Rick Perry is a carefully crafted hairdo nonentity. Sarah Palin will not be a viable candidate for national office again unless she first serves some time as a Senator or congressperson.

KBH will face a tough battle for reelection.

Texas will turn Blue in the next three election cycles.

I didn’t realize til well after the election that Governor Palin never said she could see Russia from her house/porch as KBH implies. It was Tina Fey who said that. Governor Palin’s suitability for national office at this point in time stems, among other things, from the fact that she has not been in that slimy bunch of appeasers known as the Senate and congress. Governors are infinitely better bets, in general. Being in the senate didn’t seem to help Mr. McCain. The senator who did win isn’t exactly a gem.

Wow, that was pretty pathetic. I actually liked her and was seriously considering voting for her for governor. Perry’s starting to look like a governor I could like instead of one I have to hold my nose for when voting.

People who don’t often vote Republican. KBH is running on the McCain model: “Vote for me, the not-evil Republican–I hate Republicans just like you.”

Perry has done a lot of stupid things to be sure. His main flaw is he’s following the GWB model: Let everyone in the media beat on you and lie about you and make fun of you and . . . say nothing. Perry’s leadership is what has let in so much blue into Texas–failing to aggressively attack liberal ideas and advances; while proposing too many feel-good ideas and no aggressively conservative ideas.

One thing Perry has done a great job about is economics. Texas has lead the nation for the last 7 years in exports and we are the number one state in the Union to do business in; he has done a lot to keep it that way.

Also, without Palin on the ticket, Texas would have been way, way closer–I see McCain Palin bumper stickers with the McCain cut off.

Wow, what a pathetic choice. I would think the great state of Texas could come up with some better choices then these two.

The continuance of criticism towards Sarah makes me think they really are concerned about her popularity and her viability as a future candidate for Conservatives. If they didn’t think she was a powerful player, they would ignore her. And, for me, the more they criticize her, the more I like her.

There is no reason why conservatives should ever support a pro-abortion politician like KBH in a Republican primary.

… but for any Red State, or even CLOSE call we must help to get real Conservatives to the Top of the Tickets!!!! Specter is part of the reason, IMO, that the State has slid more and more Blue (wimpy Republicanism breeds more lukewarm support that results in people not showing up to vote Republican on Election days).

…as a conservative Texan, I will say that I prefer Rick Perry’s conservative politics…BUT from all the folks I talk to, at work, in the neighborhood. No one likes Rick Perry, his Toll Road inititative has ticked off the rural voters and his push for inoculation of female children ticked off the other half, lots of issues with Governor’s Manson burning down…..

Everyone refers to him as Governor Good Hair (even conservative voters), this has nothing to do with his politics but his personality. Would he win reelection (yes by 50-55%). Will KBH win in the general election, she would steam-role anyone in her path, yes by 65%+. This makes a huge difference in down the ballot elections.

Is she pitching for the 45% of solid republican voters…yes, but she is going for the 30% of Texas independent voters, that she has a chance to get in the R column in a big redistricting year. KBH is a conservative (check her voting record), and she has the ability to sweep the state (every democrat I know, has voted for her, only because they say “they like her, and trust her” (not the Rick Perry perception).

I question whether any honest and intelligent conservative or Republican could vote for that woman. I’d rather see the seat go blue. Governors can’t do much here. Then again, neither can our state legislature. Our state house is dominated and controlled by Kay Barely Republicans.

I’m starting to think all this debate about Sarah Palin is a distraction. I’d rather see us focus on the actual policy issues, candidates, and elections we are facing now. It seems here KBH would not.

Texas will probably never turn completely blue like the People’s Republic of California, but if Texas becomes a minority majority state and the electoral trends of Democratic dominance of Hispanics continue, I can unfortunately see Texas becoming a purple state by 2020 or so.

I had to think long and hard about voting for Perry his last time up. I was > < that close to voting for Kinky Friedman if his performance in the debates hadn’t been just so awful. I was never going to vote for Strayhorn or Bell.

In the primary, I’ll go for Perry. I’ve never been too happy with KBH as senator, and I’d prefer someone primaries her.

And speaking as a Texan, yeah, we’re way more likely to secede here over the next decade than go blue, especially if the central behemoth keeps overreaching.

Her “adopted” daughter KBH is following the same path to SORROW AND FAILURE. KBH’s real parents are Demoncratus and the slutty Libera.

But there’s still hope for Republica’s children. Her real daughter Sarah is following the path of his father, Ronnie. Her son, Rick, still knows who his pure-blood sister really is. They are both conservative.

…Texas republicans have competed well in the valley. Republicans have an opportunity to expand and hopefully win this important voting block in Texas at some point before 2020.

But KBH has won this vote or took at large precentage in her past elections. She will be a great Governor, I hope Rick Perry bows out (keep hoping this is a trick to keep him from being considered a lame-duck Governor in this session of legislature). It would be nice if he would consider a run for another office in the future, but this next cycle keep the firepower on the Democrats.

This election was something of an aberration, with the final choices both from the Senate.

The primary breeding ground of future Presidents, for both parties, seems to be the state Governors. It may be the best office to learn executive skills needed in the Presidency.

IMHO, KBH’s political career is winding down and I’d much rather see conservatives who are moving up gaining experience in the office of Governor.

Build for the future, so to speak.

KBH is the past… at least as far as my vote is concerned. This nonsense demonstrates why.

This little flap seems to not just be a Texas thing: http://tiny.cc/WBHEH

Considering the recent poll of Republican primary voters that showed KBH ahead of our Governor by 56-31, it appears that this blog thread is more about creating a campaign issue than anything substantive (not to say folks haven’t made some good points). It also shows that the effort to dig up dirt on our Senator wasn’t successful.

We love strong women in Texas, and I was absolutely thrilled when Sen. McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. What a breath of fresh air! But I’m sure Alaskans are a bit like Texans, we don’t like people ‘messin’ with our politics. Of course, elections are about the future and our Senator has got a lot of young, tech-savvy folks behind her campaign.

In any case, the original article was obviously tongue-in-cheek humor, as was the follow-on posting by the campaign. There is a difference between humor and a ‘story.’ This one is much ado about nothing… IMHO.