[GOPcapitalist]

Texas Ping!

BTW - I've been told that this Bill Green who Rick Perry helped is a flaming homosexual in addition to being a liberal Democrat environmentalist.

[jf55510]

I am so pissed off at Rick Perry right now, I would get banned for saying what I really thought of him. There needs to be a draft Greg Abbott or Jerry Patterson for governor campaign. They have the conservative leadership that can fix this joke that is the Republican Party of Texas.

[WOSG]

Wow.

I was going to write something very similar, David Rogers did it for me.

"The irony here is enormous. Perry recruited Paul Green to avenge the loss of Perry appointee Xavier Rodriguez, a self-described moderate with no prior judicial experience appointed solely to allow Perry to claim the mantle of "Hispanic outreach" in his contest against the first ever Hispanic Democratic candidate for Governor. The result was the defeat of Ernest Garcia, an experienced judge whose conservatism has never been questioned - a judge, who, had Perry appointed him in Rodriguez's place in 2002, Smith would not have challenged."

"Smith's campaign manager, in fact, appeared as a surrogate for Garcia, and actively worked to promote Garcia's candidacy across the 24-county region.

I know. I managed the Smith campaign. And Ernest Garcia is still the best man for the Republican nomination in the Third Court, place four."


I saw David on Tuesday, when I went to what I though would be a 'victory party' for Smith - turned into a wake. He put his heart and soul into the Steven Smith race and was quite emotional to see him and Ernest go down. It was a heartbreaking loss. I am still angry about the loss of Ernest. I gave him money, handed out some flyers (not enough I guess), and had his bumper sticker. I told everyone that he was right for the job.

This race should not have been close, but Perry's autodialing to 'vote Green' created a wave of ignorance that
washed over Ernest Garcia.

CAN WE UN-NOMINATE A CANDIDATE LIKE BILL GREEN???

[JohnnyZ]

I think this analysis looks pretty accurate. And it would have been easier on everyone if Smith had been given a pass to the general election. However, blaming everything on Perry is not fair. If Smith wants to primary Perry's nominee, Perry could support primarying Smith. It's not his fault that Bill had the same last name as Paul. The Smith-Green race is more proof, in my opinion, that Anglos do better than Hispanics in GOP primaries. Smith could beat incumbent Hernandez, but as an incumbent himself loses to challenger Paul Green. How can anyone now say Smith's win was due to an overriding preference for his Hopwood, etc, fame?

Overall, a relatively good showing for Hispanic Republicans.

Anyone know what happened in the Rondon-McCally race, the other Hispanic incumbent that was primaried?

[DrewsDad]

We can blame Perry for ousting Smith and unintentionally ousting Garcia, but the real problem lies with the Republican Party structure.

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."

The state and local party officials need to do a much better job of informing the Republican voters. I'll give the Travis County Chairman credit for spotting the name-confusion possibility and doing an automated call supporting Garcia and pointing out that Bill Green is not a Republican.

Maybe someone can share what happened in Bell County which supported both Garcia and Smith.

Now, WHY did the other counties fail to communicate this information to the voters?