Posted on 02/11/2010 9:15:01 PM PST by Slyscribe
Tea party activist Debra Medina grabbed headlines when she surged in the polls to a virtual tie with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for second in the race for the Texas GOP gubernatorial nomination behind incumbent Gov. Rick Perry. But Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey says, “I’d say that Medina’s hit the apex of her political career today.”
Morrissey explains:
Today, Glenn Beck suffers heartbreak when Medina more or less cops to being a 9/11 Truther
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...
This was a very weird day in political land, it was as quick a self destruct as pushing the button on a suicide vest, instant.
This is one Texan that did not know of her Truther involvement. I have to say that she did a really poor job with her statements to Glenn Beck. Let’s just say that she lost my vote...(too bad, I actually thought she was with the Tea Party movement - beware of false prophets).
Back to Perry... Hutchison has no chance! (I hope).
LOL!
This better teach everyone a lesson to vet the candidates as people from the Tea Party were getting a pass with little to no vetting. We could get some Dems pretending to be Tea Party and Republican, get elected and vote Dem. It would make sense for them to try to win that way.
Ask yourself...who benefits from discrediting Medina in this way? This is her real position on 9/11 ... you just have to read to the bottom of the article. This is a hit piece pure and simple...establishment republicans in Perry’s camp are obviously starting to feel some heat.
Medina Campaign Responds to Glenn Beck Interview:
I was asked a question on the Glenn Beck show today regarding my thoughts on the so-called 9/11 truth movement. I have never been involved with the 9/11 truth movement, and there is no doubt in my mind that Muslim terrorists flew planes into those buildings on 9/11. I have not seen any evidence nor have I ever believed that our government was involved or directed those individuals in any way. No one can deny that the events on 9/11 were a tragedy for all Americans and especially those families who lost loved ones.
The question surprised me because it’s not relevant to this race or the issues facing Texans. This campaign has always been about private property rights and state sovereignty. It is focused on the issues facing Texans. It is not a vehicle for the 9-11 truth movement or any other group.
The real underlying question here, though, is whether or not people have the right to question our government. I think the fact that people are even asking questions on this level gets to the incredible distrust career politicians have fostered by so clearly taking their direction from special interests instead of the people, whether it’s Rick Perry and his HPV mandate or Kay Hutchison and voting for the bank bailout. It is absolutely the right and duty of a free people to question their government. Texas does not need another politician who tells you what you want to hear, then violates your liberties and steals your property anyway. I fully expect to be questioned and to be held accountable as Governor, and that’s the underlying issue here: should people be questioning their government. And the answer is yes, they should be.
You’re very right! I’m just glad that she showed up on Beck’s show and showed her true colors.
You sir, are just confusing the issue. I heard what she had to say in “real time”. I do not need any clarification, thank you... You on the other hand, seem to be way too tied to her campaign instead of realizing truth when you hear it.
I didn’t know Medina was a truther, but there are plenty of other red flags which I’ve posted about since she threw her sombrero into the ring:
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.
Medina is about as qualified to be Governor as zero was to be President- want to re-visit how that is working out? She’s a Libertarian running on the Republican ticket. She is supported by the Ron Paul worship crowd and she herself has acted in the Ron Paul worship capacity. She has demonstrated a lack of knowledge about Texas law and current ballot initiatives.
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
lol— they look like hershey kisses
Sorry. I posted to the wrong person.
“This better teach everyone a lesson to vet the candidates as people from the Tea Party were getting a pass with little to no vetting.”
-—I keep hearing we need to vet people. I think that’s exactly what happened yesterday. We the People ARE the vetters.
Glen Beck was the vetter. Look how close we were to the primary and it just came out. She was getting a pass on here and in Texas by a lot of people that saw she was from the Tea Party movement and that immediately put the stamp of approval on her.
In this case, ‘We The People’ did a louzy job of vetting her. She had no experience to be Governor of a large state which should have been the first clue that you don’t run for Governor but a lesser office. Then her promises on taxes are not something the Governor can do on their own.
We should be vetting candidates period. Dems used the Blue Dog label to get some ‘conservatives’ elected who were not even a little conservative in 2006 and 2008. What makes anyone think they won’t use the Tea Party this time. There is already one group using the Tea Party name to collect donations who are not conservative.
Voters.
People who believed "her real position" - the boilerplate that was coming from her campaign people, but then got to hear her actual thoughts on the issue coming from her own head.
People can believe what they want to believe, but I would never vote for anybody who even entertains the idea that the Bush Administration had a hand in the planning and execution of the 911 attacks. In the face of the complete and utter lack of evidence for this accusation, anybody still clinging to the possibility is an idiot and not worthy of my vote.
Ed Morrissey hears voices. Beck didn't sound heartbroken by her stupidity, he sounded amused.
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