You can’t get around the fact that Madina was the only conservative in the race and Sarah didn’t endorse her. Nor can you get around the fact that Sarah’s endorsement and support would have helped her.
Election morning Jeff Bolton on KLIF was pushing hard for Madina but huge numbers of callers were scared that a vote for her would just give the nomination to Hutchison. They held their noses and voted for Perry because he was a little more conservative than Hutchison.
I was driving a get out the vote van that day picking up Madina voters and driving them to the polls. More than half of them told me a husband or wife would have liked to vote for Madina but were scared of letting Hutchison get the nomination.
Sarah’s endorsement would have helped eliminate those fears. Sarah’s endorsement is more powerful than you seem to think. Here in Texas she has a loyal following.
Nobody can convince me that her endorsement of the conservative in the race wouldn’t have helped the conservative. Sarah’s endorsement carries a lot of weight here.
WAS she the only conservative? Seems to me she first took a hard stance on immigration, and then she flip-flopped stating that Texas couldn’t do without our productive neighbors coming in here illegally. That’s a serious flip flop...showing she would say something and then do another.
And then she couldn’t even handle the 9/11 Truther moment? Because she wasn’t ‘prepared’ for it? Of course then there’s support for Ron Paul, and visits with whacko Alex Jones on his show. Neither of which show me a STRONG candidate.
And YES, there was always the chance Medina would cause the election to be handed to Hutchison, ALWAYS.
Don’t get me wrong, there are many admirable things about Debra Medina. But I am never ready to just turn something over to somebody on their ‘words’. They have to show me a clear record of doing what they said they would do.
And thirdly I just wasn’t buying her sales and consumption tax as opposed to property tax. I deliberately chose my lake cabin in a county with extremely low property taxes that operates very efficiently to keep them low. Do I want to change that to a sales tax and consumption tax regulated by the state? NO, I don’t. I have more input into my local taxing authority.
I was driving a get out the vote van that day picking up Madina voters and driving them to the polls.
Curious. Was there a lot of voters needing rides to the polls? It would seem to me with the 10 day or so of early voting that most voters needing transportation could get to a polling location at some point during that time. Just curious of your experience.