Video: GOP candidates for governor spar in The Belo Debate

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[jsdjason]

"DALLAS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and political activist Debra Medina ganged up on front-running Gov. Rick Perry on Friday in the final televised debate before the March 2 Republican primary."

Medina won the online vote asking who won the debate with 97% of the vote.

[jsdjason]

Call me a nutjob, but I do think that Ron Paul makes a very good argument FOR legalization. After all, prohibition of drugs is government suppression of a person’s freedom. We also have laws that prohibit murder, and everyone agrees that their are justifiable reasons for doing so, but you know what, it’s handled by the states. Why shouldn’t drug laws be handled by the state?

Paul says that alcohol and nicotine are just as much a drug as marijuana and I agree. Should be prohibit alcohol and nicotine? Many people will counter that people should be free to drink or smoke a cigarette, but that they shouldn’t be allowed by the state to smoke marijuana because marijuana is a “gateway” drug. Well fine, but let’s have a discussion at the state level before we spend $100s of billions of dollars on the drug war.

And who is benefitting the most from our failed drug wars? You guessed it, the drug cartels. So really, the drug war is a “gateway” to a breakdown of the border. I’m just saying that we SHOULD discuss the drug war as Medina has said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufekh_SwZd0

[berdie]

Call me a cynic, but politicians seldom say anything “CLEARLY”. It is sort of like a doctor learning to scribble a prescripion. Ms. Medina is new to the game and not so scribbly as KBH or Perry. You took her comments one way..I took them another.

I don’t see her as the clear choice at this moment. Like I said..I want more info on her. I’m not looking for a “Scott Brown Moment”. Perry is not Ted. Just because Ms. Medina is new and unknown does not necessarily make her my choice.

Thanks for the link and have a great evening (or morning)!

(Just for the record, I would love the revenue and convenience of casinos in Texas...but I’m not gonna hold my breath.)

[Nextrush]

Sarah Palin will be campaigning for Rick Perry.

I wonder if she knows about Perry’s ill fated plan to force girls to the get the HPV vaccine which assumes they will have sex as teenagers.

I don’t think that’s Sarah’s agenda.

Perry took pharma industry money laundered through a group called Women In Politics.

Perry backed off the plan when opposition rose up.

[paudio]

Medina won the online vote asking who won the debate with 97% of the vote.

An online vote with that much of number is more likely to be influenced by supporters voting multiple times rather than a snapshot of whom people think won the debate.

[zeugma]

Texas struggled with gambling. Do you really think most voters will vote for a governor that promotes drug legalization?

Do you think that legalization is even remotely possible? I don't, so it's a non-issue. We need to restrain our state government lest we become the same kind of economic and social basket case we see in CA.

Personally, I favor legalization because I disfavor the assaults the war on drugs has made on our Constitution even more. They've used the WOD to assault the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th amendments for decades now and I'm tired of reading supreme court decisions that further erode our rights in the name of an unworkable project that was demonstrated decisively during prohibition to lead to more crime and a bigger police state.

Legalization won't make me take drugs, any more than the ready availability of alcohol has made me a drunkard. I tire of the nanny state and its ever-increasing scope.

[jsdjason]

I like your post. I’m beginning to wonder what the negative effects of legalization would be if the current WOD is having little effect arguably. Prohibition on alcohol did nothing to stop alcohol consumption. All it did was make the mob richer. Although they operate in foreign countries, the drug cartels are a modern day mafia.

[berdie]

“do you think legalization is even a remote possibility?”

Like you, no I don't. I am not arguing the pros and cons of legalization. Or the nanny state, which I abhor.

I am looking at the comments made on the subject. To me they are the issue. Ms. Medina could very well alienate the conservative voter base in the state by even “entertaining” the thought. And by doing so, we could end up with KBH. I don't want that.

I am simply looking at the logistics of her campaign and the ideology of the majority of her voting base.

As I have stated, I have not decided to vote/not vote for Ms. Medina. I just want more info than what she has said at the two televised debates I have seen and what is on her web site.

[patriot08]

For starters look up Debra Medina's column 'Latinos and the GOP'

'It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?' Debra Medina

'Ignore them', Mrs Medina? Since when? What more do you want? Or shouldn't we ask?

Medina ad:

“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)

She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”

No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.

She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.

So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.

No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.

The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties

*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422

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