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Sun Aug 16, 2009 at 01:51 PM CDT
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| The Dallas Morning News Trail Blazers Blog started the Heat Index today, a fact-checking series. Of the 8 fact-checks they made (all on Hutchison's and Perry's campaigns), 7 of them received at least two peppers - "stretching the truth just a bit." Half received at least 3 peppers, signifying a "serious misrepresentation of the facts." On such claims (probably just the ones that can be considered significantly marginal), that isn't a good track record to start.
We all knew that Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison played keep-away from the straight-up truth against Democrats, but that's just normal partisan politics. Now they can't even keep it completely straight in a race against themselves.
The problem with politicians used to making arguments at such a high office without much consequences is that they get arrogant, and stretching the truth like this only becomes easier. This is true with both Democrats and Republicans. But in Texas, it is the Republicans that are effected by this phenomenon, and we need a change towards proper representation.
The primary battle between Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry will likely display that voters can't genuinely trust them anymore like we want to trust a governor. Straight talk sometimes just works better, especially in Texas. |
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