[WillaJohns]

For us non-Texans, what does this mean?

[Slyfox]

'Blowhard-and-legend-in-his-own-mind' Ron Kirk is squeaking
by a geography teacher who thinks George W. Bush is an idiot.

[VinnyTex]

Ron Kirk for the most part is a commie. Another GOP sweep in November.

[Alissa]

Nothing - it's a runoff between one Hispanic Democrat against a Black Democrat! It's not the General Election. Whoever wins this election will face the Republican candidate (Cornyn) for the Senate seat (Phil Gramm's).

[Bubba_Leroy]

The democRAT party has been pushing hard for Kirk.

Their "dream team" is Kirk (a black) for Senator and Sanchez (an hispanic) for Governor. That way all of the black racists (i.e., blacks who will vote for a candidate based solely on the color of his skin) and hispanic racists (hispanics who will vote for a candidate based solely on the color of his skin) will be motivated to get out and vote.

[altura]

Even us Texans don't know what this means.

I mean, I would have voted in this run-off if I could have figured out which candidate which have been easier for the Republican Senatorial candidate, John Cornyn, to beat.

But I couldn't. It's basically the Black vote versus the Mexican vote. I think the Mexican population is larger (maybe - maybe, I should know), but not as likely to vote.

Kirk is more of a mainstream guy ... he was a fairly innocuous mayor of Dallas; the main thing I have against him is that he is a dem and we can't afford any more democrat senators.

gotta gid rid of The Daschle.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

For us non-Texans, what does this mean?

It may mean we will have a real problem in November. The Rats will have an Hispanic running for Governor, a conservative white for Lt Gov. and a black for Senator.

We will have an incumbent running for Governor who has little record and vetoed some legislation two years ago that he can't even explain the reason for. A dam^ fool for Lt Governor and a very fine but little known running for Senate.

Pray for us, we will need it.

[HHFi]

I've posted these links on other Kirk-related sites, but they obviously need to be spread around more. These columns on Kirk are by a liberal columnist for the Dallas alternative weekly. If this is what he thinks of Kirk, you can imagine what a Republican taxpayer/property owner like me thinks of him. I STRONGLY urge other Republicans to read them, to know what we'll be facing:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2002-03-14/schutze.html/1/index.html

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2002-04-04/schutze.html/1/index.html