger, who recently ran for the Green Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in New York.

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by: sdhook @ Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 10:24:08 AM CDT

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I don't get the surprise (0.00 / 0)

And I also don't get how Burka can play like this is news.

Perry will win the nomination, and was always going to win, because he's the candidate with the closest connection to the Republican primary voter in Texas, and has been reelected twice because he's got good instincts and a lot of nerve. Just because we don't like him doesn't make him incompetent politically.

It's reflective of the constant state of Democratic delusion in Texas that we are afraid of a KBH, who has never faced serious opposition and built her Senate career on a Zen mastery of moving through politics without ever doing anything or saying anything, but desire to take on Perry, who has been reelected twice, is popular with the real GOP base, and has the incumbents advantage.

This party is nuts.

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by: Rahm McDaniel @ Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41:37 AM CDT