[dusttoyou]

When the TV station would not let Deb participate in the first debate a lot of us complained to the station (KERA Dallas?) and got her on the next debates, because she was sounding very nicely conservative. Then many Texas voters started to listen to Medina and she zoomed in the polls until she pulled the wildeyed Ron Paul act and “hinted” at being a Truther, which sank Ms. Medina like a rock.

Texas and Perry are conservative, not libertarian, much to the chagrin of many of the anti-Perry posters here.

[Raider Sam]

I agree. And on the conservative front, specifically social conservatism, I think there are two valid ways to be a social conservative. I think Texas, as a voting bloc, is more of the populist strand, where they are conservative and want the government to push traditional ideals. Then some are socially conservative, who dont want the government involved in pushing ideals, whether traditional or “progressive.” In both cases, you have socially conservative people, but both can claim the other is not “conservative.” I think this is a big issue that is keeping the conservative movement from coalescing.