Rick Perry vs World

15 January 2010

Has Peggy Noonan lost it?

This week's column was better than those that immediately preceded it. I know she's always had her own style, but lately it's just stream-of-consciousness rambling.

Posted by Evan @ 01/15/10 06:31 AM | Comments (0)

My brief thoughts on the debate

* I thought both Perry and KBH let personal animity affect their lines at points.

* From a strategic standpoint, Perry is ahead, so Kay has limited opportunities to make up ground. She didn't do it tonight.

* I heard Kay articulate a possible message in her closing statement (I'm running to prepare Texas for 20 years from now) but that was the first time I heard it during the debate. I have heard her mention this as the rationale for her candidacy before, but if that's her message, she might want to try to make sure we don't miss it so easily.

* Medina didn't attack either one.

* The "social media" angle was dumb.

* I felt a little bad for the girl who replied snootily "That's Johns Hopkins University...there's an s." You're young, we forgive you.

* Perry got a little flustered over the number of jobs and got off his "Texas has the strongest economy in the nation" talking point. At some point, he was doing a Bush-like smirk, which may have hurt him as large parts were split screen between Perry and KBH (was there a 3rd person on that stage?) On the other hand, I'd score him as having slightly won overall without the smirk.

* Kay Bailey's response about Roe v. Wade was one of the most tortured logic statements I've ever heard. I understand why she doesn't want to admit that she supports Roe v Wade, but I think her answer made every single person watching uncomfortable.

Posted by Evan @ 01/15/10 05:33 AM | Comments (1)

Bill White's money

Bill White has raised $2.5 million in the last 6 months

Cash on Hand: $5.5 million (mostly due to transfers from his mayoral acct, etc)

Of course, he could probably write himself a check at any time if he needed too. It's worth noting that he has pretty much unified the establishment of state officeholders in his court.

Posted by Evan @ 01/15/10 03:20 AM | Comments (0)

14 January 2010

That's Bill White

That sounds like the Bill White I know, and the Bill White that Katherine Gregor at the Austin Chronicle now knows:

Is it politically possible to advocate statewide reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions while running for governor of Texas? Houston Mayor Bill White, now campaigning for the job as a Democrat, recently answered that question by ... not mentioning greenhouse gases.

Posted by Evan @ 01/14/10 08:22 AM | Comments (0)

Today is debate day

Debate is tonight at 7pm in Denton.

Christy Hoppe writes up the gender angle, which is really two sides of a coin for the two main candidates. Perhaps the more interesting angle is the one she mentioned in passing at the end of the article: Debra Medina.

Which way does Medina go? Does she attack one more than the other? If Kay tries to get to the right of Rick, does Medina make one of them look centrist? heh.

Posted by Evan @ 01/14/10 07:50 AM | Comments (0)

Shami criticizes White, opens 8th campaign office

Democrat Farouk Shami criticizes Bill White while opening his eighth campaign office in El Paso:

Farouk Shami, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, criticized primary election rival Bill White on Wednesday -- calling the former Houston mayor a poor businessman who does not understand the pressing economic problems of Texas.

"Mr. Bill White's city of Houston -- which is my city -- is almost on the verge of bankruptcy," Shami said. "It's in a deficit of $103 million just three days ago. Mr. Bill White borrowed $200 million just three and a half weeks ago. Mr. Bill White claims he knows business. What kind of business?"

As I said before, If I were Shami, I'd go on the air. He doesn't have much time to get a message out, and the early things people would have heard from the media aren't good.

If you click the link, Shami has decided to go with Farouk for governor. I frankly wonder about that. Shami ain't exactly Smith, but since it seems like the candidate might have wanted to play down his religion, you might think he might want to play down his non-nativeness as well. My intuition would be that Farouk seems stranger than Shami would on a yard sign, but I might be wrong.

Posted by Evan @ 01/14/10 06:40 AM | Comments (1)

Waco Trib calls on Kay to resign

WacoTrib says Kay should resign:

While U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has mounted an aggressive gubernatorial campaign for a post she has long coveted, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is increasingly questioning the senator about her commitment to duties she swore to uphold in Washington, D.C.

Initially, Hutchison said she'd leave the Senate last autumn to devote herself to what promises to be a grueling, combative campaign across one of the largest, most populous states in the nation. Then she said she'd stay till the health care debate was resolved.

This week, Hutchison reaffirmed a more nuanced and recent position -- that she won't leave the Senate till her March 2 primary battle with Perry is decided.
...
We don't at all argue with Hutchison's right to run for governor. She and Perry offer Texas Republicans a terrific chance to debate major issues facing our state. But we believe she needs to cede Senate responsibilities to someone who can give this crucial job the time and attention it obviously rates.

I disagree with the Trib, but beyond that it seems to me like an odd time for KBH to resign.

Also, given that she has pledged to stay until the end of the health care fight, she'd be breaking her promise if she resigned now.

Posted by Evan @ 01/14/10 06:07 AM | Comments (0)

Jack Kemp (deservedly) gained alot of votes post-humously today

Do you get the feeling alot of folks in Iowa and New Hampshire now think they voted for Jack Kemp or George Bush and not Pat Robertson?

Posted by Evan @ 01/14/10 01:47 AM | Comments (0)

13 January 2010

Unspinning the spin

Peggy Fikac does the obligatory pre-debate writeup for Thursday's showdown. It mostly recounts the 2006 debates. What caught my attention was:

GOP consultant Mark Sanders said the candidate to watch is Medina: "She is the wild card. If she performs well, she could throw the gubernatorial election into a runoff ... It'll take more than just the debate, but she could be the anti-Washington, anti-incumbent candidate that many voters are looking for."

The bolded part is inaccurate. Fikac should know better, given that Sanders has worked for an independent in 2006 and for a Democrat in 2002. How is he a GOP consultant? Should we term Mark MacKinnon and Matthew Dowd as Democratic consultants?

A few paragraphs later Fikac inserts this:

The [Carole Strayhorn] misstep wasn't a game-changer. And neither was Bell's performance, praised as a strong one. "After the debate, we had a rocket attached to us. We just ran out of time and money," Stanford recalled.

Stanford, of course, was Chris Bell's consultant. As such, he has a vested interested in having people believe that what he said is true.

At best, that's some hard spin. Chris Bell himself said two months before the election: "You could be a corpse and get 31 percent as the Democratic nominee just about any office."

Chris Bell got 29.8% of the vote. That's some rocket!

Posted by Evan @ 01/13/10 03:48 PM | Comments (0)

Perry rejects federal money on grounds of too many strings attached

Texas Watchdog has Perry's speech rejecting fed money for education as well as the Democrats' response. We'll see what Hutchison does with this.

Posted by Evan @ 01/13/10 03:14 PM | Comments (0)

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