Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams
Posted on 11/30/2010 10:52:59 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Several Texas conservatives are vowing to make Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) pay for her primary challenge to popular Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
The four-term senator hasn’t announced whether she’ll run for reelection, but, no matter her decision, Tea Party activists are preparing to run their own candidates.
Because of that, GOP activists and strategists suspect retirement will prove the more attractive option for the senator.
Hutchison lost a contentious primary to Perry in March, and her decision to challenge the sitting governor saw her go from one of the state’s most popular politicians to someone struggling for favor within her own party.
Austin-based Tea Party activist Dean Wright said he anticipates as many as six to eight candidates challenging Hutchison from the right if she attempts to stick it out in 2012.
“She’s burned some bridges,” Wright said. “And she hasn’t embraced the grassroots.”
When asked for comment, Hutchison’s office only said: “The senator has not yet announced her plans.”
In the gubernatorial primary, one of Perry’s most effective tactics was to paint Hutchison as too far to the left for the Texas GOP. Her vote in favor of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) proved Perry’s trump card. His campaign tagged the senator with the moniker “Kay Bailout Hutchison” and successfully branded her as a Washington insider. She lost by more than 20 points.
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I never liked Kay Baily politics when I lived in Indiana and now that I live in TX, I like her politics even less.....
Kay and I got to be friends when I worked for her nearly 30 years ago when she first ran for Congress.
That said, a lot has changed in the interim and it’s quite time for her to retire and fade away.
Cornyn isn’t up for re-election until 2014. KBH first.
Conservatives need to coalesce around one candidate. Having that many in the primary is a recipe for defeat.
lol.
I’m not sure how they got the idea that Perry is popular, he was just less RINO than her.
First order of business is to dump Straus from the Speakership.
I was going to say the same thing. It bears repeating. They are all cut from the same cloth. Worthless, everyone one of them.
She LIED!
She said she would resign to run for governor. She didn’t!
She LIED!
Vote her into retirement.
Yeah I remember his ads from the last cycle. Walking through a field wearing a denim shirt looking very folksy, one of the people type stuff. Too bad for him 2014 isn’t looking a whole lot like 2008 at this point.
The guy also embarassed himself with these midterms and trying to undercut conservatives every step of the way. He even called out DeMint after it was over with for his support of the conservative challengers. Tried to get assurances from DeMint he wouldn’t do it again.
Right; eight is way too many. Tea Party folks need to organize some sort of pre-primary to winnow down the conservative options. Running a bunch against Hutchison will just result in fratricide and she'll get re-elected.
Maybe I just believed her lies, but I think that KBH started out as a pretty good conservative. Then she gradually moved left. Further and further left.
She failed to see that the mood was changing, and now she finds herself hanging out there on a leftist branch which she mistakenly thought would make her more popular.
Sure, Rick Perry is also a RINO, but she has become far worse.
Good riddance. She should have resigned after losing in the primary to Gov. Goodhair. Stay home and bake cookies. She always sounds like she is running low on energy. If she doesn’t have the stomach for the fight, she should take her toys and go home.
We aren’t going to replace her because she ran against Perry. We are going to replace her because she is a rino sellout!
Amen. Texans, call your State Reps and tell them NO to Straus.
No more RINOs!
Conservatives want to punish her for running against Good Hair? This is analysis invented in a newsroom and devoid of any connection to reality. Yes, we want to get rid of her, but we would have liked a real conservative instead of Good Hair. Unfortunately, she is even worse than Good Hair, and Good Hair’s good luck was compounded by running against “Elmer Fudd” White in the final. Conservatives would like to get rid of most of the statewide officials - Texas doesn’t need RINOs or Semi-RINOs.
Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams
What TX really needs is a Bruce Alger Republican, and he is still living at 92.
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