"I may just be a goofy old guitar player, but even I know better than to go for a La Raza Truther!"
Posted on 02/20/2010 9:59:07 PM PST by pissant
FORT WORTH -- Marvin Bahnman doesn't like where the country is headed.
He believes in small government, fiscal responsibility and conservatism.
So he carried a sign that said "You can't fix stupid, but you can vote them out" outside the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards, where a get-out-the-vote rally Saturday drew supporters of the Tea Party and 912 Fort Worth grassroots movements.
"I'm not a Republican," said Bahnman, 74, of Fort Worth. "I am a conservative."
Inside the coliseum, decorated with candidate signs, flags and balloons, dozens of candidates on the March 2 Republican primary ballot spoke to hundreds gathered there.
For many, Saturday was a chance to hear from some candidates who feel the way they do -- tired of big government and career politicians.
"I'm concerned about the direction the country is going with freedoms, spending and big government," said Daniel Esparza, 45, of Fort Worth. "We need people who will bring us back to following the Constitution."
Former Secretary of State Roger Williams kicked off the rally, hosted by the United Conservative Coalition of Texas, which represents the Tea Party, 912 and other conservative groups in North Texas.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
You might want to filter out the nonsense and not only copy and paste the talking points of the side you support.
i saw kays nasty tv ad...made me think of dirty dems
"I may just be a goofy old guitar player, but even I know better than to go for a La Raza Truther!"
Her big problems are inexperience and the fact that she's such an unknown quantity. It's hard to read someone like this because they can recreate themselves as Obama did (positive), Kerry attempted (failed), and Palin was (negative). The unknown types like Palin can often get crushed as easily and quickly as Obama was recreated as some moderate....... because if your opponent can shape the perception people have of you, well that sort of sucks.
Her assertion that she doesn’t have an opinion because it’s not a state issue is outrageous. Like any thinking American can have no opinion about 3,000 fellow citizens being murdered on American soil 8 years after the fact?
Either she is a truther and doesn’t want to admit it, or she isn’t and didn’t want to alienate her truther nutjob base. Either way she is unfit for office.
Medina proved that she was not truthful on Beck’s show and that she doesn’t have a good grasp on reality when she started claiming that she was attacked by her “opposition,” and then went off the deep end by giving us her theories about 9-11.
Watch the second video, here:
http://www.bigjolly.com/sections/texas/274-debra-medina-on-nyc-fire-and-police-casualties.html
I completely agree.
What theories of 9-11 is she advocating other than that there are people that have questions out there? Is she wrong? There are people out there that are conservative, independent and liberal with questions. It's a snowball effect where she's now on the defensive about something that is perceptive and the more she talks the more she puts herself in a corner. She's doesn't pretend to be an expert on 9-11 and if you ask “why” long enough you get answers that sound like this, especially from someone who's inexperienced. This is no different than asking Palin what the Bush Doctrine was. Or asking Bush what the capital of Denmark is. She shouldn't even have gone down that road.
Well, we don't need to worry about it, she's crushed. Besides, in the good ole boy club we call the Republican Party folks like her and Palin don't have much of a chance against the McCains and Perry's who are established, networked, power brokers within the party and paid their dews. Enjoy-
I’m concerned about the La Raza thing.
If Medina has made promises to them, I’m done..the end.
I’m searching the web trying to find a anything, haven’t so far.
Are there questions around if we needed to drop a A-bomb on Japan?
Are there questions surrounding the assassination of JFK?
Are there questions surrounding our actions at GITMO?
It doesn't matter where you stand, the answer is yes, some people have questions on certain aspects of every one of these and there are people an all sides of the political fence that have at least in their mind questions about 9-11. She's actually pointing out the obvious, and that doesn't make her support or personally believe in something. There are people who question the motive for the Iraq war.......... Your reasoning is something from a Monty Python video. Maybe she's a witch too?
***Her fault is that she made a comment that is in reality a "matter of fact." People have questions. She attempted to be neutral and non offensive in that statement, not alienating those that do have questions. Then, when asked about the details, she begins to babble and digs a hole because she's not an expert on this nor prepared for every twist and turn that the questions will take her. -IMHO
I still haven’t found any La Raza connections to Medina.
I found this:
A fierce opponent of federal gun laws, Medina packs a Springfield 9 mm handgun in a zippered case in her car. She believes landowners along the Texas-Mexico border have the right to arm themselves against unauthorized immigrants and wants to post the Texas National Guard there.
http://www.sacultura.com/Medina_may_be_spoiler_in_GOP_race.html?c=y&viewAllComments=y
It’s a hispanic paper, it doesn’t seem like it’s a statement that would draw La Raza types.
Ouch.
she lost a whole heck of a lot of support over that 42 second gaffe in the Glenn Beck interview.
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I didnt see the interview, nor do i live in Texas, but i have read your posts and know you are a reasonable poster.
So, is she a truther or did she just mess up in the interview?
She keeps a gun in a bag in her car and does not have a CCL to carry one on her person?
Her ads are very....Washington DC Democrat.
KBH makes my skin crawl.
pissant, truther or not; she is not qualified by a long shot. She wants the prize without doing any of the hard work.
Btw, why is she still running? :)
I do see that KBH has attended a La Raza convention 2003
in Austin.
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Howard Dean spoke at the convention, and I can imagine that they had slightly different messages, to say the least:
“Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, also addressed the crowd, saying President Bush’s tax cuts and his education initiative, No Child Left Behind, will increase accountability of public schools. That in turn will help Latino students, she said.”
http://www.burntorangereport.com/mt/archives/2003/07/la_raza_in_texa.html
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I still haven’t connected Medina to La Raza or see where La Raza says they are backing her. Still searching tho...
I was wondering, even if you don’t like Medina, hate her even—is it fair to post the La Raza stuff without backing up that claim?
It seems a bit libelous to me.
I just want to know one way or another if she is truly connected to La Raza.
She already screwed up her campaign, why add un-backed claims to the heap?
I absolutely can’t vote for Medina if she’s truly connected to La Raza.
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